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Back to SearchThree centuries of American Indian Wars
Episode 5435
For three centuries, from the earliest colonial encounters through the closing of the frontier, warfare between European settlers and Indigenous peop…
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The 1960 Battle Against Voting Sabotage
Episode 5417
In 1960, the state of Louisiana became the battleground for one of the most brazen campaigns of voting sabotage in American history. White officials …
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How the Poison Squad Saved American Food
Episode 5407
In the early 1900s, a team of young men employed by the United States Department of Agriculture volunteered to eat poison. They consumed borax, forma…
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The Epic Rise of the Sioux Nation
Episode 5423
The Sioux Nation's rise to dominance across the northern Great Plains is one of the most remarkable stories of adaptation, expansion, and military pr…
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How the Great Migration Remade America
Episode 5404
Between 1910 and 1970, approximately six million African Americans left the rural South and relocated to cities across the North, Midwest, and West i…
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From Soviet Tanks to Drone Swarms
Episode 5392
The story of modern warfare is often told through the lens of great battles and charismatic generals, but the real revolution has been mechanical. Fr…
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Sugar and Shallow Water Saved Pearl Harbor
Episode 5416
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is remembered as one of the most devastating military surprises in history. But buried within the cat…
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1927 Mississippi Flood and the Great Migration
Episode 5386
In the spring of 1927, the Mississippi River unleashed a catastrophe unlike anything the United States had ever witnessed. Swollen by months of relen…
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How One Morning Sight Decides Your Year
Episode 5397
The ancient Roman practice of augury, the reading of divine messages in the flight patterns and behavior of birds, strikes modern minds as quaint sup…
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How Social Security flipped American poverty
Episode 5398
In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, creating a program that would fundamentally transform the experience of aging in…
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