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Du Bois Joins The Communist Party (1961)
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Dec 5 2023
The First Phone In The White House (1878)
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Dec 3 2023
The Alcatraz Occupation (1969) w/ Julian Brave Noisecat [[Archive Episode]]
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Nov 30 2023
The Hopis On Alcatraz (1894)
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Nov 28 2023
A Thanksgiving Potluck!
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Nov 22 2023
JFK Almost Assassinated (1960) [Revisited]
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Nov 21 2023
Joe Hill's Last Will (1915)
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Nov 19 2023
Pence Gets Booed At "Hamilton" (2016)
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Nov 16 2023
Henry Ford Contests An Election (1918)
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Nov 14 2023
The Exploding Whale (1970)
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Nov 12 2023
"The Demon of Andersonville" Executed for War Crimes (1865)
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Nov 9 2023
An Explosion Rocks The Capitol (1983)
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Nov 7 2023
Elected While In A Coma (1980)
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Nov 5 2023
The Unmarked Grave (2019) w/ Joe Richman
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Nov 2 2023
The Americans Fighting In Spain (1938) w/ Adam Hochschild
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Oct 31 2023
The Donora Killer Smog (1948)
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Oct 29 2023
NOW is Next (1966)
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Oct 26 2023
Colin + Obama (2008) w/ Leah Wright Rigueur
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Oct 24 2023
"The Jazz Singer" and Hollywood Empire (1927) w/ Walt Hickey
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Oct 22 2023
Trump Shows Up In New Hampshire (1987) w/ Robert Fleegler
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Oct 19 2023
Carter Restores Jefferson Davis's Citizenship (1978)
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Oct 17 2023
"Operation Clark County" Totally Backfires (2004)
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Oct 15 2023
The Real Free State of Jones (1863)
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Oct 12 2023
The Scrub Bull Trials (1919)
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Oct 10 2023
The Poisoned Tylenol Panic (1982)
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Oct 8 2023
Italy Invades Ethiopia, World Freaks Out (1935) w/ Isaac-Davy Aronson
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Oct 5 2023
The Hiroshima Maidens (1955) w/ Josh Levin
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Oct 3 2023
Yeltsin Refuses To Leave The Plane (1994)
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Oct 1 2023
"Actually, You Forgot Poland" (2004)
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Sep 28 2023
Big Dig Energy (1983) w/ Ian Coss
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Sep 26 2023
Stanislav Petrov Prevents Armageddon (1983)
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Sep 24 2023
'The West Wing' Premieres (1999) w/ Hrishikesh Hirway
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Sep 21 2023
The First Anti-Amalgamation Law (1664)
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Sep 19 2023
What YOU Learned On Your Summer Travels
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Sep 17 2023
The Case For Capitalism (1970) w/ Noel King
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Sep 14 2023
The Reagan's Prime-Time Drug Address (1986) w/ Donovan X Ramsey
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Sep 12 2023
The First Food Nutrition Labels (1971) w/ Xaq Frohlich
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Sep 10 2023
Upton Sinclair's Epic Run For Governor (1933)
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Sep 7 2023
What We Learned On Our Summer Travels
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Sep 5 2023
Adam Mckay is Morris The Cat (1992) [[Archive Episode]]
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Aug 31 2023
The Man Who Killed The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1894) [[Archive Episode]]
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Aug 29 2023
Fred Korematsu's Internment (1942) [[Archive Episode]]
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Aug 27 2023
Missouri's Early Emancipation Proclamation (1861)
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Aug 24 2023
The Bridge To Nowhere (2005)
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Aug 22 2023
Nat Turner's Community (1831) w/ Vanessa Holden [[Archive Episode]]
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Aug 20 2023
The Steam Tunnel Incident and the D&D Panic (1979)
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Aug 17 2023
The Smithsonian, Great Idea (1846)
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Aug 15 2023
"Macaca" (2006) w/ Peter Hamby [[Archive Episode]]
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Aug 13 2023
Budd Trips Decker at the '84 Olympics (1984)
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Aug 10 2023
Clinton Finds Life On Mars (1996)
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Aug 8 2023
The Roots of "Roots" (1976) [[Archive Episode]]
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Aug 6 2023
Clean Up After Your Dog! (1978)
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Aug 3 2023
The Subway Vigilante (1984) w/ Leon Neyfakh
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Aug 1 2023
The Irish-American Gun-Runners (1973) w/ Nate Lavey [[Archive Episode]]
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Jul 30 2023
Thunderation! The Speaker Demands Bean Soup (1904)
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Jul 27 2023
The Plot To Blow Up Hell Gate Bridge (1942) w/ Rebecca Seidel
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Jul 25 2023
The Beer Summit (2009) [[Archive Episode]]
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Jul 23 2023
The Szilard Anti-Nuke Petition (1945)
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Jul 20 2023
The Ft Ontario Holocaust Refugees (1944) w/ Sarah Botstein
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Jul 18 2023
The Lost Robert E. Lee Oath Theory (1975) w/ John Reeves [[Archive Episode]]
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Jul 16 2023
Hubert Humphrey Takes Center Stage (1948) w/ Samuel G Freedman
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Jul 13 2023
Skylab Crashes Back To Earth (1979)
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Jul 11 2023
Nativists vs Catholics in Philadelphia (1844) [[Archive Episode]]
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Jul 9 2023
L'Enfant Maps Out DC (1791) w/ Scott W Berg
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Jul 6 2023
Napalming Harvard's Soccer Field (1942)
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Jul 4 2023
The Great American Roadtrip (1956) w/ Eddie Alterman [[Archive Episode]]
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Jul 2 2023
The Abortion Pill Protest (1992) w/ TJ Raphael
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Jun 29 2023
Readmitting Rebel States (1868)
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Jun 27 2023
Flag Burning Is Free Speech (1989) w/ Michael Liroff
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Jun 25 2023
Superman vs KKK (1946)
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Jun 22 2023
Nightwalking w/ Bianca Giaever
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Jun 20 2023
Lift Every Voice and Sing (1900)
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Jun 18 2023
The Seligman Affair (1877) w/ Zev Eleff
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Jun 15 2023
The Challenger Disaster Final Report (1986)
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Jun 13 2023
Death On The Lot: Hattie McDaniel's Fight w/ Hadley Meares and Brian Steele
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Jun 11 2023
Death On The Lot: Hollywood's Wild Labor History w/ Brian Steele and Hadley Meares
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Jun 8 2023
The Obama Oral History Project Is Here
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Jun 6 2023
An Ode To The Obit w/ Don Van Natta and Jacob Feldman
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Jun 4 2023
You Get A Podcast!
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Jun 1 2023
Etan Patz And The Rise Of "Stranger Danger" (1979)
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May 30 2023
Memorial Rerun: The Vietnam Memorial Controversy
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May 28 2023
Addy, American Girl Doll (Part 2) w/ Aisha Harris
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May 25 2023
American Girl Doll (Part 1) w/ Aisha Harris
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May 23 2023
William Burns, America's Sherlock Holmes (1934)
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May 21 2023
The Bath School Bombing (1927)
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May 18 2023
Wounded Knee '73 (1973)
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May 16 2023
RFK's Fateful Meeting With Baldwin And Belafonte (1963) w/ Paul Kix
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May 14 2023
The Gaston Bombing in Birmingham (1963) w/ Paul Kix
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May 11 2023
Biden Spoils Obama's Gay Marriage Evolution (2012) w/ Sasha Issenberg
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May 9 2023
Clinton Boxers or Briefs (1994) w/ Kelsey and Alex from Normal Gossip
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May 7 2023
Anne Royall, Common Scold (1826) w/ Kelsey and Alex from Normal Gossip
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May 4 2023
USS Jamestown Helps Ireland (1847)
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May 2 2023
The Caning of Michael Fay (1994)
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Apr 30 2023
The Abu Ghraib Photos (2004)
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Apr 27 2023
Sybill's Midnight Ride (1777)
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Apr 25 2023
Recent Favorite: Colored Conventions (1830)
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Apr 23 2023
Recent Favorite: Franklin in France (1776) w/ Mike Duncan
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Apr 20 2023
Recent Favorite: JFK Almost Assassinated (1960)
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Apr 18 2023
DC, Not A Swamp (1810)
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Apr 13 2023
Reverse Freedom Rides (1962)
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Apr 11 2023

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