Coffee With Jeff

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Latest Episodes

Favorite Historical Films
December 27, 2020

Gordon and Nancy Frye chat about six of their favorite historical films, with a few bonus mentions.

Questionable Historical Elections
December 14, 2020

A short history of questionable elections in United States history, featuring Gordon Frye.

The Nellie Bly Story Part 2
November 29, 2020

In 1888, Nellie Bly decided to take a working vacation, a trip around the world. Not only would she write about her adventures, but she would also try to complete the journey in under 80 days, beating the time of Jules Verne’s fictional hero, Phileas Fogg

The Nellie Bly Story Part 1
November 15, 2020

This is the story of a young, pretty woman in the latter half of the nineteenth century who oddly had no desire to get married, have kids, or run a household. She became a pioneering reform-minded journalist, exposing many injustices and corruption in Ame

Killer Women!
November 01, 2020

On this special Halloween edition of CWJ, I present two true stories of Serial killer. First, in 1880, Catherine and Margaret Flannagan found a great way to make extra cash, it just took a little arsenic. The second tale is the story of a nurse who they c

The Daniel Sickles Story Part 2
October 18, 2020

This episode is the second part of the story of Daniel Sickle, a very unusual man that lived in the ninetieth century. Dan was disgraced for forgiving his wife for having an affair, so he thought the best thing to do was be a General in the American Civil

The Daniel Sickles Story Part 1
October 04, 2020

This episode is the first part of the story of Daniel Sickle, a very unusual man that lived in the ninetieth century. In 1859 he shot and killed a man in front of the White House in Washington DC in front of several witnesses and got away with it. And it

Outsider Presidents
September 20, 2020

There's nothing new under the sun, especially when it comes to high-stakes politics, and things really get crazy when an outsider throws their hat in the ring!

Rosalind Franklin
September 06, 2020

Back in the early 1950s, there was a race to discover DNA. When it was over, three men would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Overlooked at the time was a remarkable chemist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. Today I have this wo

Albert Einstein's Brain
August 23, 2020

This is the story of Dr. Thomas S. Harvey who did the autopsy of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. When he finished, he kept something to study… Einstein’s brain! For more than 40 years, he would travel around with the brain. This is the story of Dr.