Professor Buzzkill History Podcast

Kate Messner, the author of the wonderful "History Smashers" series, enlightens us about the innumerable myths surroundi... Read more

For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative his... Read more

The blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, is sweeping the cinema world, and has become an historical event in itself. Professor... Read more

The recent Oppenheimer film has prompted interest in the events surrounding the building and dropping of the atomic bomb... Read more

In the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning rods for public outrage and debate. In ... Read more

The US government placed white lawyers at Japanese-American concentration camps during World War II. These lawyers were ... Read more

During the Civil War, his movements from battlefield to battlefield were followed in the North and in the South nearly a... Read more

Patrick Bringley’s new book, All the Beauty in the World: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me, is one of the most popu... Read more

Julius Streicher was the founder and publisher of the virulently antisemitic newspaper “Der Stürmer” – a central element... Read more

In a time when the US flag, the Fourth of July, and historical sites have never been more contested, Professor Matthew C... Read more