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The Web Goes World Wide
Season 3
August 6, 1991. On an Internet news board, a memo appears, describing a new project that some scientists have been developing: “The WorldWideWeb (WWW…
3 years, 8 months ago
Convert or Leave (Replay)
Season 3
7/31/1492. In cities, towns and villages across late medieval Spain, whole districts have emptied out. Houses abandoned, stores closed, and synagogue…
3 years, 8 months ago
Walt Whitman's First Fan Mail
Season 3
July 21, 1855. Literary lion Ralph Waldo Emerson writes a letter to an unknown Brooklyn journalist named Walt Whitman. He’s just read Whitman’s first…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Games to Win Ancient Rome
Season 3
July 13, 44 BCE. Julius Caesar is dead, stabbed by a trusted friend. With Rome shaken, the Senate meets to decide next steps. They're confronting the…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Colosseum Becomes a Wonder
Season 3
July 7, 2007. In a dramatic ceremony featuring pop stars, fireworks, and smoke canons, the Colosseum is named one of the seven new wonders of the wor…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mutiny on the Black Sea
Season 3
June 27, 1905. It’s the last morning of Ippolit Gilyarovsky’s life. He wakes up in a battleship on the Black Sea. The Potemkin. He’s a despised Russi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Introducing: Sports History This Week
Season 3
June 23, 1972. President Richard Nixon’s men broke into the Watergate complex just six days earlier. He’s attempting some damage control, but in betw…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Church Kidnaps Edgardo Mortara
Season 3
June 23, 1858. A knock at the door—it’s the papal police. For the Mortaras, a Jewish family living in Bologna, this is not a good sign. And soon, the…
3 years, 9 months ago
Watergate from the Inside (Replay)
Season 3
June 17, 1972. In the early morning hours, five men are caught after breaking into the Watergate building in Washington, DC. The failed break-in that…
3 years, 10 months ago
Bayard Rustin Marches Free
Season 3
June 11, 1946. Bayard Rustin walks out of the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after serving a sentence for conscientiously objecting to WWII. A pacifi…
3 years, 10 months ago