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The Radio Priest: Power, Prejudice, and a Microphone in Royal Oak.
Season 7 Episode 35
How did a parish priest in Royal Oak, Michigan, become one of America's most powerful voices—and what happened when that familiar voice began spreadi…
1 day, 19 hours ago
760 Votes Short: Michigan Women’s Fight for the Ballot
Season 7 Episode 34
Michigan women spent decades pressing for a voice at the ballot box. In 1912, a state suffrage amendment failed by just 760 votes. This episode follo…
1 week, 1 day ago
Detroit on Trial: Diego Rivera's Murals That Shocked a City
Season 7 Episode 33
Detroit, 1933. A world-famous artist. An automobile empire. Twenty-seven murals that would ignite one of the city's fiercest cultural controversies.
W…
1 week, 1 day ago
Whitmore Lake's Forgotten Glory Days: Hotels, Trains and Summer Escapes.
Season 7 Episode 32
Whitmore Lake: The Resort Town That Harvested Ice
In the early 1900s, Whitmore Lake, Michigan, was a thriving summer destination where passenger train…
1 week, 4 days ago
Mackinac Bridge: The Long Fight to Build the Mighty Mac
Season 7 Episode 31
Before the Mackinac Bridge became Michigan’s most recognizable crossing, it was a proposal that repeatedly stalled. Engineers drew plans. Supporters …
1 week, 4 days ago
Michigan State Police: From Wartime Force to Highway Patrol 1917
Season 7 Episode 30
A car heads north from Toledo before dawn. Michigan State Troopers signal its driver to stop. Moments later, it strikes a log pulled across the highw…
1 week, 4 days ago
The Doctor, the House and the Mob: The Ossian Sweet Trial
Season 7 Episode 29
In September 1925, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family into a brick house at 2905 Garland in a white Detroit neighborhood. The next evening, a crowd ga…
2 weeks ago
The Patriot War: Michigan’s Secret Border Network
Season 7 Episode 28
In 1837 and 1838, Michigan’s border towns became a key part of the Patriot War. Secret Hunters’ Lodges recruited supporters in Detroit, Port Huron, a…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Building the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel: Nine Steel Tubes Beneath the River 1928-1930
Season 7 Episode 27
From 1928 to 1930, crews built a highway tunnel beneath the Detroit River using steel, concrete, dredging, and compressed-air excavation. One 500-ton…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Anna Bissell and the Carpet Sweeper That Built a Michigan Company
Season 7 Episode 26
Before Bissell became a household name, Anna Sutherland Bissell was selling carpet sweepers store by store in Grand Rapids. When fire destroyed the c…
3 weeks ago