Podcast Episodes

The Gilbert Baker Mural

Gilbert Baker’s pride flag design is now a worldwide symbol for LGBT freedom and liberation. Now, his former stomping grounds remember his efforts wi…

1 year, 8 months ago

Jadeite Cabbage (Classic)

This tiny stone cabbage has a big backstory stretching from the rich, treasure-laden halls of Beijing’s Forbidden City...through a harrowing wartime …

1 year, 9 months ago

Roop Kund

Author Doug Preston brings us back into the world of his latest book, The Lost Tomb, with a story of a remote lake in the Himalayas where hundreds of…

1 year, 9 months ago

The Glove Museum

This museum in New York is a recreated 19th century glove making workshop complete with sizing tools, cutting blocks, and irons. It’s also  part stud…

1 year, 9 months ago

Grizzly Adams: America’s Mythic Mountain Man

In the 1850s, one anonymous Massachusetts shoemaker became a national celebrity – all by exhibiting his “family” of captured grizzly bears.

1 year, 9 months ago

In The Heart Of NYC, A Refuge For Birds

A hospital and rehab center for birds in Manhattan started with a woman who just wanted to do all she could to help an injured goose. Decades later, …

1 year, 9 months ago

The Start of a Language

Places editors Michelle Cassidy and Jonathan Carey bring us stories about two specific languages that were created by people who gave us a glimpse in…

1 year, 9 months ago

Nerding Out on Ancient Queens with Torri Yates-Orr

History buff Torri Yates-Orr gives us the tea on Nefertiti, Cleopatra, and Amanirenas – and explains why we often don’t hear their full stories in hi…

1 year, 9 months ago

For Keeps Books (Classic)

In Atlanta, on this historic Auburn Avenue, sits a small bookstore and reading room that’s been called “an interactive art museum of Black Thought” 

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1 year, 9 months ago

The Last Baldwin House

James Baldwin’s former home in the South of France is a site that many visit hoping to feel the essence of the great African-American writer. But sho…

1 year, 9 months ago