History Happy Hour

episodes

Sunday, April 21, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 194 – British Airborne in World War II

Guest: Saul David

Sunday, April 14, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 193 – 1921 Murder Farm Massacre

Guest: Earl Swift

Sunday, April 7, 2024

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 192 – With the Infantry in World War II

Guest: Peter Hart

Sunday, March 31, 2024

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 191 – General Meade at Gettysburg

Guest: Kent Masterson Brown

Sunday, March 24, 2024

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 190 – Excavating Rev War Soldiers

Guests: Steven Smith, Wade Catts, Jen Janofsky

Sunday, March 17, 2024

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 189 - Black Sheriff Bass Reeves

Guest: Art T. Burton

Sunday, March 10, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 188 - December 1942: A World at War

Guest: Peter Harmsen

Sunday, March 3, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 187 - Benedict Arnold: Hero/Traitor?

Guest: Jack Kelly

Sunday, February 25, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 186 - 29th Division in World War II

Guest: Joe Balkoski

Sunday, February 18, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 185 – A Combat Nurse in WWII

Guest: NCR Davis

Sunday, February 11, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 184 – New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia

Guest: Terry Golway

Sunday, February 4, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 183 – 9th Army Commander Gen. William Simpson

Guest: William Stuart Nance

Sunday, January 28, 2024

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 182: General George Patton

Guest: Kevin Hymel

Sunday, January 21, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 181: Women’s Auxiliary Air Force

Guest: Dr. Sarah-Louise Miller

Sunday, January 14, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 180 - WWII Artic Convoys

Guest: David Kenyon

Sunday, January 7, 2024

History Happy Hour Episode 179 - John Hancock

Guest: Brooke Barbier

Sunday, December 31, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 178 - Epic Battles of Ancient Greece

Guest: Dr Stephen Kershaw

Sunday, December 24, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 177 - Pointe-du-Hoc

Guest: Stephen Zaloga

Sunday, December 17, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 176 - African Americans in World War II

Guest: Matthew F. Delmont

Sunday, December 10, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 175: Germany and Genocide

Guest: Andrew I. Port

Sunday, December 3, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 174 – 1932: The Pivotal Year

Guest: Scott Martelle

Sunday, November 26, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 173 – History Happy Talk

Guest: Chris Anderson & Rick Beyer

Sunday, November 19, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 172 – The Fall of France

Guest: Michael Scott Neiberg

Sunday, November 12, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 171 – Submarines at Midway

Guest: Mark W. Allen

Sunday, November 5, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 170 – Napoleonic Wars

Guest: Alexander Mikaberidze

Sunday, October 29, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 169 – Lost Paratroopers of Normandy

Guest: Stephen G. Rabe

Sunday, October 22, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 168 – Eleanor Roosevelt Goes to War

Guest: Shannon McKenna Schmidt

Sunday, October 15, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 167 – Anna May Wong

Guest: Yunte Huang

Sunday, October 8, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 166 – Anna Rosenberg

Guest: Christopher C. Gorham

Sunday, October 1, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 165: American as Apple Pie

Guest: Rossi Anastopoulo

Sunday, September 24, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 164: Sergeant York: Myth vs. Reality

Guest: James P. Gregory Jr.

Sunday, September 17, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 163: Six-Triple-Eight Postal Battalion

Guest: Edna Cummings

Sunday, September 10, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 162 – Canada’s WWII Battle for the Scheldt Estuary

Guest: Mark Zuehlke

Sunday, September 3, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 161 – With the Infantry in World War II

Guest: Peter Hart

Sunday, August 27, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 160 – Daily Life in Nazi Germany

Guest: Julia Boyd

Sunday, August 20, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 159 – General Meade at Gettysburg

Guest: Kent Masterson Brown

Sunday, August 13, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 158 – Josephine Baker WWII Spy

Guest: Damien Lewis

Sunday, August 6, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 157 – Patton and Kevin Hymel

Guest: Kevin Hymel

Sunday, July 30, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 156 – The Woman Who Saved the Temples

Guest: Lynne Olson

Sunday, July 23, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 155 – Epic Battles of Ancient Greece

Guest: Stephen P. Kershaw

Sunday, July 16, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 154 – Mussolini and Fascism

Guest: John Foot

Sunday, July 9, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 153 – Resisting Hitler

Guest: Halik Kochanski

Sunday, July 2, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 152 – Hessians in the Revolutionary War

Guest: Friederike Baer

Sunday, June 25, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 151 – Excavating Rev War Soldiers

Guests: Steven Smith, James Legg, Wade Catts, Jen Janofsky

Sunday, June 18, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 150 – African-American Marshal Bass Reeves

Guest: Art T. Burton

Sunday, June 11, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 149 – D-Day Special

Guests: Giles Milton, Joe Balkoski, Craig Symonds

Sunday, June 4, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 148 – African Americans in World War II

Guest: Matthew F. Delmont

Sunday, May 28, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 147 – Pointe du Hoc

Guest: Steven Zaloga

Sunday, May 21, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 146 – Dunkirk; The German View

Guest: Robert Kershaw

Sunday, May 14, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 145 – Resisting Hitler

Guest: Halik Kochanski

Sunday, May 7, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 144 – Lost Paratroopers of Normandy

Guest: Stephen G. Rabe

Sunday, April 30, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 143 – Master Class: Normandy Breakout

Guests: Matt Broggie, Erik Flint, Hugh MacDonald-Buchanan

Sunday, April 23, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 142 – The Faces of Margraten

Guests: Sebastiaan Vonk, Jori Videc, Ari-Jan Van Hees

Sunday, April 16, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 141 – How Germany Lost WWI

Holger Afflerbach

Sunday, April 9, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 140: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo

Guest: Craig Symonds

Sunday, April 2, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 139 – Sergeant York: Myth vs. Reality

Guest: James P. Gregory Jr.

Sunday, March 26, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 138 – Nazi Billionaires: Dynasties of the Third Reich

Guest: David de Jong

Sunday, March 19, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 137 – Third Anniversary Special

Guest: Andrew Roberts, Susan Eisenhower, Craig Symonds, Joe Balkoski, Giles Milton, Judy Batalion, Patrick Bishop, and Charles Person. Plus younger versions of Chris and Rick!

Sunday, March 12, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 136 – Japanese-American GIs in World War II

Guest: Daniel James Brown

Sunday, March 5, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 135 – Canada’s WWII Battle for the Scheldt Estuary

Guest: Mark Zuehlke

Sunday, February 26, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 134 – The Woman Who Saved the Temples

Guest: Lynne Olson

Sunday, February 19, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 133 – Germans on the March

Guest: Peter Wilson

Sunday, February 12, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 132: Humor in Hell

Guests: Peter Hart & Gary Bain

Sunday, February 5, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 131: Revolutionary War Privateers

Guests: Erik Jay Dolin

Sunday, January 29, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 130: American as Apple Pie

Guests: Rossi Anastopoulo

Sunday, January 22, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 129: Mussolini and Fascism

Guests: John Foot

Sunday, January 15, 2023

History Happy Hour Episode 128: Normandy Breakout Masterclass

Guests: Matt Broggie, Erik Flint, and Hugh McDonald-Buchanan

Sunday, January 8, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 127: Josephine Baker WWII Spy

Guest: Damien Lewis

Sunday, January 1, 2023

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 126: WWII, A Reassessment

Guest: Richard Overy

Sunday, December 25, 2022

History Happy Hour Encore Episode 125: When the Irish Invaded Canada

Guest: Christopher Klein

Sunday, December 18, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 124: Billy the Kid

Guest: James B. Mills

Sunday, December 11, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 123: One Soldier’s Story in World War II

Guest: Walt Larimore

Sunday, December 4, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 122: Hessians in the Revolutionary War

Guest: Friederike Baer

Sunday, November 27, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 121: Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo

Guest: Craig Symonds

Sunday, November 20, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 120: The First Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh vs. The French

Guest: Christopher Goscha

Sunday, November 13, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 119: Second Rangers in The Hurtgen Forest

Guest: Bob Drury

Sunday, November 6, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 118 Encore: French Resistance Leader Marie-Madeleine Fourcade

Guests: Lynne Olson

Sunday, October 30, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 117: Nazi Fugitives

Guests: Dr. Danny Orbach

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Encore Episode: George Patton

Guests: Kevin Hymel

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Encore Episode: War in Ukraine: History Repeats?

Guests: Dr. Sean McMeekin, Dr. David Murphy, Keith Lowe

Sunday, October 9, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 116: World War II: A Reassessment

Guest: Richard Overy

Sunday, October 2, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 115: Harry Truman Presidency

Guest: Jeffery Frank

Sunday, September 25, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 114: Tank Warfare Against the Nazis

Guest: Peter Hart

Sunday, September 18, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 113: The Cold War Superspy

Guest: Tim Tate

Sunday, September 11, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 112: The 29th Division in World War II

Guest: Joseph Balkoski

Sunday, September 4, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 111: British Pacifists in World War II

Guest: Tobias Kelly

Sunday, August 28, 2022

History Happy Hour Encore: The Alamo in Myth and Reality

Guest: Bryan Burrough

Sunday, August 21, 2022

History Happy Hour Encore: Britain's WWII Spymaster

Guest: Dr. Helen Fry

Sunday, August 14, 2022

History Happy Hour Encore: Freedom Riders

Guest: Charles Person

Sunday, August 7, 2022

History Happy Hour Encore: The Dieppe Raid: A New Take

Guest: David O'Keefe

Sunday, July 31, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 110: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and the Last Stand of the Sioux

Guest: Mark Lee Gardner

Sunday, July 24, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 109: Revolutionary War Privateers

Guest: Eric Jay Dolin

Sunday, July 17, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 108: Lord Cornwallis

Guests: Richard Middleton

Sunday, July 10, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 107: Interrogating German Generals in Washington DC

Guests: Robert K. Sutton

Sunday, July 3, 2022

History Happy Hour Encore: King George III

Guests: Andrew Roberts

Sunday, June 26, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 106: Down by the Sea in Books

Guests: Admiral James Stavridis

Sunday, June 19, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 105: USSR vs Japan 1939 -The Battle of Khalkhin Gol

Guests: David Murphy

Sunday, June 12, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 104: Maximilian and Carlota

Guests: Edward Shawcross

Sunday, June 5, 2022

History Happy Hour Episode 104: Eisenhower's Memoirs - Cancelled

Guests: Professor Nicolaus Mills from Sarah Lawrence College

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Encore: The Finnish Soviet War

Guests: Dr. David Murphy author of The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin’s Hollow Victory

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Episode 103: The Battle of Midway

Guests: Brendan Simms and co-author Steven McGregor of The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

Sunday, May 15, 2022

Episode 102: Ancient Sparta

Guest: Philip Matyszak, author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation

Sunday, May 8, 2022

Encore Episode: Jewish Women Resistance Fighters

Guest: Judy Batalion, author of The Light of Days

Sunday, May 1, 2022

Episode 101: The Windsors and Their Scandalous Exile

Guest: Andrew Lownie, author of Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor.

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Episode 100: Nazi Billionaires: Dynasties of the Third Reich

Guest: David De Jong, author of Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Episode 99: The Afterlife of Ben Franklin

Guest: Michael Meyer, Author, Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

Sunday, April 10, 2022

Episode 98: HHH Special: Normandy Master Class

Hosts Chris Anderson and Rick Beyer exploring the beaches and battlefields of Normandy - in person

Sunday, April 3, 2022

Encore Episode: The Life and Death of a Nazi Fugitive

Guest: Philippe Sands, author, The Ratline

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Episode 97: World War I German Sabotage

Guest: Michael Digby, author Burn, Bomb, Destroy: German Sabotage Campaign in North American 1914-1917

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Episode 96: War in the Ukraine: History Repeats?

Guests: Sean McMeekin, author, Stalin's war, David Murphy, author The Winter War

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Episode 95: The Argonne (WWI)

Guest: Richard Merry, author The Great War in the Argonne Forest

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Episode 94: The Spy Hotel

Guest: Stephen Duffy, Security Manager, St. Ermin's Hotel

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Episode 93: WWII's British 'Band of Brothers'

Guest: Peter Hart, author, At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment 1939-1945

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Episode 92: Robert E. Lee

Guest: Allen Guelzo, author, Robert E. Lee A Life

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Encore Episode: Marian Anderson, Voice of Freedom

Guest: Dr. Adriane Lentz-Smith, Duke Historian

Sunday, February 6, 2022

Episode 91: General George patton

Guest, Kevin Hymel, author Patton's War

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Encore Episode: The Ghost Army

Co-host Rick Beyer talks about the WWII Warriors of Deception

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Episode 90: Black Medal of Honor Recipients in WWII

Rob Child, author, Immortal Valor: The Black Medal of Honor Winners of World War II

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Episode 89: Freedom Riders

Guest: Charles Person , author, Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Episode 88: Irish Invasion of Canda

Guest: Christopher Klein, author, When the Irish Invaded Canada: The Incredible True Story of the Civil War Veterans who Fought for Ireland's Freedom

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Episode 87: Dieppe Revisited

Guest: Patrick Bishop, author, Operation Juiblee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Encore Episode: Lt. DIck Winters and Easy Company

Co-host Chris Anderson about his relationship with Lt Winters of Band of Brothers fame

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Episode 86: WWII's China-Burma-India Theater

Guest: Robert Lyman, author, A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941–45

Sunday, December 12, 2021

Episode 85: Hitler's American Gamble

Guests: Brendan Simms and Charles Laderman, authors, Hitler's Americam Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Episode 84: Britain's WWII Spymaster

Guest: Helen Fry, author, Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Encore Episode : Cartoonist Bill Mauldin

Guest: Todd DePastino, author of Drawing Fire: the Editorial Cartoons of Bill Mauldin

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Episode 83: George III #RevNov!

Andrew Roberts, author, The Last King of America

Sunday, November 14, 2021

Episode 82: The Marquis de Lafeyette #RevNov!

Mike Duncan, author, Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Episode 81: Lexington and Concord #RevNov!

Guest: John Bell, author, The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Episode 80: Conquering the Pacific

Guest: Andrés Reséndez, author of Conquering the Pacific: An unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Episode 79: The Battle for Brest

Guest: Joe Balkoski, author of Beachhead to Brittany: The 29th Infantry Division at Brest

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Episode 78: Japanese Kamikaze Rocket Pilots

Guest: Dan King, author of Blossoms From the Sky: Firsthand Accounts from Kamikaze Pilots Who Volunteered to Fly the Ohka Baka Bomb

Sunday, October 3, 2021

Episode 77: The Great Escape of WWI

Guest: Margalit Fox, author of The Confidence Men: How Two Prisons of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History.

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Episode 76: Drunk History

Guest: Edward Slingerland

Sunday, September 19, 2021

Episode 75: The Hunt for Bin Laden

Guest: Chris Wallace, author of The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Episode 74: Forget the Alamo!

Guest: Bryan Burrough, author of Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an America Myth

Sunday, September 5, 2021

Episode 73: National History Day

Various Guests

Sunday, August 22, 2021

Episode 72: Japanese-American GI’s in WWII – The 442nd Regimental Combat Team

Daniel James Brown, author of Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Episode 71: How Vikings Changed the World

Guest: Arthur Herman, author of THE VIKING HEART: How Scandinavians Conquered the World

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Episode 70: The Dieppe Raid

Guest: David O’Keefe, author, One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe

Sunday, August 1, 2021

Episode 69: Joseph Kennedy

Susan Ronald, author, The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James 1938-1940

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Episode 68: The 101st Airborne in Vietnam

Guest: Ed Sherwood, author, Courage Under Fire: The 101st Airborne’s Hidden Battle at Tam Ky

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Episode 67: Jewish Resistance Fighters

Guest: Judy Batalion, author, The Light of Days

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Episode 66: The Winter War:

Guest: David Murphy, author, The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939–40: Stalin's Hollow Victory

Sunday, June 6, 2021

Episode 62: D-Day Special

Guests: Gile Milton, Joe Balksoki and Craig Symonds

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