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Introducing: It Was Said
Words move humankind for good and for ill, and in the American experience, our most important public speeches have been both mirrors and makers of th…
5 years, 7 months ago
Shaving Russia
Season 1 Episode 36
Sept 5, 1698. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia returns home from a year-long European tour. When noblemen, religious figures and friends gather to welc…
5 years, 7 months ago
The First American Sex Scandal
Season 1 Episode 35
August 25, 1797. Alexander Hamilton, the former Secretary of the Treasury, has published a new pamphlet. At first, readers assume this is going to be…
5 years, 7 months ago
Suffrage isn't Simple
Season 1 Episode 34
August 18, 1920. In the third row of the legislative chamber in Nashville, Tennessee, 24 year-old Harry Burn sits with a red rose pinned to his lapel…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Birth of Hip Hop
Season 1 Episode 132
August 11, 1973. At 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc plays his first New York City party. The dance floor is packed, the e…
5 years, 8 months ago
Killing Fairness
Season 1 Episode 32
August 4, 1987. The Federal Communication Commission’s leadership has come together in Washington D.C. to decide the fate of a vital issue: fairness.…
5 years, 8 months ago
Convert or Leave
Season 1 Episode 31
July 31, 1492. In cities, towns and villages across late medieval Spain, whole districts have emptied out. Houses abandoned, stores closed, and synag…
5 years, 8 months ago
Public Enemy #1
Season 1 Episode 30
July 22, 1934. John Dillinger, America's most famous outlaw, is gunned down by federal agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago. Dillinger's de…
5 years, 8 months ago
Destroyer of Worlds
Season 1 Episode 29
July 16, 1945. It happened within a millionth of a second. In the New Mexico desert in the early morning hours, a group of scientists watched in anti…
5 years, 9 months ago
Operation Mincemeat
Season 1 Episode 28
July 10, 1943. 150,000 British and American soldiers storm the beaches of Sicily in the first Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe. But the Nazi…
5 years, 9 months ago