Retropod

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Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters - forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers.

Episode Date
Earthrise
Dec 31, 2019
Hair peace. Bed peace.
Dec 30, 2019
The jazz queen who chose home over fame
Dec 27, 2019
Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims
Dec 26, 2019
The military's famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number
Dec 25, 2019
The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.
Dec 23, 2019
Last Seen Ads
Dec 20, 2019
How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL
Dec 19, 2019
The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame
Dec 18, 2019
How food found its way into the freezer
Dec 17, 2019
The day before the Chernobyl disaster
Dec 16, 2019
The most difficult job Robert Mueller ever had
Dec 13, 2019
Queen Arawelo
Dec 12, 2019
The nurse who picked up a rifle
Dec 11, 2019
George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL
Dec 10, 2019
The summer men rebelled against their shirts
Dec 09, 2019
America’s forgotten Iranian hostage
Dec 06, 2019
A bridge of ice at Niagara Falls
Dec 05, 2019
The Soviet officer who stopped World War III
Dec 04, 2019
Why isn’t lynching illegal?
Dec 03, 2019
A letter from home
Dec 02, 2019
The test that changed childbirth
Nov 29, 2019
A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve?
Nov 28, 2019
Benjamin Franklin's complicated relationship with turkeys
Nov 27, 2019
The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food
Nov 26, 2019
How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
Nov 25, 2019
The man who filmed JFK's assassination
Nov 22, 2019
The 'Night Witches'
Nov 21, 2019
Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena
Nov 20, 2019
Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy
Nov 19, 2019
Ketamine in the mainstream
Nov 18, 2019
The first 'Queen of the Air'
Nov 14, 2019
Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood
Nov 13, 2019
Jim Crow and the rise of blackface
Nov 12, 2019
The policeman who arrested a president
Nov 11, 2019
A history of the U.S.-Mexico border
Nov 08, 2019
The godmother of the open office
Nov 07, 2019
The Wicked Bible
Nov 06, 2019
The Confederate spy who evaded capture
Nov 05, 2019
Pinball’s sordid past
Nov 04, 2019
The last person to step foot on the moon
Nov 01, 2019
A history of hats in the House
Oct 31, 2019
Tenure for life
Oct 30, 2019
How Lego took over the toy world
Oct 29, 2019
The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet
Oct 28, 2019
A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat
Oct 25, 2019
William Howard Taft's housekeeper kept track of his weight
Oct 24, 2019
In 1939, the 'American Hitler' took the stage at Madison Square Garden
Oct 23, 2019
The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court
Oct 22, 2019
The first campus shooting
Oct 21, 2019
The origins of the Unknown Soldier
Oct 18, 2019
America and warfare were never the same after World War I
Oct 16, 2019
The campus massacre before Kent State
Oct 15, 2019
Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
Oct 14, 2019
The presidential pardon the country never forgot
Oct 11, 2019
How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
Oct 10, 2019
Mary Ann Van Hoof and her Marian apparitions
Oct 09, 2019
Close encounters with the Capitol's Demon Cat
Oct 08, 2019
New York's mad bomber
Oct 07, 2019
The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer
Oct 04, 2019
The photographer and the busboy
Oct 03, 2019
The time America invaded Britain
Oct 02, 2019
Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his 'angel mother' and 'mama'
Oct 01, 2019
The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel
Sep 30, 2019
Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman
Sep 27, 2019
The body of Emmett Till
Sep 26, 2019
The origins of the Waterloo teeth
Sep 25, 2019
In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships
Sep 24, 2019
How the teddy bear was born
Sep 23, 2019
The Saturday Night Massacre
Sep 20, 2019
How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous
Sep 19, 2019
How a renovation made the Supreme Court a friendlier place
Sep 18, 2019
The heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse
Sep 17, 2019
The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis
Sep 13, 2019
Colonel Blood, the scoundrel who tried to steal Great Britain's crown jewels
Sep 12, 2019
The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
Sep 11, 2019
Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet
Sep 10, 2019
The Nazi stone
Sep 09, 2019
Paul Jennings, the former slave who disputed a legend from history
Sep 06, 2019
Winnie and Nelson Mandela's marriage survived prison but not freedom
Sep 05, 2019
The dark history of the pill
Sep 04, 2019
Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?
Sep 03, 2019
The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon
Sep 02, 2019
The worst presidents
Aug 30, 2019
The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys
Aug 29, 2019
Being a maverick almost stopped John McCain from becoming a public servant
Aug 28, 2019
LBJ's political bombshell
Aug 27, 2019
The most romantic day
Aug 26, 2019
The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh
Aug 23, 2019
The photographer who helped end child labor in America
Aug 22, 2019
The performance that saved Johnny Cash's career
Aug 21, 2019
When Olympic silver beats gold
Aug 20, 2019
Meet Paul Manafort's century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits
Aug 19, 2019
How Hollywood's first major blockbuster revived the KKK
Aug 16, 2019
The biscuit tin that protected the crown jewels
Aug 15, 2019
Rosie the Riveter isn't who you think she is
Aug 14, 2019
Reagan's most historic speech took a few years to make an impact
Aug 13, 2019
How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began
Aug 12, 2019
The first congresswoman's vote
Aug 09, 2019
The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK
Aug 08, 2019
The man and the coconut that saved JFK
Aug 07, 2019
The first daughters
Aug 06, 2019
The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing
Aug 05, 2019
The fact and fiction of Prince Philip
Aug 02, 2019
What Operation Pied Piper taught us about family separations
Aug 01, 2019
The teen who tied a Virginia election
Jul 31, 2019
The books the presidents read
Jul 30, 2019
How God became part of the pledge
Jul 29, 2019
How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military
Jul 26, 2019
The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die
Jul 25, 2019
The femme fatale
Jul 24, 2019
The congressman who shot a waiter
Jul 23, 2019
The children's crusade
Jul 22, 2019
Introducing Moonrise
Jul 19, 2019
The time Truman met with Stalin and it went well
Jul 18, 2019
Mrs. Graham
Jul 17, 2019
The storied past of Alderson federal women's prison
Jul 16, 2019
The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space
Jul 15, 2019
The first shark attacks
Jul 12, 2019
The oldest surviving banjo recording
Jul 11, 2019
The Jedwabne massacre
Jul 10, 2019
The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'
Jul 09, 2019
The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
Jul 08, 2019
Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office
Jul 05, 2019
Thomas Jefferson's last letter
Jul 04, 2019
The epic bender that launched America
Jul 03, 2019
The time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
Jul 02, 2019
Suzanne Lenglen, the first goddess of tennis
Jul 01, 2019
The first pride parade
Jun 28, 2019
The rainless flood that destroyed a city
Jun 27, 2019
How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady
Jun 26, 2019
The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools
Jun 25, 2019
The origins of the National Rifle Association
Jun 24, 2019
How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini
Jun 21, 2019
The man who won World War II
Jun 20, 2019
Oregon was America’s first and only state to begin as 'whites-only'
Jun 19, 2019
Publishers hated ‘A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections
Jun 18, 2019
This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him
Jun 17, 2019
A history of extreme makeovers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Jun 14, 2019
The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement
Jun 13, 2019
Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career
Jun 12, 2019
The 'temporary insanity' legal defense started with an affair
Jun 11, 2019
Eisenhower’s famous speech to U.S. troops the day before D-Day
Jun 10, 2019
The painter who became the CIA’s master of disguise
Jun 07, 2019
The ax that killed Leon Trotsky
Jun 06, 2019
That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine
Jun 05, 2019
The pistols that almost fell from the sky
Jun 04, 2019
The rat that helped win the Cold War
Jun 03, 2019
The test that changed childbirth
May 31, 2019
Amid rising tension between the U.S. and Cuba, Hemingway's widow went on a literary rescue mission
May 30, 2019
Frank Lloyd Wright tried to create a perfect house for an imperfect world
May 29, 2019
Rising from ruin: The many rebuilds of Notre Dame
May 28, 2019
A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve?
May 24, 2019
How food found its way into the freezer
May 23, 2019
The man who helped create the first measles vaccine didn’t vaccinate his own son
May 22, 2019
Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims
May 21, 2019
Why Naval Academy students climb a greased up obelisk every year
May 20, 2019
The forgotten pioneers of the first American utopia
May 17, 2019
The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame
May 16, 2019
The unlikely beginning of paint-by-number
May 15, 2019
The jazz queen who chose home over fame
May 14, 2019
The most difficult job Robert Mueller ever had
May 13, 2019
Anna Jarvis spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it
May 10, 2019
John Brown's prophecy
May 09, 2019
The books presidents read
May 08, 2019
The original Alcoholics Anonymous book was auctioned for millions, but its author was never paid
May 07, 2019
The invention of sarin
May 06, 2019
May the Fourth be with you
May 03, 2019
Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant.
May 02, 2019
Meet the Press
May 01, 2019
The mother who made George Washington miserable
Apr 30, 2019
The Sullivan brothers
Apr 29, 2019
Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party
Apr 26, 2019
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day was once just for daughters
Apr 25, 2019
These guys were college jocks, and then became presidents of the United States
Apr 24, 2019
The truth is out there
Apr 23, 2019
One broadcast helped turn Americans against the Vietnam War
Apr 22, 2019
Egg Roll
Apr 19, 2019
Chillicothe, Missouri: The town that invented sliced bread
Apr 18, 2019
The black power protest that shook the world
Apr 17, 2019
History's most fascinating misquote
Apr 16, 2019
Hate the IRS? Blame Abraham Lincoln.
Apr 12, 2019
The Mouth of the South
Apr 12, 2019
Hair peace. Bed peace.
Apr 11, 2019
Queen Arawelo
Apr 10, 2019
The man who killed Bonnie and Clyde
Apr 09, 2019
Ketamine in the mainstream
Apr 05, 2019
From handsaws to parades: D.C.’s cherry blossom trees weren’t always beloved
Apr 05, 2019
The day before the Chernobyl disaster
Apr 04, 2019
Last Seen Ads
Apr 03, 2019
Earthrise
Apr 02, 2019
George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL
Apr 01, 2019
The first 'Queen of the Air'
Mar 29, 2019
A spy in the Confederate White House
Mar 28, 2019
The nurse who picked up a rifle
Mar 27, 2019
The 'Night Witches'
Mar 26, 2019
The extraordinary life of Civil War veteran Albert Cashier
Mar 25, 2019
The first black senator and America’s brief biracial democracy
Mar 22, 2019
Why isn’t lynching illegal?
Mar 21, 2019
Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena
Mar 20, 2019
Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood
Mar 19, 2019
A rich piece of scandal
Mar 18, 2019
The godfather of bracketology
Mar 15, 2019
To ban a 'Mockingbird'
Mar 14, 2019
The history of epic North Korean insults
Mar 13, 2019
Special delivery!
Mar 12, 2019
Why Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history
Mar 11, 2019
The glass ceiling
Mar 08, 2019
The woman behind Lisa Ben
Mar 07, 2019
The night America burned
Mar 06, 2019
Was Mary Todd Lincoln a leaker?
Mar 05, 2019
The forbidden question
Mar 04, 2019
The best birthday card ever
Mar 01, 2019
The houses built by slaves
Feb 28, 2019
How are you, Grandmama?
Feb 27, 2019
The crooked picture
Feb 26, 2019
The Limping Lady
Feb 25, 2019
And the winner is...
Feb 22, 2019
What hath God wrought?
Feb 21, 2019
The ice queen
Feb 20, 2019
The electric rivalry
Feb 19, 2019
All the Presidents' Ghosts
Feb 18, 2019
The spy plane
Feb 15, 2019
Before the Lovings, another interracial couple fought to marry
Feb 14, 2019
Dr. Spock
Feb 13, 2019
The first female Marine
Feb 12, 2019
Philadelphia's plumbing revolution: wood pipes
Feb 11, 2019
Jim Crow and the rise of blackface
Feb 08, 2019
The Wicked Bible
Feb 07, 2019
How the State of the Union went from speech to spectacle
Feb 06, 2019
Winifred Stanley, a forgotten equal pay pioneer
Feb 05, 2019
The Soviet officer who stopped World War III
Feb 04, 2019
How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL
Feb 01, 2019
The godmother of the open office
Jan 31, 2019
The Confederate spy who evaded capture
Jan 30, 2019
The rise of supermarkets
Jan 29, 2019
How the Doomsday Clock came to be
Jan 28, 2019
Pinball’s sordid past
Jan 25, 2019
The man inside the minds of a million consumers
Jan 24, 2019
A history of hats in the House
Jan 23, 2019
The last person to set foot on the moon
Jan 22, 2019
How Martin Luther King Jr. got his name
Jan 21, 2019
Tenure for life
Jan 18, 2019
The hatchet wielding leader of the anti-alcohol movement
Jan 17, 2019
A bridge of ice at Niagara Falls
Jan 16, 2019
The only person Hitler loved
Jan 15, 2019
A history of the U.S.-Mexico border
Jan 14, 2019
A presidential emergency that didn't end well
Jan 11, 2019
How Lego took over the toy world
Jan 10, 2019
The summer men rebelled against their shirts
Jan 09, 2019
The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet
Jan 08, 2019
One of the greatest astronomers of her generation
Jan 07, 2019
How one World War II veteran lived to be a centenarian
Jan 04, 2019
A wooden mallet with a colorful history of being shattered
Jan 03, 2019
The rabble rouser who inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jan 02, 2019
Mourning Bobby Kennedy
Jan 01, 2019
The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’
Dec 31, 2018
The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
Dec 28, 2018
Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods
Dec 27, 2018
Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up
Dec 26, 2018
Big Bird and the genius inside
Dec 25, 2018
The military’s famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number
Dec 24, 2018
The Christmas Truce
Dec 21, 2018
A piece of punctuation that failed to leave its mark
Dec 20, 2018
President Grant fired his own special prosecutor
Dec 19, 2018
The first presidential press conference
Dec 18, 2018
The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court
Dec 17, 2018
The policeman who arrested a president
Dec 14, 2018
One of the ugliest speaker fights in congressional history
Dec 13, 2018
The evangelist and convicted cat burglar who galvanized gay rights
Dec 12, 2018
In 1939, the 'American Hitler' took the stage at Madison Square Garden
Dec 11, 2018
The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food
Dec 10, 2018
The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.
Dec 07, 2018
America’s first black Catholic priest
Dec 06, 2018
John Adams was eulogized before his son even knew he died
Dec 05, 2018
George H.W. Bush was a president and a prankster
Dec 04, 2018
The unlikely friendship between George H.W. Bush and Dana Carvey
Dec 01, 2018
William Howard Taft’s housekeeper kept track of his weight
Nov 30, 2018
The National Christmas Tree
Nov 29, 2018
The trials and tribulations of being a cat
Nov 28, 2018
Then they came for me
Nov 27, 2018
A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat
Nov 26, 2018
Benjamin Franklin’s complicated relationship with turkeys
Nov 21, 2018
The Green Book
Nov 20, 2018
The origins of the Unknown Soldier
Nov 19, 2018
Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
Nov 16, 2018
Food stamps were born out of a surplus of food
Nov 15, 2018
William Rehnquist's proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor
Nov 14, 2018
The first lady who couldn’t get her memoir published
Nov 13, 2018
Joachim Ronneberg, the saboteur who crippled Nazi atomic bomb project
Nov 12, 2018
America and warfare were never the same after World War I
Nov 09, 2018
Wong Kim Ark's Supreme Court fight for birthright citizenship
Nov 08, 2018
How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
Nov 07, 2018
The makings of an electoral heist
Nov 06, 2018
Rahm Emanuel, Howard Dean and the midterm elections of 2006
Nov 05, 2018
Fall back, spring forward
Nov 02, 2018
Mary Ann Van Hoof and the Marian apparitions
Nov 01, 2018
Close encounters with the Capitol’s Demon Cat
Oct 31, 2018
How Pittsburgh's Mister Rogers talked to children about tragedy
Oct 30, 2018
New York's mad bomber
Oct 29, 2018
The sword pulled from history
Oct 26, 2018
A love supreme: Ruth Bader and Martin Ginsburg
Oct 25, 2018
The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer
Oct 24, 2018
The Sultan of Swat wasn’t always known as a slugger
Oct 23, 2018
Big Bird and the genius inside
Oct 22, 2018
Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman
Oct 19, 2018
The metamorphosis of Jackie O
Oct 18, 2018
The body of Emmett Till
Oct 17, 2018
The photographer and the busboy
Oct 16, 2018
The Romanovs, Russia's 'odious' autocratic family
Oct 15, 2018
The gory origins of the Waterloo teeth
Oct 12, 2018
How the teddy bear was born
Oct 11, 2018
The first black female White House reporter held the powerful accountable on civil rights
Oct 10, 2018
The teenage girl who caught a Nazi monster
Oct 09, 2018
The complicated history of swimsuits and Miss America
Oct 08, 2018
The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis
Oct 05, 2018
The surprising history of the 25th Amendment
Oct 04, 2018
In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships
Oct 03, 2018
America’s forgotten Iranian hostage
Oct 02, 2018
The heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse
Oct 01, 2018
How accusations against Supreme Court nominees were once handled
Sep 28, 2018
The man and the coconut that saved JFK
Sep 27, 2018
Rosie the Riveter isn’t who you think she is
Sep 26, 2018
The presidential pardon the country never forgot
Sep 25, 2018
How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
Sep 24, 2018
The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office
Sep 21, 2018
The photographer who helped end child labor in America
Sep 20, 2018
Only half of George Washington’s Supreme Court justices showed up on time
Sep 19, 2018
Winnie and Nelson Mandela’s marriage survived prison but not freedom
Sep 18, 2018
The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK
Sep 17, 2018
The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel
Sep 14, 2018
The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys
Sep 13, 2018
How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous
Sep 12, 2018
The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
Sep 11, 2018
Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his ‘angel mother’ and ‘mama’
Sep 10, 2018
The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’
Sep 07, 2018
Roe v. Wade’s forgotten loser
Sep 06, 2018
The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh
Sep 05, 2018
The campus massacre before Kent State
Sep 04, 2018
The time the United States illegally deported 1 million Mexican Americans
Sep 03, 2018
The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
Aug 31, 2018
Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up
Aug 30, 2018
How a Supreme Court clerk changed the decision on Clay v. United States
Aug 29, 2018
Colonel Blood, the scoundrel who tried to steal Great Britain's crown jewels
Aug 28, 2018
Being a maverick almost stopped John McCain from becoming a public servant
Aug 27, 2018
Paul Jennings, the former slave who disputed a legend from history
Aug 24, 2018
What Operation Pied Piper taught us about family separations
Aug 23, 2018
Reagan's most historic speech took a few years to make an impact
Aug 22, 2018
A president’s lions and the emoluments clause
Aug 21, 2018
How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military
Aug 20, 2018
The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'
Aug 17, 2018
The congressman who shot a waiter
Aug 16, 2018
The time Truman met with Stalin and it went well
Aug 15, 2018
Meet Paul Manafort’s century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits
Aug 14, 2018
An aviation flop was a stamp collector’s dream and the U.S. Postal Service’s nightmare
Aug 13, 2018
How Mister Rogers talked to children and families about tragedy
Aug 10, 2018
The storied past of Alderson federal women’s prison
Aug 09, 2018
Rebels, turn out your dead!
Aug 08, 2018
The Saturday Night Massacre
Aug 07, 2018
The dark history of the pill
Aug 06, 2018
Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office
Aug 03, 2018
The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement
Aug 02, 2018
How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began
Aug 01, 2018
The first campus shooting
Jul 31, 2018
How God became part of the pledge
Jul 30, 2018
How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini
Jul 27, 2018
The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools
Jul 26, 2018
The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing
Jul 25, 2018
The rainless flood that destroyed a city
Jul 24, 2018
How a renovation made the Supreme Court a friendlier place
Jul 23, 2018
The Mountaintop
Jul 20, 2018
The most romantic day
Jul 19, 2018
The night America burned
Jul 18, 2018
All the presidents' ghosts
Jul 17, 2018
Don't mess with Harriet Tubman
Jul 16, 2018
The epic bender that launched America
Jul 13, 2018
A Supreme Court justice morally opposed abortion, but voted to legalize it
Jul 12, 2018
Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career
Jul 11, 2018
Oregon, America’s first and only state to begin as "whites-only"
Jul 10, 2018
How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady
Jul 09, 2018
The time America invaded Britain
Jul 06, 2018
The teen who tied a Virginia election
Jul 05, 2018
Thomas Jefferson's last letter
Jul 04, 2018
The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die
Jul 03, 2018
The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space
Jul 02, 2018
That time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
Jun 29, 2018
The femme fatale
Jun 28, 2018
The first congresswoman’s vote
Jun 27, 2018
How Hollywood’s first major blockbuster revived the KKK
Jun 26, 2018
The first pride parade
Jun 25, 2018
The oldest surviving banjo recording
Jun 22, 2018
The worst presidents
Jun 21, 2018
Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods
Jun 20, 2018
The first shark attacks
Jun 19, 2018
Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet
Jun 18, 2018
This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him
Jun 15, 2018
Thomas Jefferson’s iftar dinner and the long history of Ramadan at the White House
Jun 14, 2018
The biscuit tin
Jun 13, 2018
Before Loving, another interracial couple fought to marry
Jun 12, 2018
The Jedwabne massacre
Jun 11, 2018
Tennis's first goddess
Jun 08, 2018
The White House makeover
Jun 07, 2018
The Order of the Day
Jun 06, 2018
The “temporary insanity” legal defense started with an affair
Jun 05, 2018
History’s most fascinating misquote
Jun 04, 2018
Mourning Bobby Kennedy
Jun 01, 2018
The black power protest that shook the world
May 31, 2018
LBJ's political bombshell
May 30, 2018
One broadcast helped turn Americans against the Vietnam War
May 29, 2018
The performance that saved Johnny Cash's career
May 28, 2018
Publishers hated ‘A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections
May 25, 2018
When Ronald Reagan visited a family targeted by the KKK
May 24, 2018
The Nazi stone
May 23, 2018
Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party
May 22, 2018
The man who filmed JFK's assassination
May 21, 2018
Princess Diana's final hours
May 18, 2018
The enigmatic Prince Philip - separating fact from fiction
May 17, 2018
Wallis Simpson, the last American divorcee who married a British royal
May 16, 2018
The truth is out there
May 15, 2018
John Brown's prophecy
May 14, 2018
She spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it
May 11, 2018
The Sullivan brothers
May 10, 2018
Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy
May 09, 2018
To ban a "Mockingbird"
May 08, 2018
The original Alcoholics Anonymous book was auctioned for millions, but its author was never paid
May 07, 2018
May the Fourth be with you
May 04, 2018
The battle between Old Waddy and the press
May 03, 2018
Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?
May 02, 2018
Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant
May 01, 2018
How the Doomsday Clock came to be
Apr 30, 2018
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day was once just for daughters
Apr 27, 2018
These guys were college jocks - and then became Presidents of the United States
Apr 26, 2018
The only person Hitler loved
Apr 25, 2018
Philadelphia's plumbing revolution: wood pipes
Apr 24, 2018
Chillicothe, Missouri, the town that invented sliced bread
Apr 23, 2018
Barbara Bush’s remarkable commencement address
Apr 20, 2018
The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon
Apr 19, 2018
The history of epic North Korean insults
Apr 18, 2018
Hate the IRS? Blame Abraham Lincoln.
Apr 17, 2018
The mother who made George Washington miserable
Apr 16, 2018
Why Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history
Apr 13, 2018
A letter from home
Apr 12, 2018
Was Mary Todd Lincoln a leaker?
Apr 11, 2018
Winifred Stanley, a forgotten equal pay pioneer
Apr 10, 2018
The invention of sarin
Apr 09, 2018
The spy plane
Apr 06, 2018
The toughest job in politics
Apr 05, 2018
The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
Apr 04, 2018
The Mountaintop
Apr 03, 2018
The books the presidents read
Apr 02, 2018
Egg Roll
Mar 30, 2018
The girl who struck out Babe Ruth
Mar 29, 2018
The first daughters
Mar 28, 2018
Meet the Press
Mar 27, 2018
The man who won World War II
Mar 26, 2018
The children's crusade
Mar 23, 2018
The forbidden question
Mar 22, 2018
The crooked picture
Mar 21, 2018
Lawn wars
Mar 20, 2018
Dr. Spock
Mar 19, 2018
Then they came for me
Mar 16, 2018
The godfather of bracketology
Mar 15, 2018
The Limping Lady
Mar 14, 2018
The first female marine
Mar 13, 2018
The trials and tribulations of being a cat
Mar 12, 2018
Fall back, spring forward
Mar 09, 2018
The glass ceiling
Mar 08, 2018
How are you, Grandmama?
Mar 07, 2018
The night America burned
Mar 06, 2018
And the winner is...
Mar 05, 2018
Special delivery!
Mar 02, 2018
The woman behind Lisa Ben
Mar 01, 2018
The houses built by slaves
Feb 28, 2018
How the NRA began
Feb 27, 2018
The rise of supermarkets
Feb 26, 2018
The Green Book
Feb 23, 2018
The ice queen
Feb 22, 2018
Mrs. Graham
Feb 21, 2018
The electric rivalry
Feb 20, 2018
All the president's ghosts
Feb 19, 2018
Don't mess with Harriet Tubman
Feb 16, 2018
When Olympic silver beats gold
Feb 15, 2018
The most romantic day
Feb 14, 2018
The best birthday card ever
Feb 13, 2018
What hath God wrought?
Feb 12, 2018
Introducing 'Retropod'
Feb 07, 2018