Evolution on Trial | Live and Let Live | 4
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Scopes ""Monkey"" Trial was set against the backdrop of the roaring twenties, a time of both cul...
Listen Now: Lawless Planet
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous he...
History Daily: Henry VIII’s Fifth Wedding
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
July 28, 1540. King Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, 32 years his jun...
Evolution on Trial | Duel to the Death | 3
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On July 20, 1925, the trial of John Scopes continued in the stifling heat of the overcrowded county ...
Evolution on Trial | Monkeytown | 2
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the sweltering morning of July 10, 1925, 200 newspaper reporters, newsreel film producers, and ra...
Listen Now: Flesh and Code
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Travis never thought he’d meet someone like Lily Rose. She was kind, passionate, beautiful. The wo...
History Daily: The Lincoln Hospital Takeover
14 Jul 2025
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July 14, 1970. A group of Puerto Rican activists stage an occupation demanding better health care at...
Evolution on Trial | A Clash of Giants | 1
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1925, the famous politician and presidential contender William Jennings Bryan returned to the lim...
Typhoid Mary | Cook, Carrier, Captive | 3
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1906, a New York health department investigation into an outbreak of typhoid fever led to the dis...
Typhoid Mary | Destroying Angel | 2
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After spending two years in forced isolation on a remote island in the East River, Mary Mallon fough...
Listen Now: Liberty Lost
Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, whe...
Typhoid Mary | An Invisible Menace | 1
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the fall of 1906, a mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever struck a wealthy New York family vacatio...
History Daily: The First Woman In Space
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
June 16, 1963. After months of rigorous training, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the ...
The Progressive Era | In the Arena | 6
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As president, Theodore Roosevelt pursued a progressive agenda. He worked to break up the monopolies ...
The Progressive Era | Wilson's War on Tariffs | 5
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1913, Woodrow Wilson entered the White House, ready to fulfill his promise of a “New Freedom.”...
Wondery Presents: How to Survive Against the Odds
Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:00:00 -0000
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Inspired by Wondery’s hit podcast Against the Odds—learn how to survive whatever nature can thro...
History Daily: The Killing of Benno Ohnesorg
02 Jun 2025
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June 2, 1967. Benno Ohnesorg, a West German student, is killed by a police officer while attending a...
The Progressive Era | A Bruising Fight | 4
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1909, William Howard Taft entered the White House, pledging to preserve and expand the Progressiv...
The Progressive Era | The Crisis | 3
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt discharged 167 soldiers of the all-Black 25th Infantry station...
History Daily: England Becomes a Republic
19 May 2025
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May 19, 1649. After the English Civil War, an Act of Parliament makes England a Republic.You can lis...
The Progressive Era | The Shame of Cities | 2
14 May 2025
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In the early 1900s, a new generation of crusading writers and journalists captured the nation’s at...
Listen Now: Oh What A Time...
Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000
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It’s time to embark on a journey through history with "Oh What A Time…" a comedy history podcast...
The Progressive Era | Power to the People | 1
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1890s, Theodore Roosevelt emerged as a hero of the Spanish-American War and embarked on ...
History Daily: The Battle of Puebla on Cinco de Mayo
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
May 5, 1862. Following the French invasion of Mexico, Mexican soldiers succeed in defending the town...
The Carter Years | 444 Days | 4
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On November 4th, 1979, Iranian students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran intending to stage a shor...
Listen Now: Death County, PA
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0000
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Lamont Jones leaves Dauphin County Prison for the last time, a free man ready to move on with his li...
The Carter Years | Homecoming | 3
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his final year in office, President Jimmy Carter was forced to navigate crisis after crisis, as A...
History Daily: The Loch Ness Photograph
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
April 21, 1934. The Daily Mail publishes an alleged photo of the Loch Ness Monster, sparking an inte...
The Carter Years | Crisis of Confidence | 2
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1979, after two years in office, President Jimmy Carter faced a series of crushing challenges: a ...
Introducing: Law & Crime’s LUIGI
Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0000
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When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless ...
The Carter Years | "Jimmy Who?" | 1
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1976, as America struggled to recover from the twin traumas of the Watergate scandal and the war ...
History Daily: The Execution of Dick Turpin
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
April 7, 1739. In York, England, the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged for stealing horses....
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | The 19th Amendment | 5
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As America entered World War I, the suffrage movement split into a two-pronged attack. Alice Paul an...
Listen Now: Don’t Cross Kat
Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0000
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Kat Torres has the insta-perfect life. She is rich, gorgeous and not ashamed to share it. Her posts ...
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Silent Sentinels | 4
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1913, thousands of suffrage activists converged on Washington, D.C. for a new form of prote...
History Daily: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
March 24, 1603. After a reign of 44 years, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, bringing the Tudor dyn...
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Passing the Torch | 3
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the 20th century dawned, a new generation of women rose to take control of the suffrage cause. Th...
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | The Trial of Susan B. Anthony | 2
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Election Day 1872, Susan B. Anthony walked into a polling place in Rochester, New York and boldly...
Listen Now: Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky
Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:00:00 -0000
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Monica Lewinsky has been a major reference in pop culture since she was 24 years old when a scandal ...
History Daily: Alexander Graham Bell Makes the First Telephone Call
10 Mar 2025
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March 10, 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call in history,...
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Created Equal | 1
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On July 19th, 1848, 300 female and male delegates gathered in a church in Seneca Falls, New York for...
Buffalo Soldiers | Suffering in Silence | 4
Wed, 26 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Between 1870 and 1899, only twelve Black cadets were admitted to the US military academy at West Poi...
Buffalo Soldiers | Suffering in Silence | 4
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1870 and 1899, only twelve Black cadets were admitted to the US military academy at West Poi...
Listen Now: Scam Factory
Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:00:00 -0000
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You know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere? They could b...
History Daily: The Battle of Karnal
Mon, 24 Feb
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February 24, 1739. The Persian leader Nader Shah wins a decisive victory in India at the Battle of K...
History Daily: The Battle of Karnal
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
February 24, 1739. The Persian leader Nader Shah wins a decisive victory in India at the Battle of K...
Buffalo Soldiers | The Last to Leave | 3
Wed, 19 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On an April morning in 1880, West Point cadet Johnson Chestnut Whittaker failed to appear at 6 a.m. ...
Buffalo Soldiers | The Last to Leave | 3
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On an April morning in 1880, West Point cadet Johnson Chestnut Whittaker failed to appear at 6 a.m. ...
Introducing: Blood Vines
Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:30:00 -0000
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Get ready for a whole new vintage of true crime podcast with Blood Vines, available exclusively on W...
Buffalo Soldiers | Cadets of Courage | 2
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1870, James Webster Smith arrived in West Point, New York, in the hopes of becoming the first...
History Daily: David Bowie Becomes Ziggy Stardust
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
February 10, 1972. When his music career begins to stagnate, David Bowie reinvents himself with an a...
Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1
Wed, 05 Feb
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the spring of 1865, with the Civil War finally over, American lawmakers began to debate whether B...
Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the spring of 1865, with the Civil War finally over, American lawmakers began to debate whether B...
The Irish Famine Relief Mission | Ship of Hope | 1
Wed, 29 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the winter of 1846, Irish immigrants in America began to hear troubling news from their home coun...
The Irish Famine Relief Mission | Ship of Hope | 1
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the winter of 1846, Irish immigrants in America began to hear troubling news from their home coun...
Listen Now: We Came to the Forest
Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0000
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Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility p...
History Daily: The End of the Siege of Leningrad
Mon, 27 Jan
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January 27, 1944. Soviet forces defeat the German army outside Leningrad, ending an 872-day siege.Yo...
History Daily: The End of the Siege of Leningrad
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
January 27, 1944. Soviet forces defeat the German army outside Leningrad, ending an 872-day siege.Yo...
The Wright Brothers | Controlling the Skies | 4
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903, other air enth...
The Wright Brothers | Coming Down to Earth | 3
Wed, 15 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In the summer of 1908, Wilbur Wright amazed crowds in France with his aerobatic flying demonstration...
The Wright Brothers | Coming Down to Earth | 3
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1908, Wilbur Wright amazed crowds in France with his aerobatic flying demonstration...
History Daily: The Sole Survivor of the Retreat from Kabul
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
January 13, 1842. William Brydon is the last man standing after a disastrous British army retreat du...
The Wright Brothers | Fliers or Liars | 2
Wed, 08 Jan
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
By 1903, inventors and adventurers in Britain and France were launching their own experimental aircr...
The Wright Brothers | Fliers or Liars | 2
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By 1903, inventors and adventurers in Britain and France were launching their own experimental aircr...
The Wright Brothers | The Art of the Bird | 1
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the late-1890s, two brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, became obsessed with what Wilb...
History Daily: Winston Churchill’s Famous “Some Chicken” Speech
Mon, 30 Dec
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
December 30, 1941. In a rousing speech to the Canadian Parliament, British Prime Minister Winston Ch...
History Daily: Winston Churchill’s Famous “Some Chicken” Speech
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
December 30, 1941. In a rousing speech to the Canadian Parliament, British Prime Minister Winston Ch...
Listen Now - History That Doesn't Suck: America Enters WWI
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
History That Doesn't' Suck is a seriously researched survey of American history told through enterta...
Encore: Boston Molasses Disaster | A Deadly Deluge | 1
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On January 15, 1919 a giant storage tank holding more than two million gallons of molasses collapsed...
Transcontinental Railroad | The Iron Road | 5
Wed, 18 Dec
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Chinese laborers did much of the toughest work building the Central Pacific Railroad. That included ...
Transcontinental Railroad | The Iron Road | 5
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese laborers did much of the toughest work building the Central Pacific Railroad. That included ...
History Daily: Rugby Union’s “Match of the Century”
Mon, 16 Dec
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
December 16, 1905. Rugby Union’s "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and the undefeated...
History Daily: Rugby Union’s “Match of the Century”
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
December 16, 1905. Rugby Union’s "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and the undefeated...
FDR & Churchill: A Friendship For the Ages with History Hit's Dan Snow | 1
Wed, 11 Dec
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Great Britain and the United States have always enjoyed a special bond, and nowhere has that been mo...
FDR & Churchill: A Friendship For the Ages with History Hit's Dan Snow | 1
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Great Britain and the United States have always enjoyed a special bond, and nowhere has that been mo...
Listen Now - Hollywood & Crime: The Cotton Club Murder
Mon, 09 Dec
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On June 10th, 1983, the decomposing body of a well-dressed man was found in a desolate canyon near L...
Transcontinental Railroad | The Golden Spike | 4
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In January 1869, leaders of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met in Washington, D.C. to discuss...
Transcontinental Railroad | Hell on Wheels | 3
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In early 1866, Central Pacific workers were stalled in California, facing the monumental task of bla...
Listen Now - REDACTED: Declassified Mysteries with Luke Lamana
Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, are hidden stories and buried ...
Transcontinental Railroad | Dancing with a Whirlwind | 2
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1863, an unscrupulous businessman named Thomas Durant gained control of the Union P...
History Daily: Introducing Mickey Mouse
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
November 18, 1928. Mickey Mouse makes his big screen debut in Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie.You c...
Transcontinental Railroad | Work of Giants | 1
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In October 1860, railroad engineer Theodore Judah looked out across California’s Sierra Nevada ran...
Listen Now: American Criminal
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0000
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
The true crime history podcast American Criminal takes you inside the minds of our most no...
Jamestown | Chief Opechancanough | 5
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many people are familiar with Powhatan, the Paramount Chief who ruled over a vast network of more th...
Jamestown | The Great Reforms | 4
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In April 1613, years of bloody warfare culminated in the kidnapping of the paramount chief Powhatan’...
Jamestown | The Starving Time | 3
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1609, a hurricane struck a large English fleet bound for Virginia on a rescue missi...
Jamestown | A Hell of Darkness | 2
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In January 1608, fire blazed through the English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. Nearly every bui...
History Daily: Breaking the Sound Barrier
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
October 14, 1947. US Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the ...
Jamestown | Land of Milk and Honey | 1
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In December 1606, three ships carrying 104 settlers left England and set sail for Virginia’s Chesa...
The Titanic | The Obsession | 4
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, the ocean liner's fame only continued to grow. Today, Lindsay is...
History Daily: Suleiman the Magnificent
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
September 30, 1520. Suleiman the Magnificent becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and sets his sigh...
The Titanic | Orphans of the Deep | 3
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On April 16, 1912, shocked survivors of the Titanic made their way to New York aboard the rescue shi...
The Titanic | She's Doomed | 2
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just past midnight on April 15th, 1912, only 20 minutes after striking an iceberg, the Titanic began...
History Daily: The Wall Street Bombing
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
September 16, 1920. A horse-drawn wagon explodes in the middle of New York’s financial district, k...
The Titanic | Unsinkable | 1
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the RMS Titanic launched in April of 1912, it was the pinnacle of luxury and the largest vessel...
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Ricochet | 5
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1981, a gunman fired six shots at Ronald Reagan after the president gave a speech at a Washington...
History Daily: The Great Fire of London Begins
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
September 2nd 1666: the Great Fire of London begins in a bakery on Pudding Lane, before quickly spre...
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Three Shots in Dallas | 4
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo thro...
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Anarchist at the Exposition | 3
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New Yo...
History Daily: A Failed Coup in Moscow
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Description: August 19, 1991. A group of Communist Party hardliners attempt to save the collapsing S...