Latest Besthistory Podcast Episodes
Joan of Arc | Peasant, Warrior, Saint (Republish)
15-Minute History - June 24, 2024 10:25 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsDuring the summer break, the 15-Minute History podcast team is republishing some of their favorite episodes. This episode, Joan of Arc, originally aired on October 18, 2021. Arrows filled the sky above the battlefield and rained down on the French knights as they slogged through the mud in heav...
Pop Quiz | Who Built the Pyramids?
15-Minute History - June 20, 2024 09:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or...
Pop Quiz | Who Built the Pyramids?
15-Minute History - June 20, 2024 09:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! During the summer break, the team still wanted to bring you, our awesome audience, some new content. Every Thursday, one of the hosts will ask the other a question about history they must answer. Have an idea for a topic? Send it to us at [email protected] or...
Pointe du Hoc | Scaling the Impossible (Republish)
15-Minute History - June 06, 2024 16:18 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsTo honor the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion, we are republishing our Pointe du Hoc episode (first aired on April 12, 2021). "The last landing was unique. It was a 100-foot cliff facing the English Channel, situated between Utah and Omaha beach. At the top of the cliff were 155mm guns w...
McCarthyism | A Discussion on the Threat of Cultural Evil
15-Minute History - June 03, 2024 08:59 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsIn this, our last episode of Season 7, join us as we discuss Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the threat of cultural evils. Thank you for a fantastic season! We look forward to speaking with you again this Fall. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehist...
Pop Quiz | Narratives
15-Minute History - May 30, 2024 21:36 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks the other a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you,...
“The Message” | The Threat of Cultural Evil (Part 2)
15-Minute History - May 27, 2024 11:43 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsLast week, we discussed the political and legal framework of McCarthyism, but far more important is how it impacted ordinary citizens who were not Soviet agents. McCarthy and HUAC regularly labeled Americans as threats simply for their political beliefs, which were often countercultural at the t...
Pop Quiz | East India Trading Company
15-Minute History - May 23, 2024 13:15 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks the other a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you,...
McCarthyism | The Threat of Cultural Evil (Part 1)
15-Minute History - May 20, 2024 08:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsA sense of moral panic had gripped the country that everyone in the room at the Republican Women’s Club could feel. The audience fell silent as the senator walked to his podium and organized his notes. He had been in the upper house for only three years, and few outside his home state of Wiscons...
Pop Quiz | Story
15-Minute History - May 16, 2024 12:16 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe or Jon asks the other a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more wi...
Teaching Evil | A Discussion on Signposts and Outcomes
15-Minute History - May 13, 2024 10:02 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsJoin us as we discuss the episode, Teaching Evil, the trends seen in history, and their outcomes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support
Pop Quiz | Ancient Ideas
15-Minute History - May 09, 2024 04:45 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you, our outst...
Teaching Evil | Signposts and Outcomes
15-Minute History - May 06, 2024 04:45 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsSome of the greatest crimes in history began not on battlefields or politicians’ offices but in classrooms. Demagogues often seize control of educational institutions as a means of indoctrinating the young, filling their minds with false narratives meant to guide them toward evil. As a teacher, ...
Thursday Thoughts + Pop Quiz | Inconvenient Road Construction
15-Minute History - May 02, 2024 11:45 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to a special combined episode of Thursday Thoughts and Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe speaks about a specific person, place, or event in history in under five minutes. This week, Joe talks about the history of roads and as a result, Jon has a few questions. --- Support this podc...
The Trail of Tears | A Discussion
15-Minute History - April 29, 2024 11:29 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsJoin us as we discuss the Trail of Tears, its root causes, and its effects. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support
Pop Quiz | Inevitable History
15-Minute History - April 25, 2024 04:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you, our outst...
The Trail of Tears | Forever Lost
15-Minute History - April 22, 2024 11:05 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratings"In the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning, I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west. One can never forget the sadness and solemnity of that morning. Chief John Ross led in prayer and when the bugle sounded and the wa...
Pop Quiz | National Debt
15-Minute History - April 19, 2024 12:08 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you, our outst...
Margret Sanger | A Discussion on Intentions
15-Minute History - April 15, 2024 09:44 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsToday, we discuss the motivations of Margaret Sanger, what – according to history – drove her “solutions”, and why even Planned Parenthood is beginning to disavow her. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support
Pop Quiz | Brexit Elaboration
15-Minute History - April 11, 2024 14:52 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you, our outst...
Margret Sanger | Intentions
15-Minute History - April 08, 2024 11:42 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsPut her name into a search engine and you will be provided with a variety of titles such as “political activist”, “feminist”, “American social reformer”, and “sex educator”. You will be treated to the history of a person who fought hard for women’s reproductive rights. To be clear, all of this i...
Thursday Thoughts | Dying Refrigerators & the Assembly Line
15-Minute History - April 04, 2024 19:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to Thursday Thoughts! Every other Thursday, Joe will speak about a specific person, place, or event in history in under five minutes. This week, Joe talks about the history and benefits of the assembly line that we still experience daily. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters...
The Khmer Rouge | A Discussion - “To Destroy You is No Loss”
15-Minute History - April 01, 2024 07:30 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsJoin us as we discuss the absolute horror that was the Khmer Rouge. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support
Pop Quiz | TikTok Ban
15-Minute History - March 28, 2024 11:24 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you, our outst...
The Khmer Rouge | “To Destroy You is No Loss”
15-Minute History - March 25, 2024 04:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratings“I was fifteen years old when the Khmer Rouge came to power in April 1975. I can still remember how overwhelmed with joy I was that the war had finally ended. It did not matter who won. I and many Cambodians wanted peace at any price. The civil war had tired us out, and we could not make much se...
Pop Quiz | Brexit & its Effects
15-Minute History - March 21, 2024 18:15 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you, our outst...
Vlad the Impaler | A Discussion on Evil Manifested
15-Minute History - March 18, 2024 10:55 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsJoin us as we discuss the vile life of Vlad the Impaler, detail his monstrous actions, and show you a person in history who was objectively, evil in every way. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/15minutehistory/support
Thursday Thoughts | Consumer Control
15-Minute History - March 14, 2024 11:24 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to Thursday Thoughts! Every other Thursday, Joe will speak about a specific person, place, or event in history in under five minutes. This week, Joe provides a brief background on how marketing has changed and why the consumer now has full control. --- Support this podcast: https://...
Vlad the Impaler | Evil Manifested
15-Minute History - March 11, 2024 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsJoin us as we teach you about the vile life of Vlad the Impaler, detail his monstrous actions, and show you a person in history who was objectively, evil in every way. Please send us your thoughts and questions on this topic for our discussion next week, via our email at 15minutehistory@gmail....
Pop Quiz | The Putin Interview
15-Minute History - March 07, 2024 17:20 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsWelcome to the Pop Quiz! Every other Thursday, Joe asks a topical question about history, and Jon has to answer it without any help or resources - other than his legendary memory and knowledge of history. These episodes are unedited and a fun way for the team to interact more with you, our outst...
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