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Warren Harding: Corpse Of An Administration
The nation wept for Warren G. Harding in August 1923. The funeral train crawled home through crowds that stretched for miles, mourners singing hymns …
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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…
1 month, 3 weeks 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…
1 month, 3 weeks 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 …
1 month, 3 weeks 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 month, 4 weeks 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 …
2 months 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…
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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…
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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…
2 months, 1 week ago
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 months, 1 week ago