J. Robert Oppenheimer is a tragic figure of American history whose accomplishments were all overshadowed by one thing; he was the father o...

This is unusual for me because I don’t normally review anything other than books on this blog. Still, here we are, and today I’m talking abo...

“The Clockwork Universe,” by Edward Dolnick, is about many things—but most of all, it’s about the beginning of true scientific thought. The ...

I always love a good nautical adventure—be it fiction or nonfiction—but this story by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman, "The Finest...

I loved "Hamilton" the musical, so I was over the moon to listen to this book, "Hamilton The Revolution," by Lin-Manuel ...

Honestly, before I read this book by Adrian Goldsworthy, "The Fall of Carthage," I had no idea what the Punic Wars were or what Ca...

So, soon after starting Chernow's excellent biography, I decided that I wanted to get the story of Ulysses S. Grant straight from the ma...

We're doing another space book, Obscurists. Well, sort of, it is more a history of NASA and some of the most talented women to ever work...

Suppose you've any interest in military history or just strategic thought in general. In that case, you can't go wrong with the grea...

For this review, we’re taking a deep dive into English history with “The Plantagenets,” written by Dan Jones. It’s a book about early Englis...

In this review, we’re talking about the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “American Prometheus” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. It tells t...

Or Download This Episode Here:   https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/656iwc/A_Crime_in_the_Family_Edit_7tfh9.mp3 It's podcast day Obscur...

We’re talking about Sacha Batthyany’s “A Crime in the Family,” which is a hard historical look at a small picture of WW2 in Hungary. It shin...

Everyone has heard of and read about Charles Darwin. But do you know who he read about before his adventures on the Beagle? Alexander Von Hu...

Time for something light and fun, like the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, oh and murder—mustn’t forget the murder. Okay, so maybe not so, lig...

I once referred to the medieval period as the dark ages, which isn’t super relevant to this course “Medieval Myths & Mysteries” by the G...

" Ancient Civilizations of North America " by the great courses taught by Edwin Barnhart is eye-opening in how little indigenous p...

This book, " Iron, Fire, and Ice " by Ed West, is a fun, popular history book that is a scattershot survey of history, providing i...