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What Was the American Ice Age?
Episode 336
For thousands of years, North America was a frozen frontier buried beneath miles-deep ice... How did the first people reach the Americas live here? W…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanksgiving
Episode 335
In the fall of 1621, a year after the pilgrim ship the Mayflower landed on the coast of New England, the settlers of the Plymouth Colony celebrated t…
7 months ago
Crime of the Century: Who Kidnapped Charles Lindbergh Jr?
Episode 334
The Lindbergh Kidnapping is one of the most influential crimes in American history; it plunged a national hero into an investigation which changed th…
7 months ago
What was the Satanic Panic?
Episode 333
Why were more than 12 thousand cases of satanic abuse brought in the 1980s? Was the Prince of Darkness walking among us then? Or did something else c…
7 months, 1 week ago
What if the Texas Republic survived?
Episode 332
In 1845, the Republic of Texas stood at a crossroads. In our history, they chose to join the USA… but what if they chose another path? Was this even …
7 months, 1 week ago
The Hurricane Betsy Conspiracy: New Orleans
Episode 331
Did New Orleans' officials bomb the levees protecting the Lower Ninth Ward in 1965?
When Hurricane Betsy swept through the Atlantic Basin, it killed a…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
The Supreme Court’s WORST Ever Case: Dred Scott v Sandford
Episode 330
A Supreme Court decision that sent shockwaves across America. Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857. Who was the Chief Justice responsible for the decision? On…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Lone Gunman?
Episode 329
Why not have a go at understanding one of the most famous conspiracies of the 20th Century?
We will probably never get an answer for what really happe…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Bleeding Kansas: Start of the Civil War?
Episode 328
Was 'Bleeding Kansas' a dress rehearsal for the Civil War to come? During the 1850s pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed in the newly create…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
American Origins of Halloween
Episode 327
How did the pre-Christian commemoration of Samhain travel across the seas from Ancient Ireland to America? And how did it evolve into the Halloween w…
7 months, 4 weeks ago