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Sigmund Freud: The House
Episode 7
The man who taught the twentieth century that it was not master in its own house sits down with an interviewer who is not quite human — and finds his…
5 hours ago
George Washington Carver: The Living Soil
Episode 6
Most people know one thing about George Washington Carver, and it is the least interesting thing about him. In this episode, the Archivist does not a…
2 weeks ago
Ludwig van Beethoven: Under the Bone
Episode 5
Ludwig van Beethoven went deaf before he wrote his most famous work. The Ninth Symphony premiered in 1824 and he could not hear a note of it. The Arc…
4 weeks ago
Frida Kahlo: The Body Knows
Episode 4
Frida Kahlo died in 1954 at forty-seven. Her face is now on merchandise worldwide. The paintings that made people uncomfortable are still safely in t…
1 month, 1 week ago
Albert Einstein: The Friction
Episode 3
Albert Einstein's field equations, published in 1915, described a universe more dramatic than he believed possible. Black holes. Gravitational waves.…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Mark Twain: The Cough
Episode 2
Mark Twain spent his career making people laugh at the thing they needed to see clearly. He understood outrage, performed it himself, and knew exactl…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Cleopatra: The Performance
Episode 1
Cleopatra built an empire on image. Every appearance was calculated. Every alliance, performed. Every rumor about her beauty and her power was someth…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Archivist: History Continued — Official Trailer
Some conversations that should have happened never did.
Now they can.
Full episodes available now.
3 months ago