The Battle of Kings Mountain /// 117
This the story of the Battle of Kings Mountain – one of many turning points of the American Revolution. This is part eleven of an ongoing mi...
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The Patriot: Francis Marion – The Swamp Fox of the Carolinas /// 116
If you saw the man who inspired Mel Gibson’s The Patriot you would never think he’d be the man to inspire a Hollywood blockbuster. Short, of...
The Battle of Camden and the American Revolutionary War /// 115
The Battle of Camden was not one of the most important battles in human history. It was not the most decisive battle of the Revolutionary Wa...
The Reversal: The Siege of Charleston and the American Revolution /// 114
The Siege of Charleston was one of the greatest military defeats of the United States in history. Starvation stalked the city. A miasma of f...
The American War of Independence and the Battle of Monmouth /// 113
There are battles which decide the fate of nations, battles which set the arc of history, conflicts which decide the future of a civilizatio...
The Turn: The Battle of Saratoga /// 112
In any poker game, “the turn” is arguably the most important hand. When the fourth card is dealt, most poker players have an ide...
Victory or Death: The Battle of Trenton /// 111
The Battles of Trenton and Princeton almost single-handedly saved the cause of the American Revolution. For weeks, as Thomas Paine admitted,...
A Military History of the Revolutionary War: The Battle of Long Island /// 110
The Battle of Long Island was the largest battle of the American Revolution. Tens of thousands of men along with thousands of sailors strugg...
The Skeleton March and the Battle of Quebec /// 109
In the fall of 1775, 1,000 Americans entered the western wilds of Maine and pushed overland to the very edge of modern-day Quebec. The trip...
A Military History of the American Revolution: Bunker Hill /// 108
Bunker Hill was one of the most important battles of the American Revolution. In this struggle, Britain attempted to break out of Boston, su...
The Shot Heard Round the World: Lexington and Concord
Before The Battle of Lexington and Concord many thoughtful commentators, in both England and the American colonies, thought peace was possib...
Cannibal Holocaust: The Guangxi Massacre /// 106
The Guangxi Massacre was the largest documented case of mass cannibalism in human history. The Guangxi culinary abomination took place betwe...
The Definitive Military History of Monaco and Monte Carlo
Monaco is a nation smaller than one square mile but filled with more wealth per capita than almost any other country in the world. According...
A Military History of the Attack at Pearl Harbor /// 104
The Battle of Pearl Harbor was one of the most important events in United States – and human – history. It unleashed the most po...
The Military History of the Battle of Pearl Harbor /// 103
The Battle of Pearl Harbor: a day that lived in infamy. Thousands of American servicemen were caught unaware – fish in a tropical barr...
A History of Torture: Interpersonal Torture /// 102
In this concluding episode of the definitive podcast history of torture, the focus is on interpersonal torture by non-state actors. This epi...
An American Torture Story /// 101
American torture. For years, philosophers, jurists, and legal theorists struggled with American use of torture in the war on terror. Just a...
A History of Torture in America /// 100
This is a history of torture on the North American continent, including Native American, Canadian and United States torture practices. It’s...
A History of the Cambodian Genocide /// 99
The Cambodian Genocide was a second holocaust. Approximately 1.6 million human beings were killed in the terrible bloodletting. But the geno...
Gulag: A History of Soviet Torture /// 98
The Soviet punitive system was the heir of literally hundreds of years of secret police interrogation. For centuries, the Czar’s secre...