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Dutch Manhattan - The One-Legged Soldier
Season 15 Episode 5
Peter Stuyvesant was fresh from losing a leg in battle against the Spanish when he arrived in Manhattan in 1647. He was a tough soldier who was ready…
6 years, 7 months ago
Dutch Manhattan - The Sheriff Comes to Town
Season 15 Episode 4
Just as it was becoming a New World success story, disaster came to New Amsterdam. Willem Kieft, the Dutch leader appointed by the West India Trading…
6 years, 7 months ago
Dutch Manhattan - Pirates and Prostitutes
Season 15 Episode 3
New Amsterdam was a desperate place. For the first decade of its existence, the Dutch city on the tip of Manhattan Island served as a haven for pirat…
6 years, 8 months ago
Dutch Manhattan - Buying Manhattan
Season 15 Episode 2
Twelve years after Henry Hudson's 1609 trip charting the Hudson River, the Dutch used his voyage as the basis for a new colony, which would be wedged…
6 years, 8 months ago
Dutch Manhattan - Henry Hudson’s Big Mistake
Season 15 Episode 1
In 1609, a headstrong English sea captain named Henry Hudson set out on behalf of the Dutch East India Company to find a trade route to Asia — and pr…
6 years, 8 months ago
Remembering Emmett Till
Season 14 Episode 7
The murder of Emmett Till galvanized the nascent civil rights movement. But the full story of what happened in Money, Miss., on August 28, 1955, is s…
6 years, 8 months ago
The Bastard Brigade - Showdown in the Alps
Season 14 Episode 6
The Alsos mission had a hard-charging leader in Boris Pash and an eccentric band of recruits. But if the so-called Bastard Brigade was going to track…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Bastard Brigade - The Most Wanted Men
Season 14 Episode 5
As the Nazis inched closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon, panic grew among the Allied forces. The Alsos Mission — otherwise known as the Bastard Brig…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Bastard Brigade - The Strangest Man
Season 14 Episode 4
By mid-1944, the Allies’ fight to track down and stop the Nazi atomic program had met with failure and disappointment. And so the Manhattan Project t…
6 years, 9 months ago
The Bastard Brigade - The Kennedy Curse
Season 14 Episode 3
In early 1944, the Allies developed a desperate plan to destroy several massive bunkers in Nazi-controlled France—bunkers that reportedly housed atom…
6 years, 9 months ago