History Does You

The Napoleonic Wars was a series of conflicts between the French Empire led by Napoleon Bonaparte and other European Pow... Read more

Alexander the Great was one of worlds most successful military commanders never losing a battle and creating an empire t... Read more

On today's episode, we talk about one of my favorite periods of history, the Space Race. The Space Race occupied the sci... Read more

The Ottoman-Hapsburg wars was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and Hapsburg Dynasty which ruled a variet... Read more

Today marks the 75th Anniversary of the Operation Varsity, which was the largest single day Airborne operation of World ... Read more

A bit of a different episode today, I had a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling autho... Read more

The U.S.-China relationship is increasingly becoming under scrutiny because of China's increasingly powerful economy and... Read more

The Road to the Vietnam War has been scrutinized by historians for decades offering a variety of explanations on how the... Read more

As the United States steadily expanded west acquiring new territory by buying it and war, the overarching question regar... Read more

President Richard Nixon won the presidency on the promise to end the war in Vietnam and bring 'law and order'.  Instead ... Read more

This is the first episode where we have covered an event during the first World War. By 1917, the war had been raging fo... Read more

On today's episode, we cover the timeline of the decision making process that went into the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Un... Read more

September 11, 2001 was the defining event for a generation of Americans. The attacks on New York and Washington DC chang... Read more

For many Americans, the Revolutionary War was a solo effort against the most powerful country in the world at the time. ... Read more

The Arab Spring was an important event for the Middle East and was the start of important change throughout the Middle E... Read more

The Mexican-American War was a critical event in the mid 1800's as it helped add a large swathe of what is now the Weste... Read more

The Cold War ended in 1991 marking the end of a bipolar world pitting the U.S. and its allies against the Soviet Union a... Read more

The United States and Mexico's relationship has often been overlooked in history despite the fact that the two countries... Read more

In today's episode we talk about the Battle of Iwo Jima whose 75th Anniversary was this past Wednesday. The battle produ... Read more

The Congress for Cultural Freedom was anti-communist advocacy group started in 1950 to project western Democratic values... Read more