This week's podcast deals with the Coup in Guatemala in 1954 where the CIA backed a coup and regime change in order to prevent a communist takeover or help the United Fruit Company's bottom line depending on who you ask.  The previous gove...

Most people know that Amelia Earhart was a famous aviator, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and famously disappeared on an attempt to fly around the world.  In today's podcast we talk a bit more about her life, how she...

Amy Robsart was born in 1532 in Norfolk, England to a fairly wealthy farming and grazing family.  When she was almost 18 she married Roberty Dudley, a younger son of the Earl of Warwick.  It was considered to be a love match as oppose...

After a week off, we're back.  This week's topic is Davey Crockett of coonskin hat fame. Crockett is one of those larger than life characters that often seem to show up in early American history.  While most of us know him from The Ba...

Most people have belonged to a book club at some point in their lives, but have you ever thought about the history of book clubs?  Come find out about how book clubs have developed and changed over time, from ancient Greece, to Puritan Ame...