"Guest of Adolf" with author Michael Zang

"Guest of Adolf" with author Michael Zang

Ernest Virgil Focht was a Pennsylvania native and was captured in his first action in February 1943, remaining a prisoner of war until May 1945. During these 27 months he was held in five different POW camps, and was forced to march between camps in the depths of the 1944-45 winter. Lean about Ernie's experiences as a prisoner of war. Donate [https://pcntv.com/donate] | Signup [https://pcntv.com/membership-signup] | pcntv.com [https://pcntv.com]

"Rebels at Sea" with author Eric Jay Dolin

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation's character-above all, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. Donate [https://pcntv.com/donate] | Signup [https://pcntv.com/membership-signup] | pcntv.com [https://pcntv.com]

"Winning the Ten Crucial Days" with author David Price

The "Ten Crucial Days" winter campaign of 1776-77 is one of the most storied in the annals of military history. David Price examines this pivotal moment in the American War of Independence through an interpretive framework that focuses on five key factors: leadership, geography, weather, artillery, and contingency. Donate [https://pcntv.com/donate] | Signup [https://pcntv.com/membership-signup] | pcntv.com [https://pcntv.com]

"Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters" with author Kim Gruenwald

Why did the Midwest become part of the United States instead of remaining under English, Spanish, or Native control? In Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters, historian Kim M. Gruenwald reveals commerce and trade, rather than war and political conflict, as the driving force behind America's westward expansion. Donate [https://pcntv.com/donate] | Signup [https://pcntv.com/membership-signup] | pcntv.com [https://pcntv.com]

"Rescuing the Republic" with author Andrew Browning

The first examination of how James Madison and the Annapolis Convention defied all odds and expectations to begin the near-impossible process of restructuring the federal government and worked to bring the republic back from the brink of collapse. Donate [https://pcntv.com/donate] | Signup [https://pcntv.com/membership-signup] | pcntv.com [https://pcntv.com]