General Samuel Armstrong: Mentor to Booker T. Washington
General Samuel Armstrong opened a school for former slaves after the Civil War to train them in how to make a living.
Apr 14, 2025•6 min•Season 5Ep. 2
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Joseph Warren: the forgotten Patriot Leader
Joseph Warren was one of the most important Patriot leaders in the events just prior to the American Revolution. He is mostly forgotten today because he died at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Mar 02, 2025•7 min
George Chaffey: Irrigating Southern California
George Chaffey was a pioneer in irrigation. He developed towns in California and Australia, electrified them and created the Imperial Valley.
Oct 04, 2024•9 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Benjamin Church: The hero of King Philip's War
Benjamin Church is known and the first army ranger and used those tactics to defeat King Philip's forces in the war of that name.
Jun 14, 2024•10 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Charles Curtis: Native American Vice President
Charles Curtis started out life on an Indian Reservation and made it all the way to the Vice-Presidency.
Mar 01, 2024•8 min
George Bancroft: creating the U.S. Naval Academy
George Bancroft was America's first great historian but more importantly established the U.S. Naval Academy.
Feb 02, 2024•7 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Timothy Dwight: Standing against French Deism
Timothy Dwight, as president of Yale, resisted the influence of French Revolution ideas, which resulted in revival breaking out.
Nov 22, 2023•8 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Judith Reisman
Judith Reisman is the woman who exposed Alfred Kinsey's experiments as a fraud.
Oct 28, 2023•9 min
John Russell Pope
John Russell Pope was one of the last neo-classical architects in the U.S. The buildings he designed are some of the most beautiful in the country.
Aug 27, 2023•7 min
Robert Smalls: Using his slavery skills to escape
Robert Smalls, as a slave, was trained to be a wheelman on a steamboat. He would use those skills to escape and turn the ship over to the Union Navy.
Aug 09, 2023•10 min•Season 3Ep. 7
George Wythe: The Founder who was Murdered
George Wythe was a founder who was far ahead of most of the others on race relations and wrote legal opinions to undermine slavery.
Jul 15, 2023•8 min
Nathaniel Hawthorne: America's First Great Writer
Nathaniel Hawthorne was America's first great novelist. He wrote one of the most required books to read in high school, The Scarlet Letter
Jul 04, 2023•7 min
James Wilkinson: The Spy Who got Away With It.
General James Wilkinson was for 12 years the senior soldier in the U.S. Army. All during that time, he was a paid agent of the Spanish empire. He was never definitively caught during his lifetime.
Jun 16, 2023•9 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was a public intellectual and writer who gave conservatism its name.
Apr 10, 2023•5 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Elizabeth Bentley
Elizabeth Bentley was a Soviet spy who switched to the American side, disrupting KGB operations throughout the U.S.
Apr 03, 2023•9 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was an important civil rights leader in Mississippi. He was assassinated in 1963.
Jan 28, 2023•7 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Frederick T. Gates
Frederick Gates was the man most responsible for the rise in scientific medicine which led to Big Pharma.
Nov 19, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 18
David Hosack
David Hosack was not only the attending physician at the Hamilton-Burr duel, he also found the first botanic garden in America to train medical students. He was the first American doctor to regularly use the stethoscope.
Oct 08, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 18
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan, the Old Commoner, was a 3-time presidential candidate who later became a Secretary of State. Sadly, he is only remembered for a wildly inaccurate portrayal of him in the movie "inherit the Wind." Learn who he really was.
Aug 23, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Andrew Mellon
Andrew Mellon served 3 Presidents as Secretary of State and helped create the Roaring 20s economy. He made a big profit from it, too.
Aug 10, 2022•9 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Albert G. Spalding
Albert G. Spalding helped establish baseball as America's National Pastime and created a sporting goods company that still supplies sports equipment to people around the world.
Jul 14, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Henry M. Morris
henry Morris is considered the "Father of Creation Science" and was partly responsible for the lessening belief in the theory of evolution.
Jun 30, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Luther Burbank
Luther Burbank experimented with plants by cross breeding them in order to create disease resistant and tastier fruits and vegetable, most of which we still eat today.
Jun 14, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Henry J. Kaiser
Henry J. Kaiser was an amazing businessman who built dams, brought the steel industry to California, constructed ships during WWII, made the Jeep brand popular around the world and created the HMO.
May 25, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 11
John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun is considered a villain of American History. He considered slavery to be a positive for society. Some progressives are stealing his ideas today.
May 10, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren was one of America's Founding Mothers and the writer of the first complete history of the American Revolution.
Apr 26, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Gouverneur Morris
When we read the Constitution, we read Gouverneur Morris' words.
Apr 12, 2022•8 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole was an early American artist who founded the Hudson River School of landscape art. Since this is a painter and Anchor now supports, video, this episode is a video presentation.
Mar 27, 2022•6 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Walker was the only woman ever to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. She was also considered a freak of nature in the 1800s for insisting on wearing pants. She accomplished a lot in her life.
Mar 14, 2022•9 min•Season 2Ep. 6
James K. Polk
James K. Polk accomplished so many things for the U.S. in his one term that he should be considered one of America's great presidents. But few people have ever heard of him. You will, however, if you listen to this episode.
Feb 25, 2022•7 min•Season 2Ep. 5
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