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Don’t Look to 1903s Germany to Understand American Populism. Look to 1830s New York Revivals Instead.
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Operation Barbarossa Saw Millions of POW Executions, Civilian Murders, and Starvation Deaths
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Pistol Duels Existed Across the 19th-Century World, But Only the Chaos of the American West Produced Gunfighters
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Rome Definitively Eclipsed Greece in 197 BC By Making the Alexandrian Phalanx/Cavalry Obsolete
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Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes
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Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade?ads)
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Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State
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MacArthur’s Plans to Drop 50 Nuclear Bombs During the Korean War
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The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today
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Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant
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Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended
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How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer
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How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship
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Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands?
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How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War
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How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader
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Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?
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From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb
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Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2
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D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944
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Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides
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Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island
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The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War
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The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve?
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A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause
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How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing
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Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages?
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How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal
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Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct
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The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them?
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Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US
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Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
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Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways?
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What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole
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Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball
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How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco
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Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road
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Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works)
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The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers
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Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers?
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The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon
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Everyday Life for the 500K German POWs House in America During World War Two
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The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States
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Owning Land Was The Best – and Usually Only – Way to Be Rich in the Ancient World
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Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks
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When American Gilded Elite Bought Up English Country Houses, It Create an Epic Transatlantic Clash of Cultures
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The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet
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How Did Gold Beat Out Every Other Precious Metal To Become Humanity’s Dominant Currency For the Last 2,600 Years?
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The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic
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200 Years Before the French Revolution, German Peasants Tried to Overthrow The Holy Roman Empire
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What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption
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Did Orson Welles’s 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Really Cause a Mass Panic?
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A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Water
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The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?
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A Pre-WWI French Philosopher Was More Popular Than Elvis and Possibly Entered the US Into the Great War
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While Starving at Besieged Leningrad, Scientists Hid Drought-Resistant Crop Seeds That Could Prevent Future Famines
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Surviving Nearly 2 Years of Shipwreck on a South Pacific Island in the 1880s
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How Did 450 Boers Defeat 15,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 9: The End of North African Piracy and the Beginning of American Global Naval Hegemony
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When Did Americans Become Americans? 1945, 1865, 1787, or 1776?
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 8: The Second Barbary War (1815)
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How Much of a Nation’s Fate is Bound Up In Its Geography?
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Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 7: An Uneasy Peace -- The Interbellum Period and the War of 1812
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The Scramble for More Aircraft Carriers in WW2 Meant Retrofitting Cruisers Into These Sorts of Ships
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Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 6: Swashbuckling Ship Battles and 500-Mile Desert Marches Won the First Barbary War
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Knights Could Still Be Found on English Battlefields in the 1640s. What Were They Doing There?
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 5: The Destruction of the USS Philadelphia
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The Jewish Confederates
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 4: The First Barbary War (1801-05)
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Was The Vietnam War Unwinnable?
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 3: The Barbary States and Their 300-Year Reign of Mediterranean Piracy
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What a Modern-Day Stonemason Can Tell Us About Hand Building 13th- Century Gothic Cathedrals and Carving Gargoyles
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 2: The British Origins of the US Navy
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The Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 Permanently Altered Siege Warfare, Middle Eastern Demographics, and Global Trade
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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 1: America Wanted to Take 1776 to the High Seas. North African Pirates Disagreed.
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New Series Launches Tomorrow: Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (with James Early)
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How Civil War Vets Continued Living Despite Being Double, Triple, or Even Quadruple Amputees
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What’s the Difference Between a Pirate, a Privateer, and a Naval Officer? In the 1700s, Very Little
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After Genghis Khan Conquered the Earth, Kublai Khan Conquered the Seas
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Aesop’s Fables and Whether They Were Written By an Ugly, Enslaved “Barbarian” Who Discretely Mocked His Masters
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"Thermopylae, the “300” Spartans, and the 26 Other Battles Fought There Over the Last 2,400 Years
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: How a Habsburg Archduke Set Up a Kingdom in the New World in the 1860s
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First-Hand Account of Hiroshima: Before, During, and After the Atomic Bomb Drop
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America’s Professional Sports Grew From Farm Teams to Multi-Billion Dollar Franches Thanks to the Harlem Globetrotters Founder
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Why Did Presidents Seem Incredibly Rich Yet Were Completely Broke Most of the Time?
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A 1,300 History of the Middle East in Seven Religious Wars
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When Good Ideas Were Bad Medicine: Why Vitamin C and Handwashing was Rejected by the Medical Establishment
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Appleton Oaksmith: The Confederate Blockade Runner Who Became Lincoln’s Public Enemy #1
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The Bible Triggered Two Communications Revolutions: The Codex and the Printing Press
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Steering an Aerial Plywood Box Through Enemy Fire: The Glider Pilots of WW2
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Why Few Presidents Had Beards, And Only One Had a Mullet
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How Much Did Average Germans Know About the Holocaust During World War Two?
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Carthage Lost the 2nd Punic War from Hannibal’s Logistics Failure and His Brother’s Bad Strategy
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The Real Robin Hood May Have Been an Anglo-Saxon Hitman Who Killed an English King
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Civilization Owes Its Existence to the Horse
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Charles Cowlam: The Civil War Con-Man Who Received Presidential Pardons From Both Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
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The Extent of Soviet Infiltration Into Depression and Cold War America
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America’s First Crime Boss Was Female Immigrant-Turned-Criminal Mastermind
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The War Under No-Man’s Land: Military Mining and Tunnel Combat in World War One
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Eisenhower’s Logistics and Diplomatic Nightmare: Planning and Executing D-Day
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