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Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | John Steinbeck: The Observer
Season 94 Episode 4
Growing up in the Salinas Valley of Northern California, John Steinbeck dreamed of becoming a professional writer. In his youth he took on odd jobs a…
2 months ago
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Mark Twain: Voice of a Nation
Season 94 Episode 3
In the late 1850s, a young man named Samuel Clemens started out piloting steamboats on the Mississippi River. Within a few years, he embarked on a wr…
2 months, 1 week ago
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Louisa May Alcott: The Breadwinner
Season 94 Episode 2
In 1840, eight-year-old Louisa May Alcott moved to the small town of Concord, Massachusetts with her family. There, she spent her days wandering thro…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Macabre
Season 94 Episode 1
In February 1826, 17-year-old Edgar Allan Poe was a promising student at the University of Virginia. But within a few months, gambling debts forced h…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
St. Valentines Day Massacre: Closing In On Capone
Season 93 Episode 3
In the aftermath of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, authorities faced mounting pressure to clean up Chicago and take down the violent mobsters who …
3 months ago
St. Valentines Day Massacre | Public Enemy No. 1
Season 93 Episode 2
On Valentine’s Day 1929, seven men were gunned down in a Chicago garage in an attack that stunned the nation. Photographs of the bloody scene appeare…
3 months, 1 week ago
St. Valentines Day Massacre | The Land of Bilk and Money
Season 93 Episode 1
In 1920, a young Al Capone arrived in Chicago looking for a fresh start, and his timing couldn’t have been better. That same year, Prohibition outlaw…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Conquering Polio | There Is No Patent
Season 92 Episode 4
In the early 1950s, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin were in a race to develop a vaccine against polio. While Salk’s killed-virus vaccine was the first to…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Conquering Polio | The Cutter Fiasco
Season 92 Episode 3
In April 1954, a group of first graders lined up in the gymnasium of an elementary school in McLean, Virginia for the start of the Salk polio vaccine…
4 months ago
Conquering Polio | Beyond the Microscope
Season 92 Episode 2
By the late 1940s, the National Institute of Infantile Paralysis had raised millions of dollars to pay for patient care and laboratory research. But …
4 months, 1 week ago