ABOUT

Dr. Greg Jackson is best known as the creator and host of the top history podcast History That Doesn’t Suck! With Prof. Greg Jackson and the stage show The Unlikely Union which has played to sold out shows across 29 states and D.C. Jackson holds a PhD in history and is a tenured Associate Professor at Utah Valley University, where he is the America 250 Professor in the Center for Constitutional Studies and a Senior Fellow in the Center for National Security Studies. His forthcoming book, Been There, Done That: How Our History Shows What We Can Overcome, will be published by Simon & Schuster in June 2026. He is also a frequent commentator in HISTORY® Channel documentaries including History’s Greatest of All Time with Peyton Manning, The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd, The Engineering That Built the World, The Toys That Built America, How Disney Built America, Dark Files, and still other shows, including the three-night event Abraham Lincoln Executive Produced by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin and featuring former President Barack Obama among other eminent figures and history scholars. Jackson has also appeared in the National Geographic Channel® series Secrets Declassified.