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Walking in the footsteps of history, fifteen minutes at a time. Join us for a 15-minute episode covering a person, place, or event in history, and stay for an extended discussion. New episodes and discussions every week.
Unknown Host hosts 15-Minute History, a history show with 508 episodes published.
During the summer break, the 15-Minute History team will be republishing some of your favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on November 14, 2022. --- "I once knew a little boy whose mother and father died when
Why do people continue to believe the worst about historical villains even if the facts prove they aren't quite as bad as some people thought? Join us every Thursday this summer for new pop quizzes and on Mondays for reb
During the summer break, the 15-Minute History team will be republishing some of your favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on October 20, 2025. --- America is often described as a nation of ideas because its
Why do politicians always call back to an idea--real or imagined--of the past? Is it as simple as wanting to make their country great again, or is there a deeper motivation? Join us every Thursday this summer for new pop
During the summer break, the 15-Minute History team will be republishing some of your favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on February 9, 2026. --- American progressives at the turn of the 20th century saw ma
Would Britain have surrendered if Germany had destroyed its army at Dunkirk? This week, Joe and Jon explore one of the classic "what ifs" of the Second World War. Join us every Thursday this summer for new pop quizzes an
The Europeans may envy America's mighty air conditioners, but what would our country look like without this wondrous invention? Join us every Thursday for new Pop Quizzes this summer!
During the summer break, the 15-Minute History team will be republishing some of your favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on November 17, 2025. --- Detroit falls without a fight. War Hawks demand blood. But
Jon didn't give his students a reading list this summer, but if he had, what books would he have assigned? Join us every Monday for rebroadcast episodes this summer and on Thursdays for new Pop Quizzes! (Even when they'r
During the summer break, the 15-Minute History team will be republishing some of your favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on November 3, 2025. --- In the popular mind, John Adams' life and one term as Presid
How do we know when a political party goes "too far" on policy? And what happens when there is a backlash against their ideas? Join us every week this summer for rebroadcast episodes and new pop quizzes!
During the summer break, the 15-Minute History team will be republishing some of your favorite episodes. This episode originally aired on January 26, 2026. --- "You must make your body." An asthmatic boy in wire-rimmed s
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we've re-recorded an episode from season 1 entitled "Their Safety and Happiness," which looks at the historical and philosophical roots of the docume
A political question this week -- what are sanctuary cities and where do they come from? Join us on Mondays this summer for rebroadcast episodes and on Thursdays for new Pop Quizzes. Stay tuned for some additional origin
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we've re-recorded an episode from season 1 entitled "Their Safety and Happiness," which looks at the historical and philosophical roots of the docume
Winston Churchill's insights into the Second World War's outbreak are a fascinating combination of prediction and justification. He knew Germany was a threat, but his postwar memoirs also include knowledge learned during
How did the Central Intelligence Agency both flourish and decline during the Cold War? What effects did both the Suez Crisis and Hungarian Revolution have on the wider world? And how might the world look different in a f
Welcome back to Sketches in History! This segment, just for kids, shows that history isn't just a story; it's an adventure. Join Lottie Archer as she dives into her extraordinary notebook, where sketches from history com
Presidents have always had to balance economic costs with national security. In the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower took what he called a "new look" at defense policy, which made fundamental changes to how the United States con
How close has America actually come to falling apart? Not in the way politicians throw the word "crisis" around today, but in real, documented, military-was-deployed, states-were-leaving moments. In this Pop Quiz episode
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