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Love a good, juicy story that goes beyond what we already know? We're talking scandalous presidential family members, a mass murder at a world-famous architect's home, stolen inventions, nude athletes at the first Olympics, compulsive liars, the arrival of the bikini, and so much more. History fanatic Patty Steele tells you the inside backstories you didn’t know you needed to know.
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The Backstory: Meeting your children…from a past life
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May 17, 2024 |
The Backstory: What in the heck did I just say?!?!
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May 14, 2024 |
The Backstory: Paradise lost
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May 10, 2024 |
The Backstory: The #%$@ history of cursing
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May 07, 2024 |
The Backstory: The most powerful and hated man in the world
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May 03, 2024 |
The Backstory: When famous folks are crummy parents
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Apr 30, 2024 |
The Backstory: The dark side of Hollywood’s bright lights
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Apr 26, 2024 |
The Backstory: The first temporary insanity defense
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Apr 23, 2024 |
The Backstory: From Reefer Madness to wellness trend
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Apr 19, 2024 |
The Backstory: Mom's death bed confession about hijacker D. B. Cooper
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Apr 16, 2024 |
The Backstory: The evolution of TV
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Apr 09, 2024 |
The Backstory: Lindbergh: a flawed hero and notorious murder
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Apr 05, 2024 |
The Backstory: Dogs: from predator to fur baby in 20,000 years (Replay)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
The Backstory: History’s craziest trends
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Mar 26, 2024 |
The Backstory: Abe Lincoln, battered husband
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Mar 22, 2024 |
The Backstory: The sinister death of movie star Natalie Wood
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Mar 19, 2024 |
The Backstory: The 1893 World’s Fair murder castle
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Mar 15, 2024 |
The Backstory: Finding Amelia Earhart…maybe
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Mar 12, 2024 |
The Backstory: Female spies: fascinating secret heroes
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Mar 08, 2024 |
The Backstory: Illicit sex in old Hollywood
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Mar 05, 2024 |
The Backstory: The unelected female president
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Mar 01, 2024 |
The Backstory: Crazy stuff we eat, from bugs to beaver tails
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Feb 27, 2024 |
The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
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Feb 23, 2024 |
The Backstory: From slave to congressman
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Feb 20, 2024 |
The Backstory: Maniacs and mysticism
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Feb 16, 2024 |
The Backstory: Romance: Roses, chocolates, and bloody animal skins
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Feb 13, 2024 |
The Backstory: An unbelievable touchdown in the upper deck
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Feb 09, 2024 |
The Backstory: From freedom fighter to tribal genocide
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Feb 06, 2024 |
The Backstory: Immortality: young blood and monkey testicles
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Feb 02, 2024 |
The Backstory: Cold War condoms and undercover kitties
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Jan 30, 2024 |
The Backstory: Radio: A voice in the dark
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Jan 26, 2024 |
The Backstory: Mafia murder in mid-century Las Vegas
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Jan 23, 2024 |
The Backstory: The Big Exit
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Jan 19, 2024 |
The Backstory: Surviving a 35,000-foot free fall
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Jan 16, 2024 |
The Backstory: The unexplained blast that shook the world
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Jan 12, 2024 |
The Backstory: The upside of having the blues
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Jan 09, 2024 |
The Backstory: Gruesome mementos of the wild west
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Jan 05, 2024 |
The Backstory: Suffering for beauty
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Jan 02, 2024 |
The Backstory: How did Christmas turn into trees and egg nog?
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Dec 22, 2023 |
The Backstory: Hitler's obsession with beauty
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Dec 19, 2023 |
The Backstory: Let’s get in bed
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Dec 15, 2023 |
The Backstory: The last thing they saw
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Dec 12, 2023 |
The Backstory: Where did all the dinosaurs go?
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Dec 08, 2023 |
The Backstory: The concealed Kennedy
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Dec 05, 2023 |
The Backstory: He did WHAT while President?!
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Dec 01, 2023 |
The Backstory: The First Female Serial Killer?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
Celebrities and their world-changing inventions
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Nov 24, 2023 |
Inventing Thanksgiving
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Nov 21, 2023 |
Napoleon’s complicated sex life
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Nov 17, 2023 |
ADHD…from Mozart to Musk
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Nov 14, 2023 |
The unbelievable life of Leonardo da Vinci
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Nov 10, 2023 |
Sex and Corn Flakes
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Nov 07, 2023 |
Three decades lost in the South Pacific
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Nov 03, 2023 |
From murderer to media darling...and back again
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Oct 31, 2023 |
New York’s secret subway…blown up
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Oct 27, 2023 |
The bloody Halloween origin story
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Oct 24, 2023 |
The thrill of horror
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Was Jack the Ripper a woman?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
A tale of the last pardoned witch
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Oct 13, 2023 |
Can you put a pope’s corpse on trial?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
Marie Antoinette: her worst moments (other than getting her head chopped off)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb
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Oct 03, 2023 |
A Hollywood insider nailed as a compulsive liar
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Sep 29, 2023 |
Charlie Manson and Good Vibrations
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Sep 26, 2023 |
Dogs: from predator to fur baby in 20,000 years
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Sep 22, 2023 |
Dying for a drink?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
The awful backstage truth about The Wizard of Oz
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Sep 15, 2023 |
ETs? Time travelers? Trying to explain the unexplained
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Sep 12, 2023 |
Murder on the Madison Square Garden rooftop
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Sep 08, 2023 |
How one woman survived the Titanic and 2 more shipwrecks
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Sep 05, 2023 |
Did Ben Franklin discover electricity? Nope!
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Sep 01, 2023 |
Smoky skies: the year without a summer
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Aug 29, 2023 |
The scandalous life of a presidential wild child
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Aug 25, 2023 |
How we slept before the light bulb
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Aug 22, 2023 |
Iconic monuments, from reviled to revered
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Aug 18, 2023 |
The stolen invention that changed the world
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Aug 15, 2023 |
Nude olympics and (literal) sweat equity
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Aug 11, 2023 |
Mass murder at the home of an icon of tranquility
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Aug 08, 2023 |
From hiding women's bodies at the beach to the thong...in 100 years
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Aug 04, 2023 |
Who was sitting with Abe Lincoln when he was shot?
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Aug 01, 2023 |
Introducing: The Backstory with Patty Steele
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Jul 24, 2023 |