199: Building the Anglo-American Alliance: The US Enters the European Theater
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198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway
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1:03:08Feb 2, 2026
197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)
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1:04:02Jan 19, 2026
196: An Epilogue to Pearl Harbor with Steve Twomey
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59:50Jan 5, 2026
195: Holiday Special IX: Chanukah in Warsaw & Christmas in Washington, D.C.
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37:25Dec 22, 2025
194: Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941
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1:03:23Dec 7, 2025
193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941)
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1:03:38Nov 24, 2025
192: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein: The American Revolution and WWII
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57:46Nov 10, 2025
Bonus: Eleanor Roosevelt "Over Our Coffee Cups"
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7:19Nov 3, 2025
191: Halloween Special V: “The War of the Worlds” on the Radio
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41:50Oct 20, 2025
190: An Epilogue to US Pre-WW2 Turn from Isolationism to Interventionism and the Influential Americans in London Who Brokered the FDR-Churchill Bromance
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1:10:00Oct 13, 2025
189: World War II in Europe & the American Response (1941): Production & Preparation
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1:06:16Oct 6, 2025
The Unlikely Union: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
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11:23Sep 29, 2025
188: World War II in Europe & The American Response (1939–40): Isolationism vs. Arsenal of Democracy
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1:08:05Sep 22, 2025
187: From the Rhineland to Poland (1935–1939): Annexation, Appeasement, & the Start of World War II
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1:08:46Sep 8, 2025
186: From Czardom to Stalinism: Building the USSR & the Ascent of Joseph Stalin
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1:06:39Aug 25, 2025
185: The Early Holocaust: From the “Jewish Question” to Kristallnacht
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1:08:59Aug 11, 2025
The Unlikely Union: New Tour Dates
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9:23Aug 7, 2025
184: The Rise of Adolf Hitler: From Failure to Führer of Nazi Germany or the Third Reich
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1:07:14Jul 28, 2025
183: The Origin of Fascism: “Il Duce” Benito Mussolini & the Rise of Fascist Italy
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1:10:40Jul 14, 2025
182: A Prologue to World War II: US Army Interwar Preparation
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45:50Jun 30, 2025
181: American Aviation: The Growth of the Industry Through the Eyes of Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Howard Hughes
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1:04:22Jun 16, 2025
180: “A Race to the Sky”: The Rise of New York City’s Chrysler, Manhattan Company, and Empire State Buildings
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1:01:19Jun 2, 2025
179: Bridging the Bay: San Francisco’s Golden Gate and Bay Bridges (Infrastructure pt. 2)
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1:04:26May 19, 2025
178: “A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (Infrastructure pt. 1)
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1:06:54May 5, 2025
America 250: The Boston Campaign 1775-76: A Leadership Discussion with Gen. William Rapp
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59:28Apr 21, 2025
177: An Epilogue to the New Deal and CCC Deep Dive with Neil Maher
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50:46Apr 7, 2025
176: FDR v. “The Nine Old Men” (The New Deal pt. 3): Court Packing and Closing the New Deal
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1:07:18Mar 24, 2025
175: The Dirty Thirties (The New Deal pt. 2): Dust, Doubts, and the “Second” New Deal
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1:07:28Mar 10, 2025
174: The First “First Hundred Days:” FDR Kicks Off the New Deal
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1:03:05Feb 24, 2025
173: From Hyde Park to the White House: The Early Life and Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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1:07:24Feb 10, 2025
172: Breadlines, Bank Failures, & the Bonus Army: Hoover & the Early Great Depression
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1:04:40Dec 16, 2024
171: Christmas Special VIII: Festivities in the Jazz Age
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32:10Dec 2, 2024
170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President Herbert Hoover
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1:04:14Nov 18, 2024
169: An Epilogue to the 1920s: Youth culture, The Great Gatsby, and more with Professor Sarah Churchwell
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42:36Nov 4, 2024
168: Halloween Special IV: Nosferatu and Silent Horror
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38:17Oct 21, 2024
167: The Golden Age of Sports: Horse Racing, Boxing, Basketball, Football, & Jim Thorpe
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57:43Oct 7, 2024
166: A Conversation on Negro Leagues Baseball History with Bob Kendrick
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50:58Sep 30, 2024
165: America’s Favorite Pastime: Baseball, the Negro Leagues, and the Great Bambino
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1:00:35Sep 23, 2024
164: Harlem Renaissance: The Great Migration, Jazz, and the Flowering of Black Culture
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1:02:33Sep 9, 2024
163: The Show (Boat) Must Go On: Broadway and the American Musical
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59:46Aug 26, 2024
162: The Birth of the Movies: From Silent Cinema to the Rise of Hollywood & the First “Talkie”
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1:02:06Aug 12, 2024
161: An Epilogue Toast to Prohibition’s End with Author Daniel Okrent
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38:11Jul 29, 2024
160: Al Capone & the End of Prohibition
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1:03:35Jul 15, 2024
159: Scofflaws, Moonshiners, Bootleggers, and Crime Lords
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59:51Jul 1, 2024
158: Prohibition - So You Wanna Be a Rum Runner?
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56:25Jun 17, 2024
157: Temperance, Prohibition, and the Path to the 18th Amendment
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1:00:31Jun 3, 2024
156: The Presidency of “Silent” Cal Coolidge
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1:01:03May 20, 2024
155: The Life & Times of Warren G. Harding & The Teapot Dome Scandal
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1:07:11May 6, 2024
154: An Epilogue Discussion with Ben Sawyer
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1:01:35Apr 22, 2024