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• 214: D-Day, Part I: From the First Quebec Conference to June 5, 1944

  October 19, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  “Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade.” This is the story of the preparations for D-Day.  In November, 1943 the “Big Three”–that is, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston…

• 213: Halloween Special VI: The ASEs & Guy de Maupassant

  October 5, 2026 · 42 min

  “‘What is that?' I asked. The Englishman answered calmly: 'It was my best enemy.’” This is the story of the little books that went to war, and the Frenchman whose ghosts we'll read by their light. In 1943, a consortium of American…

• Bonus: GTDS: NASA and the Commercialization of Space

  September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

  Following the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the government had to rethink space exploration. In 2006, NASA launched the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, allocating $500 million to encourage American…

• 212: The European Theater, 1943

  September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

  "Wing Ding, you're either crazy as hell or you've got balls." This is the story of the European Theater in 1943. As Allied bombers learn the brutal cost of daylight precision raids over Ploesti and Schweinfurt, Allied armies fight their…

• 15 (Second Edition): “We the People:” Constitution Making in Philly

  September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

  “What even is the Virginia Plan but democracy checked by democracy, or pork with a little change of the sauce?” This is the story of 55 men from 12 of the 13 sovereign states gathered at the Pennsylvania State House during the miserably…

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