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#238 - Vietnam War: Myth and Memory
#238 - Vietnam War: Myth and Memory
Professor Phil Nash shows how the myths and misconceptions about the Vietnam War started, grew, and have plagued our his... Read more
21 Nov 2017
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Flashback Friday - Clean Wehrmacht
Flashback Friday - Clean Wehrmacht
How “clean” was the regular German army (Wehrmacht) during World War II? The Nazis and the SS usually get all the blame ... Read more
29 Nov 2019
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#174 - Rommel
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25 Jan 2017
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#234 - October Revolution 100th Anniversary
#234 - October Revolution 100th Anniversary
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events in the 20th century. Professor Nash joins us to unta... Read more
23 Oct 2017
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#300 - Jesse James and the Civil War
#300 - Jesse James and the Civil War
Was Jesse James a famous “western outlaw” or is the story more complicated than that? Listen as Professor Nash takes us ... Read more
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#159 - Pearl Harbor
#159 - Pearl Harbor
Professor Phil Nash joins us to explain the myths and misconceptions about the December 7th, 1941, as well as the comple... Read more
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#200 - JFK: the Man and the Myths 1917-1963
#200 - JFK: the Man and the Myths 1917-1963
John F. Kennedy was one of the most fascinating Presidents in US history. And perhaps more fascinating are the ways in w... Read more
25 May 2017
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#321 - WWII in the Pacific: the Defeat of Japan, 1944-45
#321 - WWII in the Pacific: the Defeat of Japan, 1944-45
Japan’s defensive perimeter kept shrinking during 1944 and 1945, yet the war dragged on. The battles for Iwo Jima and Ok... Read more
30 Jul 2019
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*Flashback Friday* #36 - Black Adder and World War I
*Flashback Friday* #36 - Black Adder and World War I
It's time to go over the top, Buzzkillers! We interview Professor Richard Grayson about the wildly popular BBC televisio... Read more
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#227 - The Lost Cause Myth
#227 - The Lost Cause Myth
The Lost Cause is one of the most troubling aspects of American history. The ways in which the Confederacy and the pre-C... Read more
14 Sep 2017
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#324 - Poland and World War II
#324 - Poland and World War II
Myths about Poland during World War II are everywhere. Professor Philip Nash and I destroy some of the biggest ones in t... Read more
3 Sep 2019
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#296 - “Nazi” “Socialist”: What’s in a Name?
#296 - “Nazi” “Socialist”: What’s in a Name?
Why was Hitler’s fascist party named the “National-Socialist German Workers' Party”? “Socialist” and “Fascist” usually h... Read more
20 Feb 2019
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#273 - U.S. Political Parties
#273 - U.S. Political Parties
I got so sick of idiots posting completely ahistorical things about American Political Parties on Twitter and Facebook, ... Read more
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#247 - Pentagon Papers
#247 - Pentagon Papers
Professor Phil Nash helps us explain the complicated and much-mythologized history of the Pentagon Papers, which is shor... Read more
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#196 - Legal Immigration to the United States
#196 - Legal Immigration to the United States
The history of immigration to the United States is very complicated, Buzzkillers! Millions of people came from all over ... Read more
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#100 - General Patton
#100 - General Patton
General George Patton was one of the most famous, colorful, and talked about US generals in World War II. He is also amo... Read more
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#215 - Dunkirk
#215 - Dunkirk
It's 2017, Buzzkillers, 77 years after the Battle of Dunkirk and the subsequent evacuation of allied troops from that ar... Read more
3 Aug 2017
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#202 - D-Day
#202 - D-Day
D-Day, June 6, 1944, is one of the most well-known events of World War II. Why did it happen the way it did and why did ... Read more
1 Jun 2017
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#252 - Civil War Medicine
#252 - Civil War Medicine
We usually hear that surgery and medical treatment during the Civil War was backward butchery. But was it? Let's cross o... Read more
20 Mar 2018
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#221 - The KKK: History and Myth
#221 - The KKK: History and Myth
Practically nothing in the history of the United States has suffered from myth-making and misunderstanding as much as th... Read more
24 Aug 2017
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