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Atomic Accountability
Nov 28, 2025Dan visits with Professor Alex Wellerstein, whose new book about Truman and the dropping of the atomic bombs will challenge everything you think you know about the subject.
Sledgehammer and Big Shot
Jul 05, 2025Henry Sledge, son of Eugene Sledge, writer of the classic war memoir "With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa" has released a book that includes tons of material left out of his dad's memoir along w...
The Show with Mike Rowe
Mar 29, 2025Dan has an extended and completely unplanned conversation with TV and podcast host Mike Rowe about jobs, history, media, politics and the current zeitgeist.
Kushite Conversations
Jan 13, 2025Dan talks with writer, broadcaster and journalist Zeinab Badawi about the ancient African kingdom of Kush and her book on African history.
So, you say you want a revolution?
Aug 01, 2024This show could also have been called "Violent Reflections" as Dan repurposes old work he did on the revolutionary era of the late 1960s. This is NOT a deep HH-style look at the period, but is instead...
The Handmaidens of the Apocalypse
Apr 05, 2024Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Dan to discuss the contents of her new book which, using insider and expert information, dramatically outlines how a nuclear war might unfold.
Superhumanly Inhuman
Feb 16, 2024This show starts off with an extended discussion of the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust and the associated dangers of extreme governmental power followed by an interview with Holocaust expert and hi...
More Steppe Stories
Aug 16, 2023Huns, Mongols, Turks, Scythians and other nomadic steppe tribes are longtime interests of Dan's. In this show he interviews historian Kenneth W. Harl who specializes in the study of those fascinating ...
Dig This!
May 31, 2023Daniele Bolelli the fabulous host of "History on Fire" and I fanboy out over archaeology. We had some inexplicable audio problems at times with the recording, so hopefully that doesn't detract from th...
The Long View
Apr 01, 2023Dan tries focusing a much wider historical lens on perennial human issues like war, land ownership, immigration, ethnicity, environmental worries and the double-edged sword that is human inventiveness...