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Jefferson’s Trade War Shuts Down America
Season 7 Episode 8
April 18, 1806. In his study, President Thomas Jefferson signs a law that doesn’t look like an act of war. It bans imports. Leather. Silk. Glass. Pla…
10 hours ago
A Good, Not Great Lake (from Points North)
Season 7
This episode comes from Points North, a podcast about the land, water, and inhabitants of the Great Lakes. You can listen to Points North wherever yo…
4 days, 10 hours ago
Oil Fields, Bags of Cash, a Presidency Exposed
Season 7 Episode 7
April 7, 1922. A cabinet secretary signs a secret deal and locks it in his desk.
The land in question holds one of the largest untapped oil reserves …
1 week ago
William Parker’s War on Slave Catchers
Season 7 Episode 6
April 3, 1851. A man who escaped slavery is grabbed off the streets of Boston and thrown into a carriage. He fights back, shouting to the crowd, but …
2 weeks ago
The First Robot
Season 7 Episode 5
March 29th, 1923. A new play opens in Berlin, and quietly changes the future. Onstage are workers who never tire, never complain, and never stop. The…
3 weeks ago
HTW Live: Busting the Myths of Irish Immigration — Recorded at the Tenement Museum
Season 7 Episode 4
March 18, 1879. A crowd gathers around an indoor track in Brooklyn, NY, as an Irish immigrant named Bartholomew O’Donnell attempts a strange feat: wa…
4 weeks ago
From Radio Diaries: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier
Season 7
Why did Orson Welles take on a murder mystery? Listen for yourself.
This week, we're sharing a special preview of Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier…
1 month ago
Axis Sally’s Nazi Radio
Season 7
March 10, 1949. Defendant Mildred Gillars arrives at a courthouse to hear her verdict. To trial-watchers, she’s known as Axis Sally—the American woma…
1 month ago
Stalin Is Dead! | Сталин мертв!
Season 7 Episode 3
March 5, 1953. The Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, is on his deathbed, and he’s turning blue. At the end of his life, Stalin is surrounde…
1 month, 1 week ago
Disneyland on a Deadline
Season 7 Episode 2
March 1, 1951. Two Texas horse trainers sit down to lunch with Walt Disney. They assume he wants to use their animals in a movie. Instead, Walt leans…
1 month, 3 weeks ago