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Who Really Invented the Light Bulb?
Episode 18
While Thomas Edison is widely credited as the inventor of the electric lightbulb in 1879, it had existed in one form or another since the the beginni…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Whiskey Rebellion
Episode 17
The Whiskey Tax, imposed in 1791, was the first federal tax on a domestic product by a United States government. It was introduced by Alexander Hamil…
3 years, 7 months ago
African Americans in WW2
Episode 16
The experience of African Americans in World War 2 was, to say the least, a gross double standard. While fascism was confronted in the name of libert…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Race for the North Pole
Episode 15
On April 6th 1909, deep inside the Artic Circle after months on the ice, Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and their four Inuit guides reached what they t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Becoming FDR
Episode 14
In August 1921, when Franklin D. Roosevelt was 39 years old, he contracted Polio, paralysing him from the waist down. Jonathan Darman tells Don how, …
3 years, 7 months ago
Sleepy Hollow & the Haunted Hudson
Episode 13
On Halloween, Elizabeth Bradley tells Don about Washington Irving's famous story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, its headless horseman and the influenc…
3 years, 7 months ago
America's Psychedelic '60s: Timothy Leary and LSD
Episode 12
In 1963, a Gilded Age estate in Millbrook, New York, became a venue for academic research into therapeutic uses for LSD, led by psychologist Timothy …
3 years, 8 months ago
The Oregon Trail
Episode 11
From the 1830s until the arrival of the transcontinental railroad, hundreds of thousands of people packed their possessions into wagons and headed we…
3 years, 8 months ago
CIA: The History
Episode 10
When the Central Intelligence Agency was created by President Truman in 1947, it was the latest incarnation of an American intelligence-gathering ser…
3 years, 8 months ago
The US Marines' Pacific War
Episode 9
When US Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific, in August 1942, they were taking part in the first US ground offensive of World W…
3 years, 8 months ago