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History in a Hurry

Feb 23, 2019

In 1965, Special Forces member Roy Benavidez stepped on a landmine in South Vietnam. He was told he would never walk again. Not only did Roy prove his doctors wrong, he would return to Vietnam three years later and go on to save the lives of eight people.


Feb 16, 2019

Jack & Lauren pick up right where they left off in the crazy, epic life of Alexander the Great. The Macedonian King takes on the ruler of Persia, & some of his men grow weary of the long military campaign. Alexander’s quest for conquering continues on History in a Hurry!


Feb 9, 2019

He was Alexander III of Macedon, but today almost everyone knows him as “Alexander the Great”. By age 30, he had created one of the largest empires in the world, ruling from Greece to northwestern India. Join Lauren and Jack for Part I of this man’s bold, dangerous and deadly adventures.


Feb 2, 2019

Thurgood Marshall was born just 12 years after the Supreme Court ruled there was apparently nothing wrong with “separate but equal”. On today’s episode of History in a Hurry, Jack & Lauren dive into how Marshall became the powerhouse lawyer who took down segregation & went on to become the first African American...