How the McCormick Reaper Freed America's Farmers From the Scythe Before the Combine Took Over

How John Deere's Steel Plow Broke the American Prairie Before Tractors Took Over the Fields

The True Origin of the Vietnam War: What Historians Get Wrong

Russia Sold Alaska to America for $7.2 Million — So Why Did It Give Up So Much Land?

The Assassins Who Terrified Crusaders and Sultans — The Truth Behind the Hashshashin

America Built the World’s Greatest Industrial Empire — So Why Did It Destroy Its Own Factories?

Britain Gave One Man 5 Weeks to Split British India — Then Millions Were Forced From Their Homes

Detroit Once Controlled 90% of America’s Car Market — So Why Did Americans Start Buying Japanese?

How Saudi Arabia Brought America to Its Knees — The 1973 Oil Embargo

Mexico Stopped Paying Its Debts — So France Invaded and Installed an Emperor

Britain Gave Two-Thirds of Kuwait to Ibn Saud. Kuwait Wasn’t Even Invited to the Deal!

Sykes-Picot 1916: The Secret Map Two Men Drew That Still Runs the Middle East

How America Overtook Britain to Become the World's Economic Superpower

The True Origin of Prohibition: What Historians Get Wrong

The True Origin of the 2008 Financial Crisis: What Historians Get Wrong

Suez 1956: How One Phone Call From Washington Bankrupted the British Empire in a Weekend

Iran 1953: How Britain and the CIA Overthrew a Country to Keep Its Oil

The True Origin of the Spanish Inquisition: What Historians Get Wrong

The True Origin of the Russian Revolution: It Didn’t Start With Lenin

Aramco: How America Quietly Took Over Saudi Arabia's Oil — and Never Let Go

Britain Forced a Country to Buy Drugs at Gunpoint — Then Billed Them for the War

Egypt 1882: How Britain Turned a Debt Default Into a 70-Year Occupation

The Baghdad Railway: How a German Railroad to the Gulf Helped Start World War I

The Bankers Who Started the Reformation — How a 1517 Loan Split Christianity Forever

The 1946 Loan That Finished the British Empire — How America Bought Britain's Freedom

Britain Created Iraq to Control Its Oil — Then Installed Its Own King

How Britain Created Jordan After WWI — Then Put a Foreign Prince on the Throne

January 28, 2019