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Zachary Taylor, America's Only Homeless President
Oct 11, 2022Zachary Taylor might be America's most forgotten president. Most Americans don't know anything about him. There have been no major biographies on Taylor in decades. He doesn't even have a historic hom...
The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
Sep 19, 2022Grover Cleveland’s political career—a dizzying journey that saw him rise from obscure lawyer to president of the United States in just three years—was marked by contradictions. A politician of unchara...
History of the Papacy | Freemasonry, The Catholic Church and the Modern World
Sep 17, 2022This episode is a preview of History of the Papacy by Stephen Guerra, a podcast in the Parthenon Podcast network. Today we begin a two part conversation on the history of Freemasonry during the 19th c...
Why the Cold War Was America’s Longest and Weirdest War
Aug 31, 2022The Cold War was America's longest and most bizarre war. It was full of unlikely heroes and villains--people like Vasily Arkhipov who, although is little remembered today, literally saved the world fr...
Mankind's Greatest Adventure with Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise
Jul 20, 2022What is it like to travel to the moon? Only 24 human beings in all of history have known the answer to that question. One of those individuals is astronaut Fred Haise. Haise was a test pilot and astro...
If You Could Witness Any Five Events In History, What Would You Chose? With Steph Guerra
Jul 08, 2022It's every history nerd's fantasy: going back in time and personally witnessing a historical event. In this episode, our host Richard Lim and Stephen Guerra (History of the Papacy and Beyond the Big S...
What Event Would You Eliminate From History? (And You Can't Choose 9/11) | Parthenon Roundup
Jul 01, 2022In the Marvel series Loki, the all-powerful Time Variance Authority preserves the sacred timeline by "pruning" undesirable events from the timeline. In this roundup episode, the hosts of Parthenon Pod...
Nixon Refuses to Resign and Other Undelivered Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
Jun 24, 2022Great speeches can change the course of history. Not every speech, however, ends up getting delivered. Many, by twist of fate or some last-minute decision, end up being lost to history, such as Hillar...
The Great American Progressives (Roosevelt, Wilson, and Addams) and the Dawn of World War I
Jun 17, 2022In the first two decades of the 20th century, America stood poised to dominate the world economically and geopolitically--a fact underscore by the key role the United States played in World War I. Dur...
Queen Elizabeth II and Monarchy in the Modern World
Jun 08, 2022In the aftermath of the Queen's spectacular Platinum Jubilee, some might be asking some questions, such as why the United Kingdom still has a monarchy in the 21st century or what will history say abou...