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| Title | Date published | ||
| Charles Dickens in America | 2023-01-12 | ||
| Inside Benjamin Franklin's House | 2023-01-09 | ||
| Lessons from the Civil War | 2023-01-05 | ||
| Downton Abbey | 2022-12-29 | ||
| The First Americans | 2022-12-22 | ||
| The French & Indian War with Dan Snow | 2022-12-19 | ||
| The War of 1812 | 2022-12-15 | ||
| The Assassination of President McKinley | 2022-12-12 | ||
| Pearl Harbor | 2022-12-08 | ||
| Start of the Space Race | 2022-12-05 | ||
| Capturing Lincoln’s Assassin | 2022-12-01 | ||
| The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | 2022-11-28 | ||
| The First Thanksgiving | 2022-11-24 | ||
| Ronald Reagan: The Peacemaker | 2022-11-21 | ||
| Who Really Invented the Light Bulb? | 2022-11-17 | ||
| The Whiskey Rebellion | 2022-11-14 | ||
| African Americans in WW2 | 2022-11-10 | ||
| The Race for the North Pole | 2022-11-07 | ||
| Becoming FDR | 2022-11-03 | ||
| Sleepy Hollow & the Haunted Hudson | 2022-10-31 |