The Skeptic's Guide to American History Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Religious Toleration in Colonial America?

Wed, Jul 13, 2022 29 mins

Get a fast-moving examination of the origins of religious and racial tolerance in America.

Episode 2

Neither American nor Revolutionary?

Wed, Jul 13, 2022 29 mins

Episode 3

The Constitution Did Not Create a Democracy

Wed, Jul 13, 2022 31 mins

Episode 4

Washington - Failures and Real Accomplishments

Wed, Jul 13, 2022 28 mins

Episode 5

Confusions about Jefferson and Hamilton

28 mins

Episode 6

Andrew Jackson - An Odd Symbol of Democracy

30 mins

Episode 7

Did Slavery Really Cause the Civil War?

29 mins

Episode 8

The Civil War's Actual Turning Points

28 mins

Episode 9

The Myth of Laissez-Faire

28 mins

Episode 10

Misconceptions about the Original Populists

31 mins

Is a reference to someone as a "populist" praise or criticism? Does it have any reference to where a person stands on the political spectrum? This lecture analyzes the nation's original populist movement and what links - if any - it has to contemporary namesakes.

Episode 11

Labor in America - A Strange History

29 mins

Episode 12

Myths about American Isolation and Empire

28 mins

Episode 13

Early Progressives Were Not Liberals

26 mins

Episode 14

Woodrow Wilson and the Rating of Presidents

29 mins

Episode 15

The Roaring Twenties Reconsidered

29 mins

Episode 16

Hoover and the Great Depression Revisited

29 mins

Episode 17

What Did Roosevelt's New Deal Really Do?

33 mins

Episode 18

World War II Misconceptions and Myths

29 mins

Episode 19

Was the Cold War Inevitable?

32 mins

Episode 20

The Real Blunders of the Vietnam War

30 mins

Episode 21

Myths about American Wars

30 mins

Episode 22

Who Matters in American History?

29 mins

Episode 23

History Did Not Begin with Us

36 mins