History That Doesn't Suck
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205: Total War on the Home Front: Victory Gardens, Volunteering, and the Double V
May 11, 20261h 2m
Bonus: “Messy Tales,” an Excerpt from the Prof’s book, Been There, Done That
May 4, 202634 min
204: The Holocaust: Anne Frank, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, & Auschwitz
Apr 27, 20261h 6m
203: The Holocaust: Killing Squads, Ghettos, & Gas Chambers
Apr 13, 20261h 8m
202: Holocaust Prologue with US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director, Sara J. Bloomfield
Mar 30, 202648 min
201: A Soft Underbelly: The Allied Invasion of Sicily & the Fall of Il Duce
Mar 16, 202658 min
200: The North African Campaign: Desert Rats, the Desert Fox, & Operation Torch
Mar 2, 20261h 5m
199: Building the Anglo-American Alliance: The US Enters the European Theater
Feb 16, 20261h 2m
198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway
Feb 2, 20261h 3m
197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)
Jan 19, 20261h 4m
196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey
Jan 5, 202659 min
195: Holiday Special IX: Chanukah in Warsaw & Christmas in Washington, D.C.
Dec 22, 202537 min
194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941
Dec 7, 20251h 3m
193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941)
Nov 24, 20251h 3m
192: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein: The American Revolution and WWII
Nov 10, 202557 min
Bonus: Eleanor Roosevelt "Over Our Coffee Cups"
Nov 3, 20257 min
191: Halloween Special V: “The War of the Worlds” on the Radio
Oct 20, 202541 min
190: Epilogue to US Pre-WWII Isolationism to Interventionism with Lynne Olson
Oct 13, 20251h 10m
189: World War II in Europe & the American Response (1941): Production & Preparation
Oct 6, 20251h 6m
The Unlikely Union: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Sep 29, 202511 min
188: World War II in Europe & The American Response (1939–40): Isolationism vs. Arsenal of Democracy
Sep 22, 20251h 8m
187: From the Rhineland to Poland (1935–1939): Annexation, Appeasement, & the Start of World War II
Sep 8, 20251h 8m
186: From Czardom to Stalinism: Building the USSR & the Ascent of Joseph Stalin
Aug 25, 20251h 6m
185: The Early Holocaust: From the “Jewish Question” to Kristallnacht
Aug 11, 20251h 8m
The Unlikely Union: New Tour Dates
Aug 7, 20259 min
184: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Failure to Führer of Nazi Germany or the Third Reich
Jul 28, 20251h 7m
183: The Origin of Fascism: “Il Duce” Benito Mussolini & the Rise of Fascist Italy
Jul 14, 20251h 10m
182: A Prologue to World War II: US Army Interwar Preparation
Jun 30, 202545 min
181: American Aviation: The Growth of the Industry Through the Eyes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Howard Hughes
Jun 16, 20251h 4m
180: “A Race to the Sky”: The Rise of New York City’s Chrysler, Manhattan Company, and Empire State Buildings
Jun 2, 20251h 1m
179: Bridging the Bay: San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay Bridges (Infrastructure pt. 2)
May 19, 20251h 4m
178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1)
May 5, 20251h 6m
America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William Rapp
Apr 21, 202559 min
177: An Epilogue to the New Deal and CCC Deep Dive with Neil Maher
Apr 7, 202550 min
176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New Deal
Mar 24, 20251h 7m
175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal
Mar 10, 20251h 7m
174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal
Feb 24, 20251h 3m
173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Feb 10, 20251h 7m
172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression
Dec 16, 20241h 4m
171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age
Dec 2, 202432 min
170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover
Nov 18, 20241h 4m
169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell
Nov 4, 202442 min
168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror
Oct 21, 202438 min
167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe
Oct 7, 202457 min
166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick
Sep 30, 202450 min
165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino
Sep 23, 20241h 0m
164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture
Sep 9, 20241h 2m
163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical
Aug 26, 202459 min
162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”
Aug 12, 20241h 2m
161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent
Jul 29, 202438 min