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DH Ep:53 American Concentration Camps
Disturbing History exists to sit with the parts of our past we’d rather avoid—the moments that force us to ask who we really are when fear takes over…
3 months, 1 week ago
DH Ep:52 The Weird Meteor
On the morning of December 14, 1807, the residents of southwestern Connecticut witnessed something that would change the course of American science f…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
DH Ep:51 The Odyssey Project: Kids For Sale
In August of 1973, Houston police were still pulling bodies from the dirt floor of Dean Corll’s boat shed when a frightened young man in Dallas picke…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
3 months, 3 weeks 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…
3 months, 4 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…
4 months 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…
4 months 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…
4 months, 1 week 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…
4 months, 1 week 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…
4 months, 2 weeks ago