Conservative Historian

Send us Fan Mail We look at LBJ's Great Society and determine its legacy.  

Send us Fan Mail Every year I repost this episode at this time.  A history of the holiday that honors those whose sacrifice made all of this possible.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at the career of Diocletian to determine the effectiveness of his reign and reforms.  

Send us Fan Mail We travel to late 12th century Europe and meet two kings who started as allies and ended as bitter enemies.  Their rivalry changed Western European history.

Send us Fan Mail We explore wars ranging from the American Revolution to the current situation in Iran and explore how nations get stuck.  

Send us Fan Mail We are joined on the podcast by  Jack Henneman, founder of the History of the Americans Podcast.  We discuss Bacon's Rebellion and Colonial Virginia and a few other topics.  

Send us Fan Mail Cato and Caesar were there at the end of the Roman Republic.  We look at the both men to try to gain insights into the end of an era.  

Send us Fan Mail We begin with the founding of Antioch in 300 BC and to its last major sacking in 1268 AD, and all points in between.  

Send us Fan Mail Our guest is Prof. William Anthony Hay, author of Lord Liverpool: A Political Life.  We discuss the Napoleonic Era and afterwards from a British perspective.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at the the purpose, or non purpose, of the No Kings protests.  

Send us Fan Mail We explore the Jewish, pagan, and Christian roots of the holiday of Easter.  

Send us Fan Mail We meet Charles II of the English Restoration.  His life was the paradox of the Merry Monarch and a strategic, serious ruler.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at Malthus, Erlich and Human prosperity in this episode.  

Send us Fan Mail Joined by my brother Chris, we look at the Oscar race and wondering if politically correct positions and attractive actresses uglying themselves up is the path to victory.  

Send us Fan Mail We go through every war and and general in history and choose the greatest based on battlefield brilliance, army build and strategic genius.    

Send us Fan Mail We look at movies ranging from Young Mr. Lincoln to ... Lincoln.  From Fail Safe to The American President.  

Send us Fan Mail We explore the 2nd half of The Wars of the Roses and meet with a host of disloyal figures including Warwick, Stanley, Clarence and most of all, Richard III 

Send us Fan Mail We begin our exploration of the English Wars of the Roses noting that they emanated from the rule, or misrule, of the weak King Henry VI.  

Send us Fan Mail We have a conservation with John Oller, author of The Swamp Fox, a book about Francis Marion, and Gangster Hunters, about the 1930s FBI. 

Send us Fan Mail We wade into the current Helen of Troy in Nolan's Odyssey debate to discuss the diverse casting for selected movie roles.  

Send us Fan Mail We look at the role of performance in government going back to the Egyptians, Akkadians and fast forwarding to FDR.  

Send us Fan Mail Mike Coté of Rational Policy joins the podcast. We discuss current US policy regarding Greenland, Venezuela and China - and also have a shout out to Henry VIII.   See Mike's blog and podcast - www.rationalpolicy.com Recent Mike articles:  nationalreview.com/2025/07/why-the-iranian-regime-is-still-uniquely-dangerous providencemag.com/2025/12/the-case-for-interdicting-sanctions...

Send us Fan Mail In the light of the capture of Nicholas Maduro, we explore the original intention of the Monroe Doctrine, what it later became, and what such a doctrine means for America today.  

Send us Fan Mail We go from Edward IV of England to Mohammad to Gaius Marius to find historical figures who made impressive comebacks.  

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we explore the date of Jesus' birth and what keeping Christmas means.