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Encore: Tulsa Race Massacre | The Promised Land
Season 33 Episode 1
In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma boasted one of the nation’s most prosperous African-American communities. Greenwood was home to 108 Black-owned businesses, …
4 years, 11 months ago
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper | The Man in Row 18
Season 32 Episode 1
On November 24th, 1971, a man on a Boeing 727 bound for Seattle handed a flight attendant a note that read, “Miss, I have a bomb here.” No one knew t…
5 years ago
Bleeding Kansas | The Man Who Sparked the Civil War
Season 31 Episode 5
John Brown has been called many things: fanatic, hero, terrorist, martyr, zealot. Some of his contemporaries, including Frederick Douglass, believed …
5 years ago
Bleeding Kansas | His Soul Goes Marching On
Season 31 Episode 4
On October 17th, 1859, John Brown was barricaded inside the federal armory at Harpers Ferry with his hostages and his remaining followers. His attemp…
5 years ago
Bleeding Kansas | The Raid on Harpers Ferry
Season 31 Episode 3
In December 1858, John Brown was back in Kansas and Missouri, making headlines for dramatic and deadly raids on plantations. He and his followers fre…
5 years ago
Bleeding Kansas | The Pottawatomie Massacre
Season 31 Episode 2
On the night of May 24th, 1856, radical abolitionist John Brown and seven of his followers crept along the banks of Kansas’s Pottawatomie Creek and s…
5 years, 1 month ago
Bleeding Kansas | John Brown's Crusade
Season 31 Episode 1
In the 1850s, the United States was lurching toward a crisis over slavery -- and abolitionist John Brown stepped into the fray. Brown believed it was…
5 years, 1 month ago
America's Monuments | The Trouble With Confederate Statues
Season 30 Episode 7
In recent years, there’s been a movement to remove statues of Confederate leaders and other monuments that some see as celebrations of America’s raci…
5 years, 1 month ago
America's Monuments | 58,000 Names
Season 30 Episode 6
The Vietnam War was one of the most divisive conflicts in American history. Over 58,000 Americans died in the fighting; many more returned home with …
5 years, 1 month ago
America's Monuments | The Mansion of the King
Season 30 Episode 5
Few historic residences are more synonymous with their owners than Graceland. Purchased by Elvis Presley in 1957, the stately Memphis mansion was the…
5 years, 1 month ago