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Transcontinental Railroad | The Iron Road
Season 75 Episode 5
Chinese laborers did much of the toughest work building the Central Pacific Railroad. That included blasting tunnels through the granite of the Sierr…
1 year, 5 months ago
History Daily: Rugby Union’s “Match of the Century”
Season 75
December 16, 1905. Rugby Union’s "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and the undefeated New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park.
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1 year, 5 months ago
FDR & Churchill: A Friendship For the Ages with History Hit's Dan Snow
Season 76 Episode 1
Great Britain and the United States have always enjoyed a special bond, and nowhere has that been more evident than in the friendship between Preside…
1 year, 5 months ago
Transcontinental Railroad | The Golden Spike
Season 75 Episode 4
In January 1869, leaders of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met in Washington, D.C. to discuss the final stretch of construction. For years, th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Transcontinental Railroad | Hell on Wheels
Season 75 Episode 3
In early 1866, Central Pacific workers were stalled in California, facing the monumental task of blasting 15 tunnels through solid granite in the Sie…
1 year, 5 months ago
Transcontinental Railroad | Dancing with a Whirlwind
Season 75 Episode 2
In the summer of 1863, an unscrupulous businessman named Thomas Durant gained control of the Union Pacific Railroad, the company chartered by Congres…
1 year, 6 months ago
History Daily: Introducing Mickey Mouse
Season 75
November 18, 1928. Mickey Mouse makes his big screen debut in Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie.
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1 year, 6 months ago
Transcontinental Railroad | Work of Giants
Season 75 Episode 1
In October 1860, railroad engineer Theodore Judah looked out across California’s Sierra Nevada range, dreaming of a railroad that would connect the U…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jamestown | Chief Opechancanough
Season 74 Episode 5
Many people are familiar with Powhatan, the Paramount Chief who ruled over a vast network of more than 30 tribes in the Chesapeake region when the En…
1 year, 6 months ago
Jamestown | The Great Reforms
Season 74 Episode 4
In April 1613, years of bloody warfare culminated in the kidnapping of the paramount chief Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas. The English colonists in J…
1 year, 6 months ago