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History Guys

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Two historians discuss history, current events, movies and anything else they happen upon in an informed--often sardonic and inappropriate--way. Listen in, every Saturday at 5 PM Eastern, 2 PM Pacific!

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Alex is doing his last show from Las Vegas before moving to Texas to corrupt young minds. The guys talk about moving for jobs, job hunting, and probably get to some history somewhere along the way.
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It's been a whole year since our first show aired and we're still here--still with no sponsors and over 50,000 listens, what the hell!? Join us as we review our work over the last year and talk about what is to come in the future, aside... more
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Dan and Alex actually review, as previously promised, Geoffrey Wawro's "The Franco-Prussian War."
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ian War. The title wouldn't fit, but we've got a full show after a two week hiatus--this time Alex's fault. The guys have seen some movies and read some books and now they're going to tell you about it. Alex is preparing to teach a... more
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Dan and Alex review Paul Cartledge's new book, After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars.
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Dan and Alex forgoe talking about movies to talk about history. About midway the weeping stops.
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Dan and Alex discuss the news of the day and also plot what book they should both read for another joint review episode. Oh, this is exciting radio!
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Dan and Alex discuss recent news and history stories--while trying to keep things light and humorous. Perhaps they will fail or succeed, but you can be sure they will laugh. 39 episodes? What the hell? How did that happen?!
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Alex recounts a meeting with an old friend from Germany who listens to the History Guys and then conducts a lecturing Q & A with Dan about the Mexican-American War on the request of said Deutche pal.
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Alex recounts his visit to the John F. Kennedy Presidential LIbrary. Dan introduces story about Kennedy's views of fascism in the later 1930's and early 1940's.
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