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On today’s episode we talk about a man whose influence on the trajectory of American history is undeniable and pervasive, but whose name you...
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On today’s episode we talk about a man whose influence on the trajectory of American history is undeniable and pervasive, but whose name you...

On today’s episode we talk about a pivotal battle in a poorly remembered war: The battle of Paardeberg in the Second Anglo-Boer War. The war...

On today’s episode, we talk about a little remembered campaign of the Civil War fought west of the Mississippi, when a former Missouri gover...

On today’s episode, we talk about an incredibly deadly creature, which has determined the course of nearly all human history just by existin...

On today’s episode, we talk about something that has held together history, literally. Even though there’s probably a roll in just about eve...

On today’s episode, we talk about the USS Wyoming and the 1863 battle of the Shiminoseki Straits - a seemingly minor event overshadowed by t...

On today’s episode we talk about the first commercially successful ‘plastic’, the beginning of the plastic revolution that has so altered hu...

On today’s episode, we talk about a soviet submarine disaster in the Atlantic, which averted potentially disastrous outcomes only by the her...

On today’s episode, we talk about the beautiful islands of Samoa, which were the background to a clash between the relatively nascent empire...

On today's episode, we discuss the Blight that nearly wiped out wine, and how wine and indeed the world might be different if it had unfolde...

On today’s episode we talk about one of the most fraught elections in American history, where violence, initmidation and outright fraud prec...

On today’s episode, we talk about the mutiny of the Pennsylvania Line on New Years Day, 1781, and how it might have altered the trajectory o...

On today's episode, we talk about a forgotten part of the Battle of the Bulge - Elsenborn Ridge, where outnumbered allied units held against...

On today’s episode we talk about what is often called the last invasion of mainland Britain - a disastrous and almost farcical series of blu...

Today we talk about the most numerous bird on the planet - the chicken - and how the world might be different if we never domesticated it.

On today’s episode, we talk about some of the first steel-hulled ships the United States ever built, and how those first few ships might hav...

On today’s episode, we venture to Asia to talk about a battle that determined the course of Chinese history, and that has become such an int...

On today’s episode we talk about one of the most ubiquitous human creations in the modern world: Concrete. What would the modern world look...

On today’s episode, we talk about a little-remembered presidential visit in the wake of Pearl Harbor - Christmas, 1941, when Winston Churchi...

Today we talk about a little remembered battle that could have been a turning point in the First World War - a battle between the German Hig...