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DH Ep:50 The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
In 1932, the United States government told six hundred Black men in rural Alabama that they had "bad blood" and promised them free treatment. What th…
9 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:49 The Civil War
This is the episode we've been building toward. The one that sits at the very heart of what disturbing history means. Because nothing in the American…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:48 The Yuba County Five
On February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba County, California, drove to Chico State University to watch their favorite college basketball team play…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:47 The African Slave Trade
This episode explores one of history’s greatest crimes in all its complexity. We examine not only the European demand that fueled the transatlantic s…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:46 Christopher Columbus
In this comprehensive episode of Disturbing History, we journey back over five centuries to examine the true story of Christopher Columbus, stripping…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
DH Ep:45 The Dust Bowl Migration
On April fourteenth, 1935, a wall of darkness seven thousand feet high and two hundred miles wide tore across the Great Plains at sixty miles per hou…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
DH Ep:44 The Incredibly Stupid One
On a sweltering June night in 1967, twenty-year-old sailor Douglas Brent Hegdahl stepped onto the deck of the USS Canberra for a breath of air, unawa…
10 months ago
DH Ep:43 J. Edgar Hoover
On a humid morning in May nineteen seventy-two, the most powerful man in Washington died naked on his bedroom floor, and he wasn't the president. For…
10 months ago
DH Ep:42 The Donner Party
In the winter of 1846–1847, eighty-seven pioneers set out with dreams of a new life in California—and found themselves trapped in the Sierra Nevada M…
10 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:41 The Thin Blue Line
This episode isn't going to be easy to hear, but it's necessary. I spent sixteen years in law enforcement, ending my career as an Atlanta police offi…
10 months, 2 weeks ago