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Ulysses S. Grant: The Curse of Loyal Friends
Ulysses S. Grant left the White House without a fortune, never took a bribe, and never sold an office, yet his administration produced more documente…
3 months, 1 week ago
Prohibition: Speakeasy In Chief
On New Year's Day 1927, New York City's medical examiner stood in front of reporters and accused the United States government of poisoning its own ci…
3 months, 1 week ago
Iwo Jima
On January 6, 1949, two starving Japanese machine gunners walked out of the caves on Iwo Jima and surrendered to American airmen who had no idea they…
3 months, 1 week ago
Jimmy Hoffa
For weeks this show has lived in the corridors of power, among presidents and spies and the men who shaped the country from behind closed doors. This…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
George W. Bush: The War On Terror
In this episode of the Disturbing History presidential series, we cross out of settled history and into living memory to examine the presidency of Ge…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
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 …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
3 months, 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…
3 months, 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 …
3 months, 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…
3 months, 4 weeks ago