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The Corpsewood Manor Murders
This week we step away from the corridors of presidential power and head into the North Georgia mountains, to a hand-built stone castle on Taylor's R…
11 hours ago
The Fourteen Men Before George Washington
Everyone knows George Washington was the first President of the United States. Technically true. But it's also a sleight of hand, because fourteen me…
2 days, 11 hours ago
Dwight Eisenhower: The Secret Coup Machine
Dwight Eisenhower is the president most Americans remember as the calm grandfather of the nineteen fifties. The general who beat Hitler. The man who …
4 days, 11 hours ago
The Foo Fighters of World War Two
The story of the Foo Fighters of World War Two is one of the strangest, best-documented, and least-resolved cases in the history of military aviation…
1 week ago
Richard Nixon: Watergate Was Only the Doorway
Most people think they know Watergate. They don't. They know the headline. The break-in, the tapes, the resignation, the wave from the helicopter on …
1 week, 2 days ago
Ronald Reagan: Presidency Off the Books
In the late afternoon of November twenty-first, 1986, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall stood inside an office a sho…
1 week, 4 days ago
Abraham Lincoln and the Dakota Thirty-Eight
On the day after Christmas, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged from a single scaffold in Mankato, Minnesota. It remains the largest mass execution in Am…
2 weeks ago
Andrew Jackson: Democracy, Blood, and the Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson sold himself as the champion of the common man. His face has been on the twenty dollar bill since 1928. There are statues of him in ci…
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The Dozier School for Boys
This episode contains discussion of child abuse, physical and sexual violence against minors, and descriptions of deaths in state custody. Listener d…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Real "Wild West"
The Wild West most of us inherited is a marketing campaign. The cowboy in the lighter hat, the noble sheriff, the high-noon duel in a dusty street — …
2 weeks, 6 days ago