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From The History Guy. Five classic The History Guy episodes on Aviation Disasters. One Hour of The History Guy! As THG was returning from a speaking engagement in the UK this week, we decided to release this "supercut" of classic episodes. We might do this again from time to time. If you have constructive advice…
From The History Guy. In 1965, amid the complex politics of the first US intervention in Latin America in three decades, Operation "Power Pack" included a rare, in some ways unique, set of events in military history- armored combat in the Americas. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ Special thanks to…
From The History Guy. As Marco Polo traveled through the lands where descendants of Genghis Khan ruled pieces of what was once the world’s largest empire, he spoke of one in particular whose tale seems to have come straight out of a fairy tale. In the 1260s he met one of the great-great-grandaughters of Genghis,…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode…
From The History Guy. When you consider the history of the chainsaw you might imagine that it’s only connection to medicine would be the average of approximately 28,000 chainsaw injuries reported in the US annually. But you would be wrong. The shocking history of the mechanically driven cutting tool with teeth set on a chain…
From The History Guy. Watch Britain’s Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues, Episode One: Highwaymen for FREE until June 22. https://www.magellantv.com/series/britains-outlaws-highwaymen-pirates-and-rogues You can also gain access to MagellanTV’s entire history collection with my SPECIAL OFFER, a 1-month free membership: https://try.magellantv.com/historyguy. As any fan of the history guy knows, all good stories involve Pirates. And of course…
From The History Guy. Despite millennia of struggle against the disease, rabies remains one of the deadliest illness known to man. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very…
From The History Guy. In 1789, the Spanish empire prepared to enforce their territorial claims far to the North of what they nominally controlled, and instigated a crisis that threatened to bring the great European powers to war. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research…
From The History Guy. Watch The New Science of Food for FREE until June 14. https://www.magellantv.com/video/the-new-science-of-food You can also gain access to MagellanTV’s entire history collection with my SPECIAL OFFER, a 1-month free membership: https://try.magellantv.com/historyguy. The humble hot dog has been around longer than you might think, and how it became an American icon with…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ On today’s episode, the history guy talks about the United States Coast Guard,…
From The History Guy. There are so many stories of heroism involved in the massive operation overlord, among them the extraordinary story of the little known first Canadian parachute battalion. The lightly armed Canadians were among the first allied soldiers to hit the ground in France. Check out our new community for fans and supporters!…
From The History Guy. USS Tennessee was already an aging vessel when she was moored alongside USS West Virginia and ahead of USS Arizona on December 7, 1941. But the "Big Ten" would not only survive the attack, she would go on to participate in more battles and fire more salvos than any other US…
From The History Guy. If trying to spell the English language, with its silent letters and inconsistent rules, bothers you, it also bothered Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and Mark Twain. In 1906 they tried to do something about it. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on…
From The History Guy. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few images of the actual event are available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and…
From The History Guy. The discovery of a dinosaur fossil in New Jersey in 1858 sparked a period of intense popular and scientific interest in dinosaurs called “Dinosaur Mania”. Competition between museums to collect specimens led to an oft-forgotten period and a professional rivalry between two men who helped change the face of paleontology –…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Today, the history guy talks about two things that millions of people around…
From The History Guy. In May, 1908, the Morrell airship was the largest in the world. Its inventor, J.A. Morrell, refused to listen to those who told him his dream was too big. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images…
From The History Guy. Get your exclusive NordVPN deal here ➵ https://NordVPN.com/thehistoryguy It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!✌ Lewis and Clark were not the first Europeans to cross the continent and reach the Pacific. Instead, a Scottish-born explorer is credited with the first east-west journey across America north of Mexico. Though more…
From The History Guy. The tiny village of Ipava became, for a moment, one of the largest cities in Illinois. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public Domain are carefully selected and provide illustration. As very few…
From The History Guy. It has been estimated that as much as two-thirds of deceased soldiers in the US Civile War were killed not by bullets but by disease, with the most prevalent of those diseases being the intestinal illnesses diarrhea and dysentery. It was not clear, based on the established medical knowledge, exactly what…
From The History Guy. From the THG Archive: When a Greek peasant found a sculpture on the island of Milos, France saw a chance to regain lost glory. The History Guy remembers how the ghost of Napoleon helped to turn the armless beauty called the Venus de Milo into one of the most recognized sculptures…
From The History Guy. This updated and expanded version of a History Guy Short from 2019 details the long history of a summer chore that has become synonymous with the American dream. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode,…
From The History Guy. "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb" is a work that has been so adored that it has become infamous as the most stolen artwork in history. Of all the many times the piece was stolen, however, there is one incident that stands above the rest as probably the most significant theft,…
From The History Guy. Watch Empire Builders: China Episode 1: Imperial China for FREE until April 21, 2022: https://www.magellantv.com/series/empire-builders-china/imperial-china You can also gain access to MagellanTV’s entire history collection with my SPECIAL OFFER, a 1-month free membership: https://try.magellantv.com/historyguy. Following the powerful but short lived Qin Dynasty, the Han dynasty is often seen as a Golden…
From The History Guy. Charles Lindberg’s was not the only feat of aeronautics to come out of the St Louis area in 1927. Much less remembered but no less daring, were the efforts of an Army officer, Captain Hawthorn C Gray, to rise higher than any had before. Check out our new community for fans…
From The History Guy. The eleven nations included in the Antarctic portion of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year created several permanent research stations, including the first permanent station at the South Pole. The effort to create a permanent scientific presence at, literally, the end of the earth required enormous effort of scientists and military personnel.…
From The History Guy. In 1938, the merchant steamer SS Robin Goodfellow was caught in the Great New England Hurricane. On board the ship were some unique passengers: two Giraffes. Those Giraffes, caught in a storm that killed hundreds of people, were en route to San Diego, California, and the storm was only the beginning…
From The History Guy. Captain Sully’s US Airways Flight 1549 lost its engines almost immediately after takeoff, after reaching an altitude of only 2,800 feet. In 1983, a very different flight lost power at a staggering 41,000 feet, and the pilots had no choice but to try to land the plane without engines. Check out…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode,…
From The History Guy. On October 16th, 1890, New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy was shot to death while walking home. His death would spur violence and mass arrests, and suspicion against Italian-American immigrants who seemed to be a part of a sinister criminal conspiracy known as the mafia. His murder would result in a…
From The History Guy. Enjoy 10% off 6” and 8.5” MOVA Globes with code THEHISTORYGUY. Shop now on https://bit.ly/THGMOVAGlobes On July 20, 1969, at 10:56 PM, eastern time, television images of Neil Armstrong were broadcast world wide as he put his foot on the lunar surface. But there is far more to the program that…
From The History Guy. Though nearly forgotten now as they have become largely obsolete in the face of rail and road, canals were for a time the end-all be-all of transportation technology, and the building of a canal could guarantee prosperity for the towns it traveled through. Hoping to get in on the game, the…
From The History Guy. Trade, of course, attracts crime, and on the open water, pirates. In the early 1900s a man who looked little like a character from pirates of the Caribbean made a name for himself in that ancient profession. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content…
From The History Guy. Watch She-Wolves: England’s Early Queens Episode 1: Matilda and Eleanor for FREE until April 21, 2022: https://www.magellantv.com/series/shewolves-englands-early-queens-4k/matilda-and-eleanor You can also gain access to MagellanTV’s entire history collection with my SPECIAL OFFER, a 1-month free membership: https://try.magellantv.com/historyguy. The Second Crusade would be led by two of the most powerful kings of Europe,…
From The History Guy. "Echoes of History: Ragnarök" is a historical podcast inspired by the video game "Assassin’s Creed Valhalla : Dawn of Ragnarök." It’s the second season of Ubisoft’s popular podcast “Echoes of History." Subscribe to the "Echoes of History" podcast, wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnk.to/echoesofhistory If you’re from the United States, it’s…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode,…
From The History Guy. On her seventh war patrol, in the south Java Sea, the T class British submarine HMS Terrapin and her crew had faced the terror of battle and barely survived. Badly damaged and far from home, sometimes the drama of war is not just in the battle, but in the voyage home.…
From The History Guy. One of the items that has spent the most time on The History Guy set is a wooden ship model of the Juan Sebastian de Elcano. The tall masted barquentine and the explorer after whom it was named deserve to be remembered. This episode was originally produced for our community on…
From The History Guy. More than one doctor has found their theories dismissed by the existing establishment, only to be proven right years later. Perhaps none of those stories are more dramatic than the story of Werner Forssmann, who, when faced with defeat, simply chose to go around everyone and do his experiment anyway –…
From The History Guy. As the US honed in on what it hoped would be its notable fist in manned space exploration, a problem arose that required a unique solution. Surprisingly, the answer to this problem of cutting edge technology turned out to be an obsolete piece of equipment that came as the result of…
From The History Guy. Watch The Last Voices of World War I: Episode 1, The Call to Arms for FREE until April 7, 2022: https://www.magellantv.com/series/the-last-voices-of-world-war-one You can also gain access to MagellanTV’s entire history collection with my SPECIAL OFFER, a 1-month free membership: https://try.magellantv.com/historyguy. The naval war in the Atlantic, fought mostly by German submarines…
From The History Guy. "Echoes of History: Ragnarök" is a historical podcast inspired by the video game "Assassin’s Creed : Dawn of Ragnarök". It’s the second season of Ubisoft’s popular podcast “Echoes of History. ”Subscribe to the "Echoes of History" podcast, wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnk.to/echoesofhistory The year 1066 has become indelibly linked to…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode…
From The History Guy. Whether you are one of those who stops to read every one, or one of those that just take them for granted, historic markers are the fruit of the efforts of many groups and people who believe in an important maxim: that history deserves to be remembered. Learn more about National…
From The History Guy. On March 26th, 1884, the city of Cincinnati, Ohio was on edge, waiting for a jury to convict a defendant who was accused of murdering a man in December of the year before. That verdict did come down guilty, but not for murder. Instead, the man was convicted of manslaughter. That…
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From The History Guy. French Quarter dot com, notes: “ Looking at the vibrant, festive Quarter with millions of visitors annually, it is hard to imagine the devastation of Holy Saturday morning in 1788. Smoking ruins stretched from Chartres to Dauphine Street, and from Conti to St. Philip.” The 1788 great fire of New Orleans…
From The History Guy. During the cold war the US postal service had a novel idea, one that they thought would pair space age technology with even faster mail delivery. Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ This is original content based on research by The History Guy. Images in the Public…
From The History Guy. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C., once called the Government Hospital for the insane, is representative of more than seventy such campuses made up of massive, ornate Victorian buildings designed by some of the most notable architects in the nation, and built across America over a sixty-five year period. Their now…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode…
From The History Guy. It was one of those dramatic events in time of war. Civilians, threatened by an invasion by a remorseless and intractable enemy, desperately calling for military bombers to attack that enemy as it surged towards the defenseless town. In a raging storm a brave crew of volunteers for the dangerous mission,…
From The History Guy. The winter of 1888 had been exceptionally mild — until a blizzard struck suddenly, changing the face of New York City and most of the eastern coast of the United States forever. It was the deadliest winter storm in U.S. history. They called it, "The Great White Hurricane." Expanded version of…
From The History Guy. Wyoming was the first US state to allow women to vote and first state to have a female governor. How, exactly, did a sparsely populated frontier land of cowboys end up on the cutting edge of gender equality decades ahead of the 19th amendment? In a uniquely Wyoming way, including frontier…
From The History Guy. On March 7, 1971, more than a thousand US planes engaged in bombing missions, along with combat missions involving hundreds of helicopters, in a war that was supposed to be nearly over, in a battle intended to prove that the US was no longer needed. Operation Lam Son 719 is both…
From The History Guy. Watch Burma: Forgotten Allies for FREE until March 10, 2022: https://www.magellantv.com/video/burma-forgotten-allies You can also gain access to MagellanTV’s entire history collection with my SPECIAL OFFER, a 1-month free membership: https://try.magellantv.com/historyguy. Often forgotten, fierce and vital fighting took place in the China-Burma-India Theater, including some of the most effective intelligence and guerilla…
From The History Guy. The development of technology for speedy long-distance communication dates back to antiquity, and reached its pre-electronic peak in the telegraph before Samuel Morse’s telegraph. Before wires crossed the world, Napoleonic France could send a message from Paris to Lille, a distance of some 250 kilometers, in ten minutes. Check out our…
From The History Guy. This is an episode of the THG Podcast, which posts to YouTube once every two weeks in addition to regular History Guy content, about a month after it releases to podcast services. Subscribe to the RSS feed: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Check out our new community for fans and supporters! https://thehistoryguyguild.locals.com/ On today’s episode,…
From The History Guy. Before the Civil War and the Fourteenth amendment, there were free blacks who lived, thrived, and contributed significantly to the early history of the United States. Of course life as a free black American in the colonies was not easy, and they faced a myriad of challenges that related directly to…
From The History Guy. Watch Dick Winters: Hang Tough for FREE until March 3, 2021: https://www.magellantv.com/video/dick-winters-hang-tough. You can also gain access to MagellanTV’s entire history collection with my SPECIAL OFFER, a 1-month free membership: https://try.magellantv.com/historyguy. Between 1938 and 1945 the US Army expanded from 174,000 troops to over eight million. To provide trained officers to…