238 Episodes

  1. 99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now

    Published: 10/11/2021

  2. 98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley

    Published: 9/27/2021

  3. 97: The Gilded Age’s Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie

    Published: 9/13/2021

  4. 96: The War of the Currents: (Thomas Alva Edison v. Nikola Tesla & George Westinghouse)

    Published: 8/30/2021

  5. 95: "Several Thousand Things that Won't Work:" Thomas Alva Edison and His Electric Light

    Published: 8/16/2021

  6. 94: Epilogue to Gilded Age Part I (or Gilded Age interlude w/ Significant HTDS Updates)

    Published: 8/2/2021

  7. 93: La Liberté éclairant le monde: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty

    Published: 7/19/2021

  8. History That Doesn’t Suck, LIVE: The Boston Massacre, or the Incident at King Street

    Published: 7/5/2021

  9. 92: The Brooklyn Bridge, or the Story of the Roebling Family

    Published: 6/21/2021

  10. 91: The Gilded Age, Industrialization, and Assassination of President James Garfield

    Published: 6/7/2021

  11. 1 (Second Edition): That One Time When George Washington Sort of Triggered an International War

    Published: 5/24/2021

  12. Introducing: Real Dictators Podcast

    Published: 5/17/2021

  13. 90: Epilogue to the Wild West

    Published: 5/10/2021

  14. 89: Closing the Wild West: (Wounded Knee, Buffalo Bill & the 1893 Colombian Expo)

    Published: 4/26/2021

  15. 88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush

    Published: 4/12/2021

  16. 87:Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 2): Pearl Hart, Tombstone, Jesse James, B. Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

    Published: 3/29/2021

  17. 86: Gunslingers & Outlaws (pt 1): The Second Industrial Revolution, Sam Bass & Billy the Kid

    Published: 3/15/2021

  18. 85: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 3): The Central Pacific, Chinese Workers, & The Golden Spike

    Published: 3/1/2021

  19. 84: Transcontinental Railroad (pt 2): Dr. Thomas Durant, The Union Pacific & “Hell on Wheels”

    Published: 2/15/2021

  20. Introducing: Skeptoid!

    Published: 2/8/2021

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