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| Title | Date published | ||
| The Real Wild West | 2023-10-23 | ||
| Medieval North America: Gods of Thunder | 2023-10-19 | ||
| Battle of the Alamo | 2023-10-16 | ||
| President John Quincy Adams | 2023-10-12 | ||
| What if the South Won the Civil War? | 2023-10-09 | ||
| Origins of the Vietnam War | 2023-10-05 | ||
| The American Buffalo with Ken Burns | 2023-10-02 | ||
| President James Monroe | 2023-09-28 | ||
| Battle of Little Bighorn | 2023-09-24 | ||
| Sabotage & Secret Weapons: The WW2 Dirty Tricks Department | 2023-09-21 | ||
| Three Mile Island: Nuclear Accident in Pennsylvania | 2023-09-18 | ||
| President James Madison | 2023-09-14 | ||
| 9/11: Toxic Gas, PTSD & Rebuilding | 2023-09-11 | ||
| The Mexican-American War | 2023-09-07 | ||
| Oppenheimer: What If America Never Dropped the Atomic Bomb? | 2023-09-04 | ||
| President Thomas Jefferson | 2023-08-31 | ||
| The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake | 2023-08-28 | ||
| Prehistoric North America | 2023-08-24 | ||
| Pocahontas: The True Story | 2023-08-21 | ||
| President John Adams | 2023-08-17 |