History Ago Go Podcast
1) Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 (Katya Hoyer)
Before 1871, Germany was not yet a nation but simply an idea. Otto von Bismarck had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, convi...Show More
Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918 (Katya Hoyer)
55:00 | Oct 8th, 2022
2) Gangsters vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in WW2 Era America (Michael Benson)
As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more ...Show More
3) The Clusterf#ck Crusade: The Diversion, Intrigue, and Disastrous Mishandling of the Fourth Crusade (Patrick Hotle)
Dr. Patrick Hotle discusses the ill-fated and disastrous Fourth Crusade. Â Starting with a lively medieval tournament to the Crusader army working with the Venetians to the palace intrigue of the Byza...Show More
4) The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land (Sally Denton)
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Fi...Show More
5) The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler (David Kertzer)
When Pope Pius XII died in 1958, his papers were sealed in the Vatican Secret Archives, leaving unanswered questions about what he knew and did during World War II. Those questions have only grown and...Show More
6) The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to American Presidents (David Priess)
Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to b...Show More
7) Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park (Andy Mulvihill)
The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told...Show More
8) Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and his Band of Brothers (Jared Frederick)
His comrades called him “Killer.” Of the elite paratroopers who served in the venerated “Band of Brothers” during the Second World War, none were more enigmatic than Ronald Speirs. Rumored to have gun...Show More
9) Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution (Eric Jay Dolin)
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vess...Show More
10) Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power (Marc Wortman)
Known as the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” Admiral Hyman George Rickover (1899–1986) remains an almost mythical figure in the United States Navy. A brilliant engineer with a ferocious will and combati...Show More