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The Civil Rights Children’s Crusade
Season 4
April 20, 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walks out of Alabama’s Birmingham Jail after being held for a week for peacefully protesting. He spent mos…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ping Pong Diplomacy
Season 4
April 10, 1971. A team of ping pong players leaves Hong Kong to step across a border and become the first group of Americans welcomed to China in ove…
3 years ago
148 Tornadoes in 18 Hours (Replay)
Season 4
April 3, 1974. Across America, many people wake up this morning thinking it will be a normal day. But in the next 24 hours, almost 150 tornadoes will…
3 years ago
Bunnies, Baseball, and Aliens on the Moon
Season 4
April 1, 2023. In honor of April Fools’ Day, we give you three historical tales of the bluff and the bamboozle. An autumn day in 1726, when an Englis…
3 years ago
Fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Season 4
March 25, 1911. It’s quarter to five on a Saturday—closing time at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Someone on the cutting room floor lights a cigare…
3 years ago
The Tragic Life of London’s Favorite Clown
Season 4
March 17, 1828. The celebrated clown, Joseph Grimaldi, rises from his sickbed. Once London’s most energetic performer, he’s gradually been crippled b…
3 years, 1 month ago
Axis Sally’s Nazi Radio
Season 4
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…
3 years, 1 month ago
Introducing: American Football (Episode 1: Canton, Ohio)
Season 4
A new History Channel podcast, American Football is the untold tale of the rough-and-tumble origins of the National Football League. Produced and pre…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Flight of the Concorde
Season 4
March 2, 1969. French pilot André Turcat takes to the skies above Toulouse-Blagnac airport. He’s flying an odd-looking plane: long and slender with t…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Cold War Gets A Wall
Season 4
February 22, 1962. The city of Berlin is cut in half by a concrete and barbed wire wall. On the west side, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy is gi…
3 years, 1 month ago