Here’s a headline you likely missed amidst the flurry of world war updates and cannibal-pedophiles-eating-babies stories that have been clogging the newswires of late: “ENIAC, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80!” Yes, while the 80th...
Robert writes in to ask James about the bundles of sticks behind the speaker’s chair in the US congress chamber. James responds with a history lesson about the fasces, its use throughout history, how it arrived on the shores of America, and what it really...
A listener writes in to ask about Saddam Hussein’s connections to intelligence agencies. James answers with a deep dive on Saddam’s CIA-backed rise to power and his intelligence agency-engineered double cross and downfall. Don’t miss this in-depth...
In case you haven’t heard, the JFK files just dropped recently. So, what are these documents? Where did they come from? What do they contain? And, most important of all, why have they been hidden from us for over 60 years? James has the answers in this deep dive...
I’m still on August hiatus, but here’s a two-hour lecture on the history of mass media to tide you over until September! This is Lesson One of my three-lesson Mass Media: A History online course. Buy the complete course for audio and video downloads, a...
