US History

President Roosevelt’s War on Polio

` President Roosevelt’s War on Polio The paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) began in 1921 when the future[…]

This Secret Program Helped U.S. Pilots Defeat MiGs It’s 1977 and the Pentagon has just launched a top secret pilot[…]

American Revolution Historians have debated whether the American Revolution was a revolution at all. There is a long historiography covering[…]

The Texas Revolution What caused the Texas Revolution? So we’re covering two wars actually, but they’re inseparable. The tensions had[…]

American Veterans Veterans’ part in American history has been more important than you would typically think, and I’m not talking[…]

US Declared war on Germany in 1917 It’s been around a century since the US declared war on Germany in[…]

Historians Who Changed History This is the second part of a 2 part episode. The first covered Woodrow Wilson from[…]

Woodrow Wilson Time to finally tell you why I’ve Woodrow Wilson as a bit of a rhetorical punching bag. This[…]

Lost Cause Myth The Lost Cause Myth has changed American history. Though it is a hateful ideology today, to ignore[…]

Key Battles of The Pacific Theatre War with Japan – Battles Won and Lost moves its focus to the Pacific[…]