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The Ice King | Indian Summer
Season 91 Episode 4
After two turbulent decades in the ice trade, Frederic Tudor had finally made it. Expanding into the American South had paid off, with cities like Ne…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Conquering Polio | The March of Dimes
Season 92 Episode 1
In the summer of 1921, 39-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt was on vacation with his family when he developed a fever, muscle aches, and chills. Pai…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Ice King | Slippery Business
Season 91 Episode 3
By 1816, Frederic Tudor had spent a decade shipping New England ice to Cuba—with little to show for it. Setbacks and vanished profits nearly ruined h…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Ice King | Frozen Assets
Season 91 Episode 2
In 1806, Frederic Tudor set out to build a fortune by shipping ice from his family’s pond near Boston to the tropical Caribbean—an audacious idea no …
5 months ago
The Ice King | No Joke
Season 91 Episode 1
In 1801, a young Boston merchant named Frederic Tudor made a life-changing visit to Cuba. There he had a wildly ambitious idea: he would ship New Eng…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Mayflower | The Thanksgiving Myth
Season 90 Episode 5
In 1620 the Pilgrims arrived in a land already shaped by centuries of Native history. For the people who lived there, the Wampanoag, it was Patuxet—a…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
History Daily: The Assassination of Sergei Kirov
Season 90
December 1, 1934. Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated by a lone gunman, giving Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin the justification to purge the C…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Mayflower | Cutthroats
Season 90 Episode 4
In May 1622, the Pilgrims were still reeling from Squanto’s betrayal when a ship appeared in Plymouth Harbor, carrying an advance party for a rival E…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Listen Now: American Scandal | The West Memphis Three
On May 5, 1993, three 8-year-old boys were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. The tiny local police department launches an investigation bu…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
History Daily: Darwin’s Origin of Species
Season 90
November 24, 1859. Charles Darwin sparks a scientific revolution by introducing the theory of evolution in his book On the Origin of Species.
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5 months, 3 weeks ago