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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 3: The Barbary States and Their 300-Year Reign of Mediterranean Piracy
2024-10-31
What a Modern-Day Stonemason Can Tell Us About Hand Building 13th- Century Gothic Cathedrals and Carving Gargoyles
2024-10-29
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 2: The British Origins of the US Navy
2024-10-24
The Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 Permanently Altered Siege Warfare, Middle Eastern Demographics, and Global Trade
2024-10-22
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 1: America Wanted to Take 1776 to the High Seas. North African Pirates Disagreed.
2024-10-17
New Series Launches Tomorrow: Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (with James Early)
2024-10-15
How Civil War Vets Continued Living Despite Being Double, Triple, or Even Quadruple Amputees
2024-10-15
What’s the Difference Between a Pirate, a Privateer, and a Naval Officer? In the 1700s, Very Little
2024-10-10
After Genghis Khan Conquered the Earth, Kublai Khan Conquered the Seas
2024-10-08
Aesop’s Fables and Whether They Were Written By an Ugly, Enslaved “Barbarian” Who Discretely Mocked His Masters
2024-10-03
"Thermopylae, the “300” Spartans, and the 26 Other Battles Fought There Over the Last 2,400 Years
2024-10-01
The Last Emperor of Mexico: How a Habsburg Archduke Set Up a Kingdom in the New World in the 1860s
2024-09-26
First-Hand Account of Hiroshima: Before, During, and After the Atomic Bomb Drop
2024-09-24
America’s Professional Sports Grew From Farm Teams to Multi-Billion Dollar Franches Thanks to the Harlem Globetrotters Founder
2024-09-19
Why Did Presidents Seem Incredibly Rich Yet Were Completely Broke Most of the Time?
2024-09-17
A 1,300 History of the Middle East in Seven Religious Wars
2024-09-12
When Good Ideas Were Bad Medicine: Why Vitamin C and Handwashing was Rejected by the Medical Establishment
2024-09-10
Appleton Oaksmith: The Confederate Blockade Runner Who Became Lincoln’s Public Enemy #1
2024-09-05
The Bible Triggered Two Communications Revolutions: The Codex and the Printing Press
2024-09-03
Steering an Aerial Plywood Box Through Enemy Fire: The Glider Pilots of WW2
2024-08-29
