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Black Baseball Goes Pro
Season 3
Feb 13, 1920. For over thirty years, Black baseball players have been locked out of the major leagues. So on this day in Kansas City, Rube Foster, a …
4 years, 2 months ago
The Great Comic Book Scare
Season 3
February 4, 1955. In a New York courtroom, the Comics Czar takes the stand. He’s in charge of enforcing a new code, meant to keep comic books from co…
4 years, 2 months ago
Surviving Auschwitz (Replay)
Season 3
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: January 27, 1945. Four Russian soldiers arrive at Auschwitz, on…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Apple Ad That Changed the World (Replay)
Season 3
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: January 22, 1984. Apple launches the very first Macintosh compu…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Great Boston Molasses Flood (Replay)
Season 3
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: January 15, 1919. Boston PD receives a call: “Send all availabl…
4 years, 3 months ago
Declaring War on Poverty (Replay)
Season 3
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: January 8, 1964. In his State of the Union address, Lyndon John…
4 years, 3 months ago
Best Stories of 2021
Season 2 Episode 53
In this year-end episode, Sally interviews the rest of the HISTORY This Week team about their favorite stories of the year and the most interesting i…
4 years, 3 months ago
Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Gift
Season 2 Episode 52
December 24, 1906. It’s Christmas Eve, but inventor Reginald Fessenden is working. Tonight, instead of sending a typical radio message in morse code,…
4 years, 3 months ago
Pursuing Trivia with Ken Jennings
Season 2 Episode 51
(EPISODE 100!) December 15, 1979. Two Canadian journalists are hanging out, drinking a beer, when they come up with an idea for a new game to test ra…
4 years, 4 months ago
How Lincoln Almost Lost it All
Season 2 Episode 50
December 11, 1862. Union Army engineers are urgently constructing a bridge, one that will carry soldiers into the town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, a…
4 years, 4 months ago