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The Plot to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln
Episode 2068
The 1876 plot to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln is one of the strangest and most audacious crimes in American history.
The scheme aimed to ransom …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Inca Empire
Episode 2067
The Inca Empire was the largest and most sophisticated state ever created in the pre-Columbian Americas, stretching along the Andes from present-day …
2 months ago
The History of Tobacco
Episode 2066
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, members of his crew observed the Taíno people offering them dried leaves as gifts.
They had no clu…
2 months ago
The Young Turks
Episode 2065
The 19th-century Ottoman Empire was in decline and was called the “sick man of Europe”.
The Ottoman Empire, like Qing China and Imperial Russia, fail…
2 months ago
Questions and Answers: Volume 40
Episode 2064
March is upon us. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting longer, temperatures are getting warmer, and people are about to go nuts over…
2 months ago
Edgar Allan Poe
Episode 2063
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most influential and haunting voices in American literature, a writer whose imagination reshaped horror, detective fic…
2 months ago
The American Basketball Association
Episode 2062
One of the most compelling stories in American professional sports is the rise of the American Basketball Association or the ABA.
Founded in 1967, th…
2 months, 1 week ago
Marvel Comics
Episode 2061
Marvel Comics has been one of the most prolific comics publishers over the last century.
Not only have they been one of the biggest comic publishers,…
2 months, 1 week ago
Did George Mallory Climb Mount Everest First?
Episode 2060
Almost everyone knows that the first people to climb Mount Everest were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, who reached the summit and returned in 195…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Danish Resistance
Episode 2059
As Germany conquered countries in WWII, in many nations, they found willing volunteers to help them identify Jews to send to concentration camps.
How…
2 months, 1 week ago