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Professor Buzzkill History Podcast

Professor Buzzkill is an exciting podcast that explores history myths in an illuminating, entertaining, and humorous way.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in adver... Read more

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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

1hr 25mins

Ranked #2

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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

1hr 12mins

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#174 - Rommel

#174 - Rommel

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has gone down in history not only as a genius soldier and commander, but also as a mil... Read more

25 Jan 2017

1hr 4mins

Ranked #4

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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

1hr 17mins

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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

19 Mar 2019

1hr 17mins

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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

6 Dec 2016

52mins

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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

1hr 28mins

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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

1hr

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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

19 Jul 2019

47mins

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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

1hr 8mins

Ranked #11

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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

53mins

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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

42mins

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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

21 Aug 2018

37mins

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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

20 Feb 2018

1hr 7mins

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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

5 May 2017

23mins

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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

12 Apr 2016

1hr 18mins

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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

33mins

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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

1hr 14mins

Ranked #19

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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

1hr 2mins

Ranked #20

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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

29mins

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