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What if the Texas Republic survived?
In 1845, the Republic of Texas stood at a crossroads. In our history, they chose to join the USA… but what if they chose another path? Was this even p...
The Hurricane Betsy Conspiracy: New Orleans
Did New Orleans' officials bomb the levees protecting the Lower Ninth Ward in 1965?
When Hurricane Betsy swept through the Atlantic Basin, it ki...
The Supreme Court’s WORST Ever Case: Dred Scott v Sandford
A Supreme Court decision that sent shockwaves across America. Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857. Who was the Chief Justice responsible for the decision? On...
Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Lone Gunman?
Why not have a go at understanding one of the most famous conspiracies of the 20th Century?
We will probably never get an answer for what really...
Bleeding Kansas: Start of the Civil War?
Was 'Bleeding Kansas' a dress rehearsal for the Civil War to come? During the 1850s pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed in the newly created...
American Origins of Halloween
How did the pre-Christian commemoration of Samhain travel across the seas from Ancient Ireland to America? And how did it evolve into the Halloween we...
Was the American Revolution a World War?
What makes a war a World War? If it's the involvement of multiple major world powers, will France, Spain and the Netherlands do?
If it's battles...
What If George Washington Became King?
‘No occurrence in the course of the war has given me more painful sensations.' This was George Washington's response when the idea of his becoming 'Ki...
What If There Were No CIA?
The Agency. The Company. Langley.
Without the Central Intelligence Agency, would we talk about conspiracy theories as much as we do? Who would b...
Origins of the US Navy: America's Revolutionary Pirate
Happy 250th Birthday to the US Navy! Today Don asks, who was John Paul Jones and did he really father the US Navy? Our guest is historian James L. Nel...