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🧠Freud & Jung, The Original Dream Team
Talking cures, death wishes, and the fraught origins of modern psychology.
⚡Tesla Electrifies the World
Nikola Tesla lit up Philadelphia, shooting sparks and lighting bulbs, offering a glimpse of the powered world to come.
🩺When America Almost Had Universal Healthcare
How universal healthcare was nearly enacted under FDR, only to face fierce opposition from the AMA.
🤔Could the Challenger Disaster Have Been Prevented?
On a freezing Florida morning, NASA launches Challenger despite engineer warnings. How did it happen, and what happened in the aftermath?
💥How to Stop an Avalanche? Blow Up a Mountain
Alta, Utah launches its first ski lift in 1939, sparking a need for extreme measures—including explosives—to control deadly avalanches.
🇨🇺A New Year, A New Cuba
Step into Batista's final New Year's party in 1958 Havana. Feel the anxiety as revolution brews and a new Cuba is about to dawn.
👑Alexander the Great Finds His Destiny
How the 24-year-old king shifted from conqueror to ruler.
🌋The Last Regular Day in Pompeii
People just going about their lives, about to get buried in ash.
💥An American Mutiny in WWII
Cue a young Thurgood Marshall ...
🎈Cleveland Balloonfest ’86
Launching 1.5 million balloons ... what could go wrong?
🏞️John Muir's Quest to Save the Great Outdoors
The Sierra sunrise that sparked John Muir's quest.
🎤Ma Rainey's Mic Drop
Blues legend Ma Rainey turns scandal into song, recording her defiant "Prove It On Me Blues" in 1928 after rumors swirl about a raided party.
👑The Coronation of King Charles III
The nearly 1,000 years of tradition behind Britain's first crowning in 70 years.
🦕The Bone Wars
A bitter rivalry that unearthed dinosaurs and ignited a national obsession.
⛓️The Church Kidnaps Edgardo Mortara
A fascinating, tragic tale.
🕊️Bayard Rustin Marches Free
Pacifist Bayard Rustin marches free this week in 1946. Fresh from prison, his path leads to Gandhi and mentoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
🌟Anna May Wong Steps into the Spotlight
Explore the glamorous yet singular journey of Anna May Wong, Hollywood's first Chinese American movie star to shine globally.
🗳️Reconstruction IV - Voting Rights At Last
A century after the 15th Amendment, the Civil Rights movement challenges Congress to finally deliver on the promise of voting rights for all Americans.
✊🏾Reconstruction III - W.E.B. Du Bois' Black Reconstruction
Uncover W.E.B. Du Bois' revolutionary 1935 critique, *Black Reconstruction*, which reframed the post-Civil War era and challenged biased histories.
⚖️Reconstruction I - Secession on Trial
Jefferson Davis's capture ignites a crucial question — How do you put secession itself on trial?
🗺️Dividing the Desert
A ceremonial pickaxe blow launches the audacious project to divide the desert and link two seas via the Suez Canal.
⚖️Ethel Rosenberg's Day in Court
Courtroom drama as Ethel Rosenberg faces espionage charges, awaiting a verdict that seals her and her husband's fate.
⚖️A Serial Killer Helps Abolish the Death Penalty
1950s London serial killer John Christie unexpectedly played a role in ending capital punishment in Britain.
✊Claudette Colvin Didn't Give Up Her Seat
The 15-year-old arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks' famous act.
⚖️Hitler Stands Trial
Hitler faced treason charges in a Munich courtroom in 1924 after a near-successful coup.
⚾️Black Baseball Goes Pro
On Feb 13, 1920, Rube Foster led the charge against exclusion, gathering owners to forge a professional league exclusively for Black baseball players.
🚫The Great Comic Book Scare
Explore the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s, as figures like Fredric Wertham clash over whether comics truly corrupt America's youth.
😰How Lincoln Almost Lost it All
Union hopes hang on a risky bridge at Fredericksburg in December 1862. Discover how this desperate battle nearly costs Lincoln everything.
🤔Thanksgiving Reconsidered
Reconsider Thanksgiving's history by exploring the Wampanoag story and a crucial 1970 protest challenging the traditional narrative.
🎈Defying Gravity and Monarchy
Defy gravity in 1783 Paris! Relive the tension and triumph of the first human hot air balloon flight, featured on The History Channel's podcast.
💣Remember, Remember the 5th of November
Unravel the mystery of the anonymous tip that foiled the Gunpowder Plot. Revisit the tense search beneath Parliament on November 4th, 1605.
🌍The Sky is Falling
Learn about the day Mario Molina won the Nobel Prize for proving the sky *was* falling, detailed in a fact-checked History Channel podcast episode.
🙏The Strangest Gathering of Men
Explore the 1893 Parliament of World Religions where a Hindu monk holds a Chicago audience spellbound. A truly strange, historic gathering.
🐻The True Winnie-the-Pooh
Discover the true WWI story behind Winnie-the-Pooh! Learn how a real Canadian bear cub named Winnie inspired A.A. Milne's beloved character.
🧐The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
The story begins with a discarded doorknob...
🏴Pop Music Pirates
Pirate ships blast pop music across 1960s England from the high seas. Explore this rebellious radio history chapter, featured by The History Channel.
🌳The Road Less Traveled
Journey back to August 1915 as Robert Frost publishes "The Road Not Taken," forever changing American poetry with its famous diverging roads.
🥇Jesse Owens Takes Germany
Jesse Owens challenges Hitler's Nazi regime at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, running into history and defying racial hatred on the world stage.
🧐Fiddling With the Truth
Dive into the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD. Discover the truth behind the enduring myth of Emperor Nero fiddling as his city burned.
🔍The Hunt for Hieroglyphs
Join the hunt for hieroglyphs! Discover how a stone found by French soldiers in 1799 became the key to unlocking ancient Egypt's secrets.
🏳Two Fathers, One Fight
Two fathers challenge norms and win adoption rights for gay couples, celebrating their love with a groundbreaking Father’s Day wedding in 1998.
🏛️Watergate from the Inside
Step inside the Watergate break-in. Explore why Nixon's team thought they could succeed in this HISTORY podcast episode on the infamous scandal.
🧙Witches Among Us
Witness the grim 1692 execution of Bridget Bishop in Salem. Discover the chilling history behind the witch trials via the linked, fact-checked podcast.
🏚️The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street
The history of Tulsa's thriving Black Wall Street and the devastating 1921 race massacre that violently destroyed this community.
Sojourner's Truth
In 1851 Akron, Sojourner Truth delivers a powerful speech at the Women's Rights Convention, demanding true inclusion for *all* women.
🔍Not My Fingerprint
A single fingerprint nearly convicts an innocent man. HISTORY This Week revisits Brandon Mayfield's wrongful arrest for the Madrid train bombings.
🚂The Chinese Immigrants Who Built America
The heroes of the completion of the transcontinental railroad.
🥀Mother's Day Mayhem
Discover the surprising story of Mother's Day founder Anna Jarvis. See how her promise to honor her mother sparked a lifelong battle against the holiday itself.
✊Fighting for 504
Uncover the longest non-violent occupation of a US federal building, where disability activists demanded enforcement of Section 504 civil rights in 1977.
💵Killing the Gold Standard
It's 1933. FDR gathers advisors late at night. He's about to announce a plan that kills the gold standard and alters US economic history.