

American History Hit
History Hit
Join Don Wildman twice a week for your hit of American history, as he explores the past to help us understand the United States of today. We’ll hear how codebreakers uncovered secret Japanese plans for the Battle of Midway, visit Chief Powhatan as he prepares for war with the British, see Walt Disney accuse his former colleagues of being communists, and uncover the dark history that lies beneath Central Park. From pre-colonial America to independence, slavery to civil rights, the gold rush to the space race, join Don as he speaks to leading experts to delve into America’s past. New episodes every Monday and Thursday. Brought to you by History Hit, the award-winning podcast network and world’s best history channel on demand, featuring shows like Dan Snow’s History Hit, Not Just The Tudors and Betwixt the Sheets.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the American History Hit podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The impossible presidency

#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Winter War
Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Vietnam War, A Concise International History
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Creepy Crawly: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The end of history
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How the New World Became Old, the Deep Time Revolution in America
The Deep Time Revolution in America
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Impossible Monsters
Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the War Between Science and Religion
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Staying Alive, the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Y the Last Man
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
America Is the Prison
Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Gangster Hunters

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Beverly Hills Spy
The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
American Oasis
Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest

#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Frederick Douglass

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Mexico's Cold War
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Sharing the Burden: Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War

#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Black reconstruction

#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
War and Peace

#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Nothing but Blood And Slaughter

#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes