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Breaking History
by The Free Press
Today: #179 in History on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 6 | #179 | #172 |
About the show
Sometimes the news moves so fast, you have to look closely to know if you’ve seen it before. And that’s what this show is about. Breaking History breaks down the news, by breaking down history. We cover everything from LBJ and the Roman Republic to Donald Trump and the chaos at Columbia. This twice a month show from The Free Press delivers the best historians, authors, and reporters by mining the archives of human experience to figure out the present. George Santayana wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Tune in to Breaking History to resist the repetition.
Latest episodes
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Iran’s Favourite Washington Pundit
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Who Owns the Declaration of Independence?
May 27, 2026 · 1 hr 18 minAs America approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, a quiet war is being waged over what the Declaration of Independence really means — with some on the new right dismissing it as globalist fantasy and some on the left reducing it…
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A New Series From The Free Press | The Lindbergh Conspiracies
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What the Founders Really Meant to Say
May 13, 2026 · 57 minRobert Parkinson is a historian at SUNY Binghamton who has spent 25 years studying the American Revolutionary period. His new book, Tyrants and Rogues, arrives just in time for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — and…
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Roald Dahl: Genius and Bigot
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