It's time for a pop quiz! Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the episode, The Creation of Israel, and the good and bad outcomes it produced. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

One year ago, Hamas terrorists attacked Israel and killed or captured well over a thousand of its citizens. In response, the Israeli government launched its largest military campaign since 1973 and killed thousands in the Gaza Strip. The war has since expanded with Israel battling Iranian-backed proxy militias in Lebanon and defending itself from missile and drone attacks across the country. This season is called "Good Idea, Bad Idea." We are going to discuss the long-term results--positive and negative--of some of history's most important people and events. We promise to cover these topics openly and honestly, ask questions, and give you context to find answers. Through these episodes and discussions, we hope to bring you the facts of history and, as always, allow you to draw your own conclusions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This interview originally aired on June 6, 2022. Go buy, "Anatomy of a Nation". It's an incredible read. __ Join us for part one of our interview with the eminent British historian, Dr. Dominic Selwood about his book, Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents. In this special discussion, Dr. Selwood explains the origins of the book, the power of story in history, and answers some of our questions about the different documents he covers. Dr. Dominic Selwood is a historian, journalist, and barrister. He is a bestselling author and novelist, and a frequent contributor to national newspapers, radio, and TV including The Telegraph, The Independent, The Spectator, The Catholic Herald, Sky News, and the BBC. He has a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford and a masters from the Sorbonne. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served as an officer in the British Army. He lives in London with his family. https://www.dominicselwood.com/ Twitter: @DominicSelwood. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on Thomas Crapper originally aired on February 22, 2021. __ The concept of moving water from one place to the other has been on the minds of humans since their creation. Conversely, the desire to move soiled water away automatically has – at times – been considered equally important. The means by which this could be done has evolved as civilizations have come and gone. In all of them, a basic pattern emerged in plumbing conception and construction: the path, the pipe, and the seal. Join us as we teach you a brief history of plumbing, its evolution through the ages, and the influence of Thomas Crapper on plumbing technology and sanitation practices. Access this transcript at www.15minutehistorypodcast.org and please leave us a review wherever you listen to this podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on the Nuremberg Trials originally aired on April 19, 2021. __ Twenty-one men sat in the dock awaiting their fate. Once the leaders of Europe's mightiest nation who had strutted proudly across the world stage arrogantly proclaiming the supremacy of the Aryan race, their faces remained defiant as their empire lay in ruins outside. Some showed open contempt for the victors who now sat in judgment over them. Others sat quietly, their faces frozen and their eyes fixed forward. Some even looked surprised at having been charged with crimes against humanity, since they were "just following orders." Their leader, now dead, had commanded them to murder millions, and as good Germans, they had done just that. Now, with the world's most terrible war at an end, they would face justice. Join us as we teach you about the Nuremberg Trials, the monsters who faced justice, and the radicalism that corrupted an entire nation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Joe and Jon discuss a recent online controversy within the historical community and debunk some claims made by a "popular historian" (featured on the Tucker Carlson Show) about Winston Churchill and the Second World War. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. Both episodes 1 & 2 of the podcasts on Winston Churchill originally aired in late March of 2021 ____ Part One Excerpt: As stated by Andrew Roberts in his book, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, "Before the new MP had even taken his seat, he had fought in four wars, published five books, written 215 newspaper and magazine articles, participated in the greatest cavalry charge in a half a century and made a spectacular escape from prison. ‘At twenty-five, he had fought in more continents than any soldier in his tour save Napoleon,’ a contemporary profile of him was to proclaim, ‘and seen as many campaigns as any living general.’” Part Two Excerpt: In Great Britain calls for negotiations with Hitler were on the rise, with some leaders in the House of Commons outright promoting it. Churchill wouldn’t hear of it. “I have thought carefully in these last days whether it was part of my duty to consider entering into negotiations with That Man,” he said in an informal meeting with his Cabinet. “I am convinced that every man of you would rise up and tear me down from my place if I were for one moment to contemplate parley or surrender. If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.” Churchill would reiterate such sentiments in one of the most famous speeches in his career, given to the House of Commons after the evacuation of Dunkirk on June 6th. “Even though huge tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall never surrender.” Join us for podcast parts 1 &2 on the life of Winston Churchill. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on the Russian Revolution originally aired on February 24, 2020. ____ Join us as we teach you about the Russian Revolution and why it was a turning point in history. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on Che Guevara originally aired on March 7, 2022. __ Join us as we teach you about Che Guevara, his influence, actions, and the effects of his Marxist beliefs.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on Adam Smith originally aired on November 15, 2021. ___ He looked up at the white sky. The flakes did come into view until they came through the holes in the roof. A breeze blew through the building. Men around him huddled close together. He didn’t smell the stink anymore. It was all the same smell.  Among the flakes now contrasting with the dark of the roof, he centered on one that moved slowly down to him. It went to and fro, back and forth, until it seemed to hover, suspended and clean, uncorrupted by the world and the filth and the pain that it was falling into. Then it fell. And when it touched his arm he watched it absorb the dirt and blood and suddenly it looked like rot. He turned back to the sky and repented. His voice was the only one he could hear. Join us as we teach you about Fyodor Dostoyevsky, his influences, his style, and his impact on our world today.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on Eisenhower's Farewell Address originally aired on April 24, 2023. ___ The president sat at his desk in the Oval Office as technicians scurried about setting up lights and cameras. He looked down at the speech, his last to the nation he had served for almost a half-century, and his thoughts no doubt turned to the tumultuous events of his life. Two world wars, nations devastated and then reborn, and the constant menace of a new enemy armed with terrible weapons. But perhaps he also thought of the advancements he had witnessed: economic revival and a new standard of living, an unpopular war imperfectly ended, and a world still thriving despite the threat of atomic devastation. His long life was nearing its end, and America’s oldest president would soon hand power to the youngest ever elected. Change was upon the country, and its people deserved one last message from a man who had led it through many dangers. He took a breath and began to speak. “Good evening, my fellow Americans.” Join us as we teach you about Eisenhower's farewell address, the warnings he included, and the impact of what he got right. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on J.R.R. Tolkien originally aired on October 10, 2022. ___ Familiar to millions as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien believed that myths used stories of heroes to inspire generations of readers. He began his writing career with a children’s book, and when his publisher asked for a sequel, Tolkien had to give it some thought. For much of his life, he had lamented the fact that much of English mythology had been destroyed by invading armies or imported from abroad. (For example, the most famous English myth, that of King Arthur, was a blend of Scottish and French stories.) On putting pen to paper for the first time on his magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien began to craft an alternate mythology for his homeland that would tell heroic tales that, he believed, were lacking in modern Britain. Join us as we teach you about heroism through the eyes of J.R.R. Tolkien, how he incorporated heroism into stories, and how history influenced his view of heroes in fiction and real life.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to a special Pop Quiz! In this longer version of our traditional pop quiz, Joe and Jon discuss the current election and attempted assassination from a historical perspective. As always, we invite you to send us your feedback and questions on this discussion. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on Adam Smith originally aired on April 18, 2022. ___ This season we have been covering individuals who have had a direct effect on history, in a positive or negative way. Adam Smith is one of those. He is called the “father of modern economics” and “the creator of capitalism”. Rather than walk you through a summary of his life, we will attempt to summarize the possible influences that formed three major concepts which exist in his later and final work, the Wealth of Nations, namely the appropriation of Self-Interest, Division of Labor, and the “The Invisible Hand”, thereby showing the linear deduction of each, and how that logic reflects in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy. With the presentation of these three ideas, it's our hope that you will make your own deductions regarding what kind of man he was and whether his effect on history was a positive one. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on C.S. Lewis originally aired on January 17, 2022. ___ Three men walked along a tree-covered path in the early hours of a Sunday morning. Their conversation mixed with the sound of water flowing over rocks in a small river and the crunch of leaves beneath their booted feet. The words they spoke were steeped in deep knowledge of literature and philosophy as they wrestled with the nature of the universe and man’s place in it. The two Englishmen believed that God had created the world and sent His Son to die for mankind’s sins, while their Irish friend was a skeptic who did not believe in anything beyond this life. Then, as their talk turned to myths and the great stories of humanity’s past, a strong autumn wind came up suddenly and sent leaves scattering across the path. The sheer power of the gust filled their hearts with wonder, and they stopped and stood in its midst, as one of them put it, “appreciating the ecstasy of such a moment.” ___ Join us as we teach you about Clive Staples Lewis, his life, his writing, and his lasting legacy.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode and discussion on Alexander the Great originally aired on January 31, 2022. ___ He looked out across the field and then back at his formations. The wind was coming in from the west, throwing dust clouds up into the air on his left side. The brown of the dust blended with the armor of the enemy for a moment, blurring them into a single mass that blanketed the horizon. Alexander turned to confirm the calvary on his left were holding their position and was satisfied to see that they were. The other army advanced on the flank. He looked at his enemies’ centerline, made some mental calculations, and steadied himself. The moment brought a memory of watching the molding of armor when he was a boy. During his education, he was made to watch the metal mold under the pressure of the maker’s will. Violence would bend the metal and countless strikes, one after the other, would force the metal to give way. He looked at his phalanxes. They had met the enemy on his right and left. The left was reeling back and he ordered a small formation to reinforce them. He raised his sword to signal his cavalry and charged straight into the center of the opposing line. ____ Join us as we teach you about Alexander the Great and how he became the ruler of the known world.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team are republishing some of their favorite episodes and discussions. This episode and discussion about Joseph Stalin, originally aired on February 14, 2022. ___ The great revolutionary's body lay in a red coffin as it wound its way through the streets of Moscow toward the House of Trade Unions. Six men carried it, surrounded by a phalanx of guards, through the gathered throng of mourners—some genuine, others paid. Each hoped to succeed Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but only one could, and did. The mustachioed man known to his friends as "Koba" who had spent decades fighting to bring communism to his homeland was now General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and he held in his hands the keys to ultimate power in the world's largest state. His rivals, especially Lenin's closest ally Leon Trotsky, were already plotting against him, but the general secretary controlled the Party's political apparatus and had the support of leaders across the country. When Lenin was laid to rest, three men formed an uneasy alliance, a troika, to rule collectively, but Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was determined to rule alone. Join us as we teach you about Joseph Stalin, his life, rise to power, and his lasting effect on our world today.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team is republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode, Horatio Nelson, originally aired on February 20, 2023. He was on the quarterdeck when he realized it. The smoke was thick between the two ships and it was hard to make any sense of the melee. His men pushed forward against the other crew as grenades and musket fire came from the masts. The sun was low on the horizon and the impending dark blended into a sea of undefined movement. The world was noise. One of the enemy sailors slashed at him. He parried the blow and drove the man’s sword into the deck of the ship. Turning the blade upward, he cut across the man’s gut and kicked him aside as he focused on the fight in front of him. The chaos slowed and his senses focused, giving him almost perfect clarity. He immediately turned to his second in command and ordered them to keep engaging. He jumped onto the railing of his ship to bypass the hordes of men and ran across it before jumping back to his deck and going into his quarters. He burst into the main room and peered out the window to the other ship, gauged the distance, and then broke the windows of the cabin until all the shards were gone. He backed up, took a deep breath, and ran to the window. Jumping through it, he crashed through the glass of the enemy’s captain’s quarters. Immediately after hitting the carpet, he did a forward roll, sprang to his feet, and surveyed the room. After a moment, he saw the other man standing in the corner, his eyes wide, his sword drawn. He drew his own sword and pointed the tip at the man in the corner. “You sir, are a coward.” Not another word was spoken. And when he left the cabin and entered into the wider battle, he left nothing behind. Join us as we teach you about Horatio Nelson, his life, achievements, and why he is considered one of the greatest heroes in British (and world) history. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

During the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team is republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode, Joan of Arc, originally aired on October 18, 2021. Arrows filled the sky above the battlefield and rained down on the French knights as they slogged through the mud in heavy armor. Their effect was devastating, and hundreds of France’s noblest men fell screaming as the English longbowmen poured fire into their ranks. The French commander urged his men forward, while at the other end of the field the King of England, Henry V, watched the battle with a smile on his scarred face. Soon, the English celebrated their great triumph at Agincourt on St. Crispin’s Day. It was perhaps the high-point in the long war between the two countries that had begun nearly a hundred years earlier over who would sit on the throne of France. England stood on the threshold of victory, and as its soldiers tended the wounded and drank to their fallen, no one in Henry’s army could know that a three-year-old girl living far to the southeast would one day turn the tide of war against them. Join us as we teach you about Joan of Arc and how she changed the course of history forever. Be sure to send us your questions for our discussion segment next week and if you feel so inclined, support the show by going to https://anchor.fm/15minutehistory/support.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Welcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or submit it to our website at https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. We promise not to give him any hints. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

To honor the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion, we are republishing our Pointe du Hoc episode (first aired on April 12, 2021). "The last landing was unique. It was a 100-foot cliff facing the English Channel, situated between Utah and Omaha beach. At the top of the cliff were 155mm guns with a range of 3.5 miles that could fire on both Utah and Omaha beaches and cause maximum casualties. The challenges facing these men were obvious, with the sheer rock face and no cover, and they would be easy targets for the Germans. In addition, the choppy sea and possible equipment and mechanical failures added to the dangers of combat. All factors, from combat conditions to topographical obstacles, made the objective almost impossible. The Germans believed that whatever the invasion would be, it couldn’t include Pointe Du Hoc." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

We close out this season with a two-part episode with interviews that highlight those who voluntarily go into professions we naturally take for granted – until we need them. Some of these professions are dangerous. Others are gross, uncomfortable, and thankless. None of these people have YouTube channels or millions of followers. They are gritty, graphic, and authentic. Those that choose such careers are a different breed of person, and as we end the season, we want you to hear from them, listen to their stories, and understand that no matter where you are, you are surrounded by heroes every day. Part Two will be live next Monday, July 17. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

The 15-Minute History team remembers Queen Elizabeth II.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for part two of our interview with Ray Boomhower about his book, Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam. In this special discussion, Mr. Boomhower explains why Tregaskis felt compelled to go to the front, the reasons he felt the burden to tell the story of the soldier in combat, how he saw reporting change during Korea and Vietnam, and more. Ray E. Boomhower is a senior editor at the Indiana Historical Society Press, where he edits the popular history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. A former newspaper reporter, Boomhower has written extensively on World War II media history, including biographies of such noted war correspondents as Scripps-Howard columnist Ernie Pyle and Time magazine reporter Robert L. Sherrod. Boomhower has also published biographies of fighter ace Alex Vraciu, war photographer John A. Bushemi, Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom, long-form journalist, and political speechwriter John Bartlow Martin. Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam is available wherever books are sold. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for part one of our interview with Ray Boomhower about his book, Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam. In this special discussion, Mr. Boomhower explains why Tregaskis is considered one of the bravest war correspondents of all time, what compelled him to take the dangerous assignments, breaks down what drove him to go back to the front lines after being severely injured, and more.  Ray E. Boomhower is a senior editor at the Indiana Historical Society Press, where he edits the popular history magazine Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. A former newspaper reporter, Boomhower has written extensively on World War II media history, including biographies of such noted war correspondents as Scripps-Howard columnist Ernie Pyle and Time magazine reporter Robert L. Sherrod. Boomhower has also published biographies of fighter ace Alex Vraciu, war photographer John A. Bushemi, Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom, long-form journalist, and political speechwriter John Bartlow Martin. Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam is available wherever books are sold.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for part two of our interview with James Philips to discuss his book, Two Revolutions and the Constitution | How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitution. In this discussion, we talk about taxation without representation, what it means to put principles ahead of prosperity, the Articles of Confederation...and more. James D.R. Philips studied at the Universities of Oxford and Sydney and holds degrees in liberal arts and in law. He has been a successful mergers and acquisitions attorney for more than thirty years and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Sydney's Law School. He held leadership positions at two law firms and is now a non-executive director of several organizations, including a leading Australian public-policy-research institute. Philips first read the American Constitution in school and began reading about the English revolutionary and American colonial periods in 2005. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for part one of our interview with James Philips to discuss his book, Two Revolutions and the Constitution | How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitution. In this special discussion, we talk about the origins of the book, the links between the US and British constitutions, the power of personality within history...and more. James D.R. Philips studied at the Universities of Oxford and Sydney and holds degrees in liberal arts and in law. He has been a successful mergers and acquisitions attorney for more than thirty years and is a visiting lecturer at the University of Sydney's Law School. He held leadership positions at two law firms and is now a non-executive director of several organizations, including a leading Australian public-policy-research institute. Philips first read the American Constitution in school and began reading about the English revolutionary and American colonial periods in 2005. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for part two of our interview with the eminent British historian, Dr. Dominic Selwood about his book, Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents. In this special discussion, Dr. Selwood continues explaining specific historical moments in British history, the importance of not looking for the simple answer to complex problems (historical and current), and tells us why everyone should be a student of history.  Dr. Dominic Selwood is a historian, journalist, and barrister. He is a bestselling author and novelist, and a frequent contributor to national newspapers, radio, and TV including The Telegraph, The Independent, The Spectator, The Catholic Herald, Sky News, and the BBC. He has a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford and a masters from the Sorbonne. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served as an officer in the British Army. He lives in London with his family. https://www.dominicselwood.com/ Twitter: @DominicSelwood. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for part one of our interview with the eminent British historian, Dr. Dominic Selwood about his book, Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents. In this special discussion, Dr. Selwood explains the origins of the book, the power of story in history, and answers some of our questions about the different documents he covers.  Dr. Dominic Selwood is a historian, journalist, and barrister. He is a bestselling author and novelist, and a frequent contributor to national newspapers, radio, and TV including The Telegraph, The Independent, The Spectator, The Catholic Herald, Sky News, and the BBC. He has a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford and a masters from the Sorbonne. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served as an officer in the British Army. He lives in London with his family. https://www.dominicselwood.com/ Twitter: @DominicSelwood.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

In August 2019, The New York Times commemorated the four hundred-year anniversary of the first black Africans arriving in the New World by launching a long-form journalism project called the 1619 Project. Developed by Nikole Hannah-Jones, the project was designed to shift the focus of American history away from the American Revolution and hone in on the experiences of black Americans both before and after the Civil War. The 1619 Project immediately attracted both praise and criticism from historians and pundits alike and became another partisan football in the ongoing culture war that rages in the United States. There isn't time to address the many controversies that arose from the project in this episode, though I expect Joe will ask me about several in our discussion. Instead, for this final "what if" bonus episode, I want to look at how American history might be changed if what the 1619 Project's authors believe was factually true—what our country might have done differently if, as Nikole Hannah-Jones and others believe, the United States of America was actually founded to protect slavery and promote white supremacy.   What if, as the authors of the 1619 Project suggest, the United States was founded on oppression and slavery? Join us for our final episode in the "What if?" series as we explore this question.   Season Five of 15-Minute History will begin on Monday, October 4.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the final episode in our "What if?" series, "The 1619 Project".  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

From 1531-1532, Pizzaro and his group conquered and destroyed the Inca Civilization. Climbing the Andes Mountains, they probably never questioned the ability of the Inca Empire to feed itself in the absence of cattle and wheat. That was, by most estimations, the farthest thing from the mind of the conqueror. Amongst the riches they stole and the mining they conducted, a resource emerged that McNeill believes would have altered history had it not been discovered and transplanted throughout the world. That discovery was the potato.   What if Pizzaro hadn't brought the potato to Europe?    Join us as we continue asking "What if", discuss what might have happened if the conquistador had left the potato behind in the ruins of his conquest, and how such a decision would have changed the world we know today.     --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss, "What if" | Pizzaro and the Potato. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

"Cortés and his men leapt across the breach in the causeway to pursue the fleeing Aztecs, only to see them turn and attack. Drawn into the trap, Cortés and sixty-eight other Spaniards were captured and dragged off, leaving scores of others dead on the road. Ten captives were killed immediately, and…the remaining fifty-eight were taken to the towering Great Temple, which could plainly be seen from the Spaniards' camp, made to dance before the statue of the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli, and then, on by one, they were sacrificed…Cortés escaped this fate only through the intervention of Cristóbal de Olea, who sprang to his defense, killed the four Aztecs who were dragging him off, and freed his leader at the cost of his own life. The very conquest of Mexico hung on this single act." — Ross Hassig, "The Immolation of Hernán Cortés    What if Cortés had died on the causeway or at any other point in his dangerous career? Join us as we continue asking "What if", speak to what might have happened if the conquistador had met his end at the hands of those he sought to conquer, and how our world might be different today.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss What If? | The Immolation of Hernán Cortés. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

General Marshall had arrived early in 1946 with orders from Harry Truman to build a coalition government that included both Communists and Nationalists in China. Mao Tse Tung eagerly accepted Marshall’s intervention, continuing his public relations campaign to depict the Chinese Communist Party as kinder and gentler than its Stalinist counterpart in Moscow. But Chiang, who had chafed at having to accept help from the Americans during the war with Japan, rejected Marshall’s interference and refused to compromise with Mao.    Frustrated by the Nationalists’ intransigence, General Marshall delivered an ultimatum in June 1946: agree to a ceasefire in Manchuria and open negotiations with Mao, or the United States would cut off all military aid to Chiang’s forces in the field. The proud Nationalist leader accepted these terms at first, and when talks broke down he tried to resume the advance. But it was too late. America kept its word and ended military aid to Chiang’s government, and Mao had used the brief respite to rearm his men with Soviet weapons. Within two years, Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces had been driven off the mainland onto the island of Formosa, where they formed the Republic of China, while Mao Tse Tung ruled the victorious People’s Republic of China from Beijing.   What if Chiang had ignored Marshall’s ultimatum entirely, taken the Harbin stronghold, and then negotiated directly with Mao from a position of strength?  Join us as we continue asking "What if", examine the effects of what might of happened, and wonder what our world might be like today.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss What If? | Victory at Harbin. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

The raft floated in the midst of the River Niemen. On it were two beautiful pavilions, one for the Emperor of the French and the other for the Czar and Autocrat of All the Russias. In the French tent, Napoleon Bonaparte argued with his foreign minister, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, over how harsh the peace terms with the defeated Russians should be. Talleyrand, a servant of every revolutionary government since 1789, was a snake in silk stockings, but he knew foreign policy better than anyone else in the emperor’s entourage. He begged the emperor to treat Russia gently and put an end to fifteen years of war. But Napoleon, flush with the victory at Friedland earlier that year, was determined to humiliate Alexander I, and Talleyrand, ever the obedient servant in public, fell silent. What if Napoleon had heeded Talleyrand’s advice in 1807 and treated the Russians with more respect? What would our world look like today if history had taken a different course? In this series of bonus episodes on “15-Minute History,” Joe and I will be sharing some of our favorite “What If?” scenarios from this series with you. Building on the theme of Season Four, learning from history, we hope to provide some lessons on how individuals shape the destinies of large groups and entire nations. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss, What if? | The Lasting Peace at Tilst. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss Season Four of the 15-Minute History Podcast, ask each other questions we neglected throughout the season, and talk about Season Five and the bonus episodes you can expect during the break.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Twenty-one men sat in the dock awaiting their fate. Once the leaders of Europe's mightiest nation who had strutted proudly across the world stage arrogantly proclaiming the supremacy of the Aryan race, their faces remained defiant as their empire lay in ruins outside. Some showed open contempt for the victors who now sat in judgment over them. Others sat quietly, their faces frozen and their eyes fixed forward. Some even looked surprised at having been charged with crimes against humanity, since they were "just following orders." Their leader, now dead, had commanded them to murder millions, and as good Germans, they had done just that. Now, with the world's most terrible war at an end, they would face justice. Join us as we teach you about the Nuremberg Trials, the monsters who faced justice, and the radicalism that corrupted an entire nation.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the Nuremberg Trials, the monsters who faced justice, and the radicalism that corrupted an entire nation.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

The last landing was unique. It was a 100-foot cliff facing the English Channel, situated between Utah and Omaha beach. At the top of the cliff were 155mm guns with a range of 3.5 miles that could fire on both Utah and Omaha beaches and cause maximum casualties. The challenges facing these men were obvious, with the sheer rock face and no cover, and they would be easy targets for the Germans. In addition, the choppy sea and possible equipment and mechanical failures added to the dangers of combat. All factors, from combat conditions to topographical obstacles, made the objective almost impossible. The Germans believed that whatever the invasion would be, it couldn’t include Pointe Du Hoc. Join us as we teach you about the impossible landing at Pointe du Hoc, its role in Operation Overlord, and the story of the heroic Rangers who scaled and took the hill under direct enemy fire.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the impossible landing at Pointe du Hoc, its role in Operation Overlord, and the story of the heroic Rangers who scaled and took the hill under direct enemy fire.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

In Great Britain calls for negotiations with Hitler were on the rise, with some leaders in the House of Commons outright promoting it. Churchill wouldn’t hear of it. “I have thought carefully in these last days whether it was part of my duty to consider entering into negotiations with That Man,” he said in an informal meeting with his Cabinet. “I am convinced that every man of you would rise up and tear me down from my place if I were for one moment to contemplate parley or surrender. If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.” Churchill would reiterate such sentiments in one of the most famous speeches in his career, given to the House of Commons after the evacuation of Dunkirk on June 6th. “Even though huge tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall never surrender.” Join us for part two of the life of Winston Churchill, from his taking of the Premiership to the leading of the English people through one of the darkest periods in history.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss part two of the life of Winston Churchill, from his taking of the Premiership to the leading of the English people through one of the darkest periods in history.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

As stated by Andrew Roberts in his book, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, "Before the new MP had even taken his seat, he had fought in four wars, published five books, written 215 newspaper and magazine articles, participated in the greatest cavalry charge in a half a century and made a spectacular escape from prison. ‘At twenty-five, he had fought in more continents than any soldier in his tour save Napoleon,’ a contemporary profile of him was to proclaim, ‘and seen as many campaigns as any living general.’”   Join us for part one of two episodes on the life of Winston Churchill, from his childhood to becoming the Prime Minister of Great Britain.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for part one of two discussions on the life of Winston Churchill, from his childhood to becoming the Prime Minister of Great Britain.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

In 1814, as the empire of Napoleon Bonaparte crumbled from the onslaught of the Sixth Coalition powers, the people of Paris felt the ground shudder as cannon shells burst outside the city walls. A year later, the returned emperor's defeat at Waterloo had brought the Germans back to their beloved "City of Lights." In 1870, Paris was besieged by the armies of Kaiser Wilhelm I, and twice during the First World War, it seemed as though the jewel of France might fall into the hands of the great enemy across the Rhine. Each time, the guns of the Prussian armies made their way to the front from the great ironworks of Essen owned by the Krupps, the most powerful family in the German-speaking world after the royal House of Hohenzollern. The Krupp dynasty wielded its power not through the might of armies but the output of its industry. Joined at the hip with the rulers in Berlin, the arms of Krupp built the modern German state and empowered it to liberate a continent from French hegemony and then plunge the world into not one but two world wars. Join us as we teach you about the destructive history of the Krupp family, their empire, and the dangers of corporatism.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the destructive history of the Krupp family, their empire, and the dangers of corporatism.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Around him lay the carnage of battle, men killed or nursing wounds. Smoke filled the air and burned the colonel's lungs. His depleted regiment had already repelled three attacks by rebels charging up the hill and was nearing the end of their strength. And yet the grey-coats kept coming. His superior's orders rang in his ears, "You must hold the line." Looking around, he thought to himself, "What more can we do?" Then it came to him, an order not often given in these days of modern war. Standing tall, he gave instructions to his battalion and company commanders, and then shouted a single word to those men still standing—"Bayonets!" Join us as we teach you about the end of the American Civil War, the failings of Reconstruction, and the long-term effects of this conflict on our nation's history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the end of the American Civil War, the failings of Reconstruction, and the long-term effects of this conflict on our nation's history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

The streets of Washington buzzed with the news. Now seven states had seceded from the Union, and the country stood on the brink. The White House saw streams of officials entering and leaving as the president summoned the Cabinet and members of Congress to find a solution to the country's plight. Most believed that his inaction the previous December had led to this moment, while others pointed to the results of the election as the breaking point. Regardless of who was to blame, something had to be done. Federal troops in Fort Sumter were in a precarious position and calling for aid. A ship had been dispatched to resupply them but could not land its cargo because of fire from rebel batteries. As he sat in his office on the second floor of the White House, the President of the United States knew that he could not reunite the country. His term would end at noon the following day. His successor, whose election had precipitated the great crisis of the Union, would now have to solve it. Join us in the first of a two-part episode where we teach you about the American Civil War and its effect on our history.    Access this transcript at www.15minutehistorypodcast.org and please leave us a review wherever you listen to this podcast.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the beginnings of the American Civil War, the vile and evil institution of slavery, and the beginning of the bloody process by which it was finally brought to an end.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

The concept of moving water from one place to the other has been on the minds of humans since their creation. Conversely, the desire to move soiled water away automatically has – at times – been considered equally important. The means by which this could be done has evolved as civilizations have come and gone. In all of them, a basic pattern emerged in plumbing conception and construction: the path, the pipe, and the seal. Join us as we teach you a brief history of plumbing, its evolution through the ages, and the influence of Thomas Crapper on plumbing technology and sanitation practices.  Access this transcript at www.15minutehistorypodcast.org and please leave us a review wherever you listen to this podcast.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the history of plumbing, the influence of Thomas Crapper, and the legacy of the pipe, the path, and the seal.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

It is very common throughout history to see periods of great innovation and artistic expression follow times of great turmoil and death. The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) were some of the worst years in the history of Europe, and in their wake, many artists, writers, philosophers, and common people took stock of what they had just endured.   Join us as we teach you about the age of Romanticism and its effect on culture, art, and the sciences.    Access this transcript at www.15minutehistorypodcast.org and please leave us a review wherever you listen to this podcast.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the age of Romanticism and its effect on culture, art, and the sciences.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

"At the turn of the 18th century, the greatest nations in Europe, separated by only 21 miles of water, offered two distinct ideologies that would shape the new century. In England, there was democratic, constitutional monarchy; in France, the cataclysm of revolution had dragged the absolute King from the throne and replaced him with the Mob. Out of the maelstrom emerged a military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, commander of the revolutionary army, who went on to conquer Italy and Egypt before returning to Paris to proclaim himself Emperor. As Napoleon gained power in France, the world stood on the brink of total war. For out of the furnace of the Napoleonic Wars, the modern world was born." — Robert Harvey, The War of Wars, 2006 — Join us as we teach you about the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, his effect on France and Europe, and the enduring legacy of his reign and influence. Access this transcript at www.15minutehistorypodcast.org and please leave us a review wherever you listen to this podcast. It really does help!  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, his effect on France and Europe, and the enduring legacy of his reign and influence.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the French Revolution, why it happened, how it transpired, and its effects on the world at the time and history as a whole.    Access this transcript at www.15minutehistorypodcast.org. Please leave us a review wherever you listen to this podcast. It really does help! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the French Revolution, why it happened, how it transpired, and its effects on the world at the time and history as a whole.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the first vaccines, two examples from recent history, how they work, and the impact they have had on the practice of medicine.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the first vaccines, two examples from recent history, how they work, and the impact they have had on the practice of medicine and society as a whole.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about Elizabeth I, the history behind her ascendency to the throne, and her leadership in repelling the Spanish Armada.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss Elizabeth I, the history behind her ascendency to the throne, and her leadership in repelling the Spanish Armada.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for this special Thanksgiving episode as we teach you about several events that happened this week in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the genius of Michelangelo Buonarroti, his timeless works of art, and the legacy he left behind.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the genius of Michelangelo Buonarroti, his timeless works of art, and the legacy he left behind.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about Renaissance Humanism and how the world emerged from the Middle Ages into a new age.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss Renaissance Humanism and how the world emerged from the Middle Ages.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we once again teach you about the good and bad of history in film.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we once again discuss the good and bad of history in film.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you the rich history of Mont St Michel, the role it served in European history, how it inspired Peter Jackson for the Lord of The Rings, and what it's like to experience it for the first time. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the rich history of Mont St Michel, the role it served in European history, how it inspired Peter Jackson for the Lord of The Rings, and what it's like to experience it for the first time. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the great plague and how it almost broke the known world.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the great plague that almost broke the known world.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the daily life, culture, and politics of the Middle Ages and why it was also called, The Dark Ages.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the daily life, culture, and politics of the Middle Ages.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the magic of Paris from the book, The Seven Ages of Paris, by Alistair Horne. Learn how this book influenced one of Jon's many experiences in the City of Lights.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the magic of Paris from the book, The Seven Ages of Paris, by Alistair Horne. Learn more about how this book influenced one of Jon's many experiences in the City of Lights.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about Epaminondas, his victories, and his way of life.    --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss Epaminondas, his victories, and his way of life.   --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about anacyclosis and its importance in how we understand history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss anacyclosis and its importance in how we understand history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us in the first podcast of Season #4 where we discuss three events in history that can better help us understand our world today. Season #4 is about the importance of learning history and the perspective it offers. By looking at the past, we may better be able to understand our future.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the first podcast of Season #4 and the many important topics covered in the episode.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for the fourth and final episode of a four-part series on rational economics. In this episode, Jon discusses the concept of profit and how this concept will be the key to recovery in an economic crisis.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for the third of a four-part series on rational economics. In this episode, Jon discusses how supply and demand are affected in an economic crisis and the effects of both on the stock market in the short- and long-term.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for the second of a four-part series on rational economics. In this episode, Jon discusses the costs incurred during an economic crisis. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for the first of a four-part series on rational economics. In this episode, Jon discusses the effects of fear during an economic crisis.    --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us in the last episode of the season as we teach you about the events of 2016, and why they were turning points in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the events of 2016 and why those events were turning points in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the end of the Cold War and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the end of the Cold War and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the Russian Revolution and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the Russian Revolution and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you colonialism on the African continent, the quest for empire, and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the colonialism on the African continent and quest for empire.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the discovery of germ theory and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the discovery of germ theory, and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about Alexander Fleming, the discovery of penicillin, and why the discovery of antibiotics was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for this BONUS episode where we discuss and rate the movie, 1917.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as teach you about the American and French Revolutions, the difference between the two, and why each was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the American and French Revolutions, the difference between them, and why each was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about The German Peasants' War and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the German Peasants War and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the fall of Constantinople and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the fall of Constantinople and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us for this special, combined episode of the Storm of War, The History of World War II from Season One of 15-Minute History. This is the episode that started it all.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about Christopher Columbus and why his voyages were a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss Christopher Columbus and why his voyages were a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we share three stories about Thanksgiving and the art of being thankful.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about Marco Polo and why his actions during his life were a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the life of Marco Polo and why his actions were a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the Mongol Golden Horde, how they established the largest empire in history, and why their march across the known world was a turning point.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the Mongol Golden Horde, their conquest across the known world, and why their rule was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the First Crusade, and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss Urban II, the First Crusade, and the many turning points it caused in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the Battle of Hastings and why it was a turning point in English history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the Battle of Hastings and why it was a turning point in English history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about Charles Martel and how he changed history forever.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss Charles Martel and how he changed history forever.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about the Nicene Creed and why it was a turning in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the Nicene Creed and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we teach you about why (or why not) the death and life of Jesus Christ was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss the death and life of Christ and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support

Join us as we discuss The Second Punic War, its effect on the Roman Empire and why it was a turning point in history.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support