Radio War Nerd

Recorded: January 10, 2022 Though badly wounded, the War Nerd kicks off 2022 with a new installment of the RWN US Civil War series. This episode: we recover distorted history on the last president before the Civil War, James Buchanan, who's been falsely portrayed as a weak and indecisive failure, ra

Guest: Thomas Whigham, author & professor Recorded: March 22, 2019 Also known as the "Paraguayan War"—the War of the Triple Alliance in the 1860s was the bloodiest war in South America, and ended with the near total-extermination of Paraguay's adult male population. It remains an all too obscure war