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Hosted by Rick Beyer and Christopher Anderson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 207 episodes
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Crowd into the virtual bar with Chris Anderson and Rick Beyer to plumb intoxicating history topics and kibbitz over juicy tidbits. Each week, Chris and Rick invite a guest author to share cocktails and talk history. Like who? Like Andrew Roberts, Joe Balkoski, Chris Wallace, Lynne Olson, and Hampton Sides, for example. You never know who'll stop by. History Happy Hour, where history is always on tap. Brought to you by Stephen Ambrose Historical Tours – and our loyal Patreon patrons.
Rick Beyer and Christopher Anderson hosts History Happy Hour, a history show with 207 episodes published.
This week on History Happy Hour: Henry Starr was a bank-robber, one of the most successful in history. Until he was caught. When he got out, he became a movie star, playing himself. Until he went back to bank-robb
This week on History Happy Hour: We welcome back historian John McManus to talk about the third volume of his Pacific War series, To the End of the Earth . From the liberation of the Philippines to the Battle of O
This week on History Happy Hour: President Truman’s choice to drop the atomic bomb is the most debated decision in the 20th Century. But what if he, himself, did not fully understand the decisions being made until
This week on History Happy Hour: Life in Berlin during World War II. What was it like for the four million people who lived there as things became increasingly desperate? Our guest is author Ian Buruma, author of Stay Al
This week on History Happy Hour: This week on History Happy Hour: Follow the money. That’s one way to discover the real story of America and its founding. Nothing gives a clearer insight into this history tha
This week on History Happy Hour: We celebrate America’s 250th birthday to talk about the founders’ drinking! A perfect take for HHH! Historian Brook Barbier returns to the show to talk with us live about the
This week on History Happy Hour: Along with Guadalcanal in the Pacific, and Stalingrad in Russia, the Allies victory in North Africa was one of three Axis defeats that changed the course of the war in early 1943. The Afr
This week on History Happy Hour: The Declaration of Independence came to life in a boarding house in Philadelphia under the hand of Thomas Jefferson, captured the spirit of the American cause, and lives to this day. Scho
This week on History Happy Hour: World War II was unprecedented in its scope and ferocity. The heroism of the men and women who won the war may be well documented, but we know too little about the pain and hardships the
This week on History Happy Hour: To mark the 82nd Anniversary of D-Day, we will bring you a ninety-minute special edition of History Happy Hour looking back on the Normandy landings. Two of our favorite historians will j
This week on History Happy Hour: September 1943, the people of Denmark banded together to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens from a NAZI roundup by ferrying them to sanctuary in Sweden. Why were the Danes able to
This week on History Happy Hour: Chris and Rick are in Berchtesgaden to present an encore episode about The Hispanos of frontier New Mexico after the war with Mexico in 1848. Make sense? Probably not, but that’s the way
This week on History Happy Hour: Chris and Rick explore the story of two B-24 navigators from the same Illinois town, who find themselves in a famous bombing raid over Ploesti - and the woman who connects them. Our guest
This week on History Happy Hour: Chris and Rick welcome Robert Edsel, author of the book “Monuments Men,” to talk about his latest book “Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in Wor
This week on History Happy Hour: The shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present. Acclaimed historian Dr
This week on History Happy Hour: What drove the thinking of Hitler and his followers? How did ordinary Germans come to embrace an ideology of hate and destruction? In this encore episode, Chris and Rick talk with Laurenc
WE HAD A SCHEDULING ISSUE WITH THIS WEEK'S GUEST AND HE DID NOT APPEAR. WE WILL TRY TO RESCHEDULE. This week on History Happy Hour: President Truman’s choice to drop the atomic bomb is the most debated decision in the 20
This week on History Happy Hour: The little-known story of FBI agents who went undercover to hunt down U.S. traitors on foreign soil during World War II. The goal: to identify and capture U.S. citizens plotting against t
This week on History Happy Hour: We travel back to the six critical months before Adolf Hitler seized power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph and ruin. As financial backers withdrew, the Nazi Party threatene
This week on History Happy Hour: Eighty years ago, Japan surrendered to the Allies after three of the most devastating bombing attacks of the war – two nuclear weapons and the fire-bombing of Tokyo. What was the decision
Chris Anderson
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Richard Overy
historian of the Second World War and expert on totalitarian regimes and military conflict
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Dan King
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1 appearance on this show
Cheryl Thompson
advocate for equity in nursing education
1 appearance on this show
Alexander Rose
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Helen Fry
leading expert on espionage and clandestine operations
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Jack Kelly
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1 appearance on this show
David Nasaw
historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of "The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II" · CUNY Graduate Center
1 appearance on this show
John McManus
military historian specialising in the United States Army · Clermont Soil & Water Conservation District
2 appearances on this show
Tim Brady
Brady's Distillery
1 appearance on this show
Scott Ellsworth
author of “The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball’s Lost Triumph”
1 appearance on this show
Becky Aikman
1 appearance on this show
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