Feb 13

The Rise of Adolf Hitler: Why a Nation Chose Tyranny

On this episode of Our American Stories, the Third Reich lasted just twelve years, but the destruction it unleashed reshaped the world forever. In this episode, we examine the rise of Adolf Hitler—not as a sudden coup, but as a political ascent made possible through elections, in ... Show More

38m 16s

Feb 13

One of America’s Greatest Business Leaders Started as a Paperboy

On this episode of Our American Stories, long before leading ten publicly traded companies, Jerre Stead was waking up at 3 a.m. to deliver newspapers in rural Iowa. In this story, Stead explains how running a paper route at age nine—through snowstorms, strict deadlines, difficult ... Show More

10m 49s

Feb 13

Weapons of World War II: Barbed Wire, Mines, Guns, and Artillery

On this episode of Our American Stories, historian Stephen Ambrose explains how World War II was actually fought, not just with tanks and planes, but with weapons that were often refinements of much older designs. From barbed wire and land mines to machine guns and artillery, Amb ... Show More

9m 29s

Jun 2022

The Ingenuity and Stupidity of the HL Hunley - Ship Hits the Fan Podcast

February 17th, 1864 -- The HL Hunley makes history as the Confederate ship became the first combat submarine to sink an enemy craft. But after sinking a 1,200 ton Union warship, the Hunley disappeared. What happened to this historic sub, that changed the face of naval warfare for ... Show More

46m 39s

Jan 2023

The US Navy Teamed Up With Mobsters, Part One: Luciano Gets Lucky

After the suspicious destruction of the USS Lafayette in Manhattan, the Navy became convinced saboteurs may be at work on American soil. There was another problem -- try as they might, they couldn't infiltrate the notoriously shady dockworker culture, which was in large part run ... Show More

55m 21s

Jul 2022

SYMHC Classics: Unearthed! USS Indianapolis

This 2017 episode covers the U.S.S. Indianapolis, known today for its crew's horrifying wait for rescue after being torpedoed following a secret mission at the end of World War II. But the ship's history goes back much farther than that.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf ... Show More

32m 2s

Dec 2018

A. G. Holloway and J. W. White, "Our Little Monitor: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War" (Kent State UP, 2018)

Jonathan W. White, an associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University, is the co-author of “Our Little Monitor”: The Greatest Invention of the Civil War (Kent State University Press, 2018). Ever since their famous naval encounter in 1862, the Monitor and ... Show More

48 m

Jul 2023

Submarine Disasters - Squalus and The Titan

Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode we will be covering submarines and submarine disasters including how they are rescued, we will cover the Squalus rescue from 1937 and the very recent OceanGate Titan ... Show More

1h 5m

Dec 2023

Attack on Pearl Harbor

December 7th is the anniversary of the attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in 1941, which thrust the United States into World War II. Join us as we learn more about the details of the attack by the Empire of Japan, the aftermath, and the Pearl Harbor Memorial in Oahu, Hawaii. ... Show More

9m 46s

Nov 2022

Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | Trapped | 2

<p>With the USS Squalus trapped at the bottom of the ocean, the Navy mounted an all-out rescue effort to save its crew before they ran out of breathable air. They called upon Charles “Swede” Momsen, an engineer who’d been pushing the Navy for years to develop new technology to re ... Show More

45m 44s

Nov 2022

Submarine Rescue: The Race to Save Squalus | Into the Deep | 1

<p>On the morning of May 23, 1939, a state-of-the-art U.S. Navy’s submarine, the USS Squalus, was doing a routine test dive when something went terribly wrong. The sub began flooding, and plunged 240 feet down to the bottom of the ocean, trapping the dozens of sailors aboard. The ... Show More

47m 8s

The First Successful Submarine Attack In...