American History Hotline
Episodes
Why Does America Have the Electoral College? Peter Sagal Explains
Host Bob Crawford interviews Peter Sagal to address a listener's question about the Electoral College.
Why Did the U.S. Army Keep Disbanding the Rangers?
Host Bob Crawford interviews Brian Halstead, president of the U.
How Did the Cold War End? Reagan, Gorbachev & the Secret Summit That Changed History
Host Bob Crawford interviews Michael Russell Gunn, writer and director of the new film *The Brink of War*.
Why Did Disease Devastate Native Americans—but Not European Colonists? | Charles C. Mann
Host Bob Crawford interviews author Charles C.
The Man Who Saved Kyoto?
Host Bob Crawford and historian Alex Wellerstein investigate why Kyoto was spared from the atomic bomb.
Did Amelia Earhart survive her disappearance? (Part 2)
Host Bob Crawford interviews investigator Rick Gillespie about Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, arguing she successfully landed on Gardner Island.
What Happened to Amelia Earhart? Inside the World's Greatest Aviation Mystery (Part 1)
Host Bob Crawford interviews Smithsonian curator Dorothy Cochran to explore Amelia Earhart’s life and her 1937 disappearance.