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The HistoryNet Podcast features some of the greatest stories from HistoryNet.com's archive of over 25,000+ features. From ancient Rome to the Middle Ages, from the 18th century to the edge of recent memory, we zero in on the people and events that made the world what it is today. Vividly written by expert authors, thoroughly edited and fact-checked by magazine professionals, these stories bring history to vibrant life. The narrators of this podcast, however, are not human beings but AI voices created by our partner, Instaread.co. Say what you will about AI, but in this case the voices are surprisingly real, capturing well the nuances of the articles they're reading aloud. To read those stories in their original form, please go to historynet.com. For advertising inquires, please contact advertisingsales@mco.com.

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    This British Colonel Traveled with Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg. He?d Already Had His Share of Surprises..mp3

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2024 15:50


    Nobody wanted the A-10 Warthog — now It's the military's most beloved plane

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2024 22:10


    The A-10 Warthog has survived repeated attempts to put it out to pasture. Now its time may finally be up.

    They were sent on a suicide mission at Cedar Creek. Their victory rallied the Union.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 12:00


    The fierce clash proved to be a fitting coda for the resolute 8th Vermont.

    They say he burned down the Reichstag. But was he drugged into confessing?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2024 10:35


    Mystery surrounds the infamous burning of the Reichstag in 1933.

    Kars fortress stands as a monument to a turbulent past

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2024 21:09


    For centuries Armenian residents of the Transcaucasian stronghold of Kars watched invaders come and go—until its final betrayal.

    This journalist risked his life to reveal the horrors of lynching in the South

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2024 19:57


    Lynching investigator Walter White risked everything to tell Americans the truth.

    John Fetterman isn't the first ill politician to serve. Here are examples from history

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2024 8:27


    From the Founding Fathers to the present day, illness has impacted politics.

    The death of Crazy Horse: Fables and forensics

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2024 8:55


    Just who killed the Lakota fighting man remains in dispute.

    The Ercoupe is easy to fly — but you better not be in a hurry

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2024 10:35


    It was supposed to be an airplane for the people.

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    These Civil War warriors fought with the pen, and not the sword

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2024 8:31


    Partisan poets stoked the fire to keep the South's combat spirit alive.

    The mysterious death of Johnny Ringo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2024 15:27


    The gunman's body was found beneath a tree, pistol in hand—but was it suicide?

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    Minié ball: The Civil War bullet that changed history

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 10:37


    What's a Minié ball, and why was this type of bullet—which is actually conical—used extensively during the American Civil War?

    What if the Marines had skipped Iwo Jima

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2024 8:10


    What would have happened if the U.S. hadn't sent men to take this small atoll, site of that iconic photo? Would it have cost the war?

    This German baroness dodged cannonballs during the American Revolution

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2024 8:47


    Hessian officer's wife Frederika von Riedesel and her children were nearly shot during the battle of Saratoga.

    'Weary of So Much Suffering': Letters from the Sheridan Field Hospital

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2024 19:04


    Nurse Jane Boswell Moore wrote poignant letters about her interactions with the patients of this Winchester, Va., hospital.

    'Medicine Flower' Brought the West East

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2024 8:11


    Ethnologist Frank Cushing embraced Zuni culture right down to his Indian name.

    Kidnapped during World War II, these German corpses proved a headache for the U.S. Army

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2024 13:19


    Four dead Germans traveled on a wild journey, resulting in what the Monuments Men called "Operation Bodysnatch".

    This Supreme Court ruling on prayer in public schools made America go nuts

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 7:44


    On June 25, 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court declared prayer in public schools unconstitutional.

    Robert E. Lee endured a precipitous reset in Maryland

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2024 27:21


    Though the Lost Orders forced the Confederate commander to fight on unfavorable ground at Sharpsburg, he survived the bloody clash with his army intact.

    Meet the man who sent the world's largest flying machine to its doom

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 10:09


    Christopher Birdwood Thomson was determined to fly the R101 airship to India, whether it was ready for the trip or not.

    One of this Western director's scenes looked so real that it provoked actual gunfire

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2024 7:19


    In 1902, Harry Buckwalter teamed with William Selig to make short-reel Westerns.

    Zap! American railroads go electric

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2024 23:02


    After 70 years of steam and smoke, American rail began to plug in.

    Joe Hooker was an ineffectual general, but does he deserve credit for transforming the Union cavalry?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2024 8:06


    Hooker had his shortcomings, but what he did in revitalizing his army's cavalry corps was monumental.

    Napoleon's imperial guard tells of his fight for the emperor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2024 11:27


    An infantry captain who served in Napoleon's elite troops tells of the army's quest for glory.

    Sharpshooter Billy Dixon owes his legacy to his widow

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2024 16:16


    Olive Dixon spent 40 years making sure Texans would always remember her heroic husband.

    This German general made a deal with the devil

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2024 19:29


    German General Ludwig Beck supported the Nazis—until he didn't. He paid with his life.

    WWI American pilots wanted a great fighter plane. Instead, they got the Nieuport 28

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2024 21:23


    The Americans flying in World War I wanted the Spad XIII. They got the Nieuport 28 instead.

    One family, 10 sieges: How Spain's Guzman family spent centuries battling for Gibraltar

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2024 12:43


    The Guzman family's quest to dominate the Rock of Gibraltar gives the phrase “family feud” a whole new meaning.

    The Turkestan Incident

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2024 16:23


    How two F-105 pilots and their commander got entangled in the geopolitics of the Vietnam War.

    The Arikara War: avenging Americans

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 20:34


    Entrepreneur William Ashley's attempt to trade for Arikara horses led to a ‘beach' battle that inflicted 30 percent casualties on his brigade and inspired an outraged Colonel Henry Leavenworth to punish the Missouri River tribe.

    No, the London Blitz wasn't started by accident

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024 11:57


    It is becoming commonly accepted that the German night bombing of London on Aug. 24, 1940 was due to a “blunder” of Luftwaffe pilots.

    When is a Mustang not a Mustang?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2024 14:27


    Australia's CA-15 was one of the world's fastest piston-engine fighters, but it was obsolete by the time it first flew.

    White Oaks, New Mexico: the onetime haunt of Billy the Kid

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2024 13:36


    The New Mexico Territory town had a violent beginning, as Billy the Kid and other outlaws came here to sell stolen livestock, drink, shoot and otherwise blow off steam.

    When a Vietnamese ally was wounded, two American soldiers had to choose obedience or compassion

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 24:03


    There was a time when U.S. helicopters were forbidden from rescuing wounded South Vietnamese soldiers.

    Nobody could scale the walls of China's Forbidden City except this American soldier

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2024 13:11


    A young American bugler turned the tide in China's 1900 Boxer Rebellion.

    This British officer developed a revolutionary rifle whose worth he was never able to prove in battle

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2024 20:21


    Major Patrick Ferguson earned his nickname for his dogged determination to remain in the American Revolutionary War and bring the upstart Patriots to heel.

    The last surviving widow of the Civil War

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2024 12:57


    A Missouri woman sacrificed much of her own life to help an aged Union veteran.

    The old world soldier who conquered the new

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2024 22:46


    In 1519 Hernán Cortés set out to invade the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, his boldness earning Spain a foothold in the Americas.

    The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was a great airplane until the propellers started falling off

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2024 20:59


    Pan American World Airways wanted something special. Boeing responded with the 377.

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    The balloon pilots who went boldly where only animals had gone before

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2024 20:31


    Project Manhigh took pilots to the edge of space.

    Lewis and Clark's race against Spain

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 24:39


    Thomas Jefferson had his eyes on Louisiana, and so did Spain.

    The assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2024 24:08


    Did the bloody downfall of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem put the United States on a slippery slope into a quagmire?

    This 1945 New Guinea plane crash survivor became known as the Queen of Shangri-La

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2024 20:34


    In 1945 Women's Army Corps Cpl. Margaret Hastings went down aboard a C-47 in a remote New Guinea valley, launching an improbable story of survival.

    The bomber that almost wasn't

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 18:09


    WWII's Convair B-32 Dominator never got the chance to live up to its name.

    Mexican War: The proving ground for future American Civil War generals

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2024 40:41


    For young American army officers of the time, the Mexican War was not only the road to glory, it was the road to promotion — a proving ground for future Civil War generals.

    Most POWs want to go home — but after World War II, some faced death on arrival

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2024 17:47


    After WWII, questions rose about which nation POWs belonged to or even whether they would be killed upon going home.

    Patsy Cline's final flight

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2024 15:43


    What the fatal airplane crash of the country star says about flying then and now.

    One week before this pioneering aviator's tragic death, an American watched him work

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2024 19:41


    German inventor Otto Lilienthal had flown more than 2,000 times before his glider failed him.

    The man behind Monty

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 21:18


    Bernard Law Montgomery's chief of staff, Sir Francis de Guingand, made things easier for a difficult general.

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    Marilyn Monroe's Death: Early victim of the opioid epidemic

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2024 22:10


    Once a Hollywood scourge, opioid overdoses are now an everyday plague across America. She was one of its most famous victims.

    The 100 greatest generals of all time

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2024 24:10


    These are the most important military leaders in history, from the classical era to the present day.

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