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| Title | Date published | ||
| The Real Hamilton: Founding Father | 2024-04-29 | ||
| President Rutherford B. Hayes: The First Great Depression | 2024-04-25 | ||
| Founding Father: Who Was John Hancock? | 2024-04-22 | ||
| The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre: Slavery After the Civil War | 2024-04-18 | ||
| President Ulysses S. Grant: The Myth of the Butcher | 2024-04-15 | ||
| Ulysses S. Grant & the Civil War | 2024-04-11 | ||
| The Rise & Fall of Al Capone | 2024-04-08 | ||
| NATO: 75 Years Deterring Armageddon | 2024-04-04 | ||
| The Real Great Gatsby | 2024-04-01 | ||
| President Andrew Johnson: Reconstruction & The First Impeachment | 2024-03-28 | ||
| The Salem Witch Trials | 2024-03-24 | ||
| Did the Cold War Ever End? | 2024-03-21 | ||
| Irish in America: Poverty to Power | 2024-03-18 | ||
| Lincoln: Love, Loss & Legacy | 2024-03-14 | ||
| The Rise & Fall of the Ku Klux Klan | 2024-03-11 | ||
| Lincoln & the Civil War | 2024-03-07 | ||
| The Last Ship of the Atlantic Slave Trade | 2024-03-03 | ||
| Lincoln the President | 2024-02-29 | ||
| American History Tellers | 2024-02-27 | ||
| The Truth about the American Dream: The Baldwin-Buckley Debate | 2024-02-25 |