A Twist of History
Episodes
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marie Antoinette’s world renowned extravagance made her an icon and then an example as the Queen of France, but her beheading, and the French Revolu...
The Man Who Saved the World
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis as a 13-day war of nerves between the White House and the Kremlin. But the most critical moment of the co...
Buying the Presidency
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Money and politics have always been intertwined in America, but before the days of Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, there was Rockerfeller, Carnegie and Mo...
The Tornado that Saved DC
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the War of 1812, Washington DC was in the process of being destroyed by the British Army, until they came up against an even more powerful forc...
The Khan Legacy
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before the Mongol Empire dominated the Asian Continent, there was no empire to speak of, only nomadic tribes in perpetual battle. That is, until a pre...
The Story of Bananas is Bananas
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peeling a banana uncovers much more than a tasty fruit, it reveals a fraught history riddled with violent coups, espionage, political assassinations a...
The Star Who Invented the Future
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A goal of helping to fight against the Nazis during World War II leads a Hollywood star, known as the "most beautiful woman in the world," to invent t...
The Battle of Actium
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The assassination of Julius Caesar left an enormous power vacuum in Rome, thrusting his successors into an epic, intercontinental battle for control o...
Shotgun Science
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did modern medicine become modern? It was thanks, in part, to a renegade doctor who pushed the boundaries of experimentation - and ethics. And it ...
A Sweet Taste of America
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
World War I was known as the War to End All Wars due to its scale and loss of life. At the height of the fighting, when American soldiers on the front...
The Gunpowder Plot
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1605, a plot to kill the King of England was underway, and the man who attempted it, along with his name, would go down in infamy.See Privacy Polic...
The Titanic Question
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if a seemingly unremarkable choice could have prevented one of the most infamous disasters of all time?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pr...
The Hitler Intervention
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the devastation that followed in his wake was hardly inevitable. In fact, if not for a single split-second decision b...
Fast Cars and Bootleggers
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mobsters, shootouts, and petal-to-the-metal police chases. This is prohibition-era America – a time when a group of adrenaline-fueled outlaws and th...
Inside The Madhouse
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During the Gilded Age in New York City, the horrors of mental health care are exposed in explosive fashion, forever changing the way stories are uncov...
How the Metric System Was Stolen
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do Americans measure things in inches and pounds while the rest of the world uses centimeters and kilograms? The answer becomes clear when George ...
The Shakespeare Riot
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New York City in the mid 1800s was run by violent gangs, corrupt politicians, and grifting opportunists who operated with no fear of punishment. It wa...
The Birth of Hollywood
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If not for inventor Thomas Edison's iron grip over the nascent film industry, and a few defiant trailblazers, movies as we know them might have never ...
Robert E Lee's Lost Orders
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Battle of Antietam during the American Civil War remains the bloodiest day in American history. That day, and the future of the United States, cou...
How Murder Went Viral
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1910, a brutal murder in London sparks a transatlantic manhunt and the rise of a cultural obsession.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/p...
Introducing: A Twist of History
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The course of history never follows a straight line. These are the epic stories that have shaped the world we now live in. From Ballen Studios, j...