Send us Fan Mail We go to late 19th Century America and look at the Captains of Industry. Were they exploitative villains or builds of America's future?

Send us Fan Mail Is it fair to use sitcoms from 40 years ago as a marker of our history, and comparison with affordability today? We explore using Married With Children, Roseanne, The Cosby Show and Brady Bunch.

Send us Fan Mail We look at the largest of the successor (Diadochi) kingdoms built after the death of Alexander. A mixed legacy of west meets east but also ending in ignominy. Show notes: Antiochus the Great by Michael Taylor

Send us Fan Mail We talk with Jeremy Ryan Slate the founder of the Hidden Forces in History and Roman Pattern podcasts about Romans such as Aurelian, English Kings Henry V and VII, what we can learn today from Roman decline. Notes: Ronald Syme: The Roman Revolution

Send us Fan Mail We travel from 24th Century BC Akkad to the Napoleonic Era looking for good subjects worthy of portrayal. Sargon, St. Louis and Nelson all make appearances.

Send us Fan Mail We look at Spielberg/Hanks, Ford/Wayne, Lean/Guinness and reluctantly Griffiths/Gish to view historical movies where a director and actor collaborated more than once.

Send us Fan Mail We take a walk through presidential history to ID financial chicanery in the executive branch

Send us Fan Mail We are joined on the podcast by Tim Queeney, author of Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization. We travel from the stone age to Egypt, Polynesia, the Age of Sail and even go to Mars.

Send us Fan Mail We explore the 4th of July Holiday and on this, the 250th anniversary of our nation, all of the meanings of that great day.

Send us Fan Mail We look at modern America and hear from the Founders about what they would think of America 250 years after the new nation was born.