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Retropod

Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters - forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers.

The last person to step foot on the moon

Published: Nov. 1, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds

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Mary Ann Van Hoof and her Marian apparitions

Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds

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The origins of the Waterloo teeth

Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds

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The biscuit tin that protected the crown jewels

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds

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The fact and fiction of Prince Philip

Published: Aug. 2, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds

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Introducing Moonrise

Published: July 19, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds

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The time we thought an asteroid might kill us all

Published: July 2, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 22 seconds

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Suzanne Lenglen, the first goddess of tennis

Published: July 1, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds

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The origins of the National Rifle Association

Published: June 24, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 45 seconds

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Oregon was Americas first and only state to begin as 'whites-only'

Published: June 19, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 7 seconds

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A history of extreme makeovers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Published: June 14, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 14 seconds

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Eisenhowers famous speech to U.S. troops the day before D-Day

Published: June 10, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 22 seconds

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The painter who became the CIAs master of disguise

Published: June 7, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 11 seconds

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The ax that killed Leon Trotsky

Published: June 6, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine

Published: June 5, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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The pistols that almost fell from the sky

Published: June 4, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 34 seconds

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The rat that helped win the Cold War

Published: June 3, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 32 seconds

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The test that changed childbirth

Published: May 31, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 41 seconds

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Amid rising tension between the U.S. and Cuba, Hemingway's widow went on a literary rescue mission

Published: May 30, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds

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Frank Lloyd Wright tried to create a perfect house for an imperfect world

Published: May 29, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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Rising from ruin: The many rebuilds of Notre Dame

Published: May 28, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds

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A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve?

Published: May 24, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 14 seconds

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How food found its way into the freezer

Published: May 23, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds

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The man who helped create the first measles vaccine didnt vaccinate his own son

Published: May 22, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 23 seconds

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Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims

Published: May 21, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 37 seconds

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Why Naval Academy students climb a greased up obelisk every year

Published: May 20, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 4 seconds

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The forgotten pioneers of the first American utopia

Published: May 17, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds

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The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame

Published: May 16, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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The unlikely beginning of paint-by-number

Published: May 15, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds

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The jazz queen who chose home over fame

Published: May 14, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 3 seconds

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The most difficult job Robert Mueller ever had

Published: May 13, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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Anna Jarvis spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it

Published: May 10, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds

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The books presidents read

Published: May 8, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds

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The Mouth of the South

Published: April 12, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 54 seconds

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Hair peace. Bed peace.

Published: April 11, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 54 seconds

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Queen Arawelo

Published: April 10, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 39 seconds

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The man who killed Bonnie and Clyde

Published: April 9, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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Ketamine in the mainstream

Published: April 5, 2019, 9 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds

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From handsaws to parades: D.C.s cherry blossom trees werent always beloved

Published: April 5, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 22 seconds

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The day before the Chernobyl disaster

Published: April 4, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds

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Last Seen Ads

Published: April 3, 2019, 9:28 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 21 seconds

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Earthrise

Published: April 2, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 49 seconds

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George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL

Published: April 1, 2019, 9:17 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds

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The first 'Queen of the Air'

Published: March 29, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 26 seconds

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A spy in the Confederate White House

Published: March 28, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 38 seconds

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The nurse who picked up a rifle

Published: March 27, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds

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The 'Night Witches'

Published: March 26, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds

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The extraordinary life of Civil War veteran Albert Cashier

Published: March 25, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds

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The first black senator and Americas brief biracial democracy

Published: March 22, 2019, 9:33 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds

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Why isnt lynching illegal?

Published: March 21, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 3 seconds

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Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena

Published: March 20, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood

Published: March 19, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 1 second

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A rich piece of scandal

Published: March 18, 2019, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 44 seconds

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Before the Lovings, another interracial couple fought to marry

Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Jim Crow and the rise of blackface

Published: Feb. 8, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds

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The Wicked Bible

Published: Feb. 7, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds

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How the State of the Union went from speech to spectacle

Published: Feb. 6, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes

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The Soviet officer who stopped World War III

Published: Feb. 4, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds

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How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL

Published: Feb. 1, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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The godmother of the open office

Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 44 seconds

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The Confederate spy who evaded capture

Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds

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Pinballs sordid past

Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds

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The man inside the minds of a million consumers

Published: Jan. 24, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds

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A history of hats in the House

Published: Jan. 23, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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The last person to set foot on the moon

Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds

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How Martin Luther King Jr. got his name

Published: Jan. 21, 2019, 10:03 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 23 seconds

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Tenure for life

Published: Jan. 18, 2019, 10:01 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 53 seconds

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The hatchet wielding leader of the anti-alcohol movement

Published: Jan. 17, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 11 seconds

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A bridge of ice at Niagara Falls

Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds

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A history of the U.S.-Mexico border

Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 44 seconds

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A presidential emergency that didn't end well

Published: Jan. 11, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds

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How Lego took over the toy world

Published: Jan. 10, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 32 seconds

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The summer men rebelled against their shirts

Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

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The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet

Published: Jan. 8, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 49 seconds

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One of the greatest astronomers of her generation

Published: Jan. 7, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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How one World War II veteran lived to be a centenarian

Published: Jan. 4, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 3 seconds

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A wooden mallet with a colorful history of being shattered

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 37 seconds

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The rabble rouser who inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Published: Jan. 2, 2019, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 33 seconds

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The militarys famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number

Published: Dec. 24, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds

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The Christmas Truce

Published: Dec. 21, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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A piece of punctuation that failed to leave its mark

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 48 seconds

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President Grant fired his own special prosecutor

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 28 seconds

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The first presidential press conference

Published: Dec. 18, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds

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The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court

Published: Dec. 17, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds

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The policeman who arrested a president

Published: Dec. 14, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 16 seconds

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One of the ugliest speaker fights in congressional history

Published: Dec. 13, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds

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The evangelist and convicted cat burglar who galvanized gay rights

Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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In 1939, the 'American Hitler' took the stage at Madison Square Garden

Published: Dec. 11, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 54 seconds

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The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food

Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.

Published: Dec. 7, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds

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Americas first black Catholic priest

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 17 seconds

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John Adams was eulogized before his son even knew he died

Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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George H.W. Bush was a president and a prankster

Published: Dec. 4, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 9 seconds

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The unlikely friendship between George H.W. Bush and Dana Carvey

Published: Dec. 1, 2018, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 12 seconds

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William Howard Tafts housekeeper kept track of his weight

Published: Nov. 30, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 39 seconds

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The National Christmas Tree

Published: Nov. 29, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds

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A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat

Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 39 seconds

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Benjamin Franklins complicated relationship with turkeys

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 56 seconds

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The origins of the Unknown Soldier

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 2:58 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 8 seconds

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Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter

Published: Nov. 16, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds

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Food stamps were born out of a surplus of food

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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William Rehnquist's proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor

Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes

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The first lady who couldnt get her memoir published

Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds

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Joachim Ronneberg, the saboteur who crippled Nazi atomic bomb project

Published: Nov. 12, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds

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America and warfare were never the same after World War I

Published: Nov. 9, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds

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Wong Kim Ark's Supreme Court fight for birthright citizenship

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 25 seconds

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How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials

Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

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The makings of an electoral heist

Published: Nov. 6, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 48 seconds

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Rahm Emanuel, Howard Dean and the midterm elections of 2006

Published: Nov. 5, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 37 seconds

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Mary Ann Van Hoof and the Marian apparitions

Published: Nov. 1, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds

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Close encounters with the Capitols Demon Cat

Published: Oct. 31, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 22 seconds

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How Pittsburgh's Mister Rogers talked to children about tragedy

Published: Oct. 30, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 42 seconds

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New York's mad bomber

Published: Oct. 29, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 20 seconds

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The sword pulled from history

Published: Oct. 26, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds

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A love supreme: Ruth Bader and Martin Ginsburg

Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 42 seconds

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The Sultan of Swat wasnt always known as a slugger

Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds

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Big Bird and the genius inside

Published: Oct. 22, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 3 seconds

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Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman

Published: Oct. 19, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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The metamorphosis of Jackie O

Published: Oct. 18, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds

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The body of Emmett Till

Published: Oct. 17, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 3 seconds

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The photographer and the busboy

Published: Oct. 16, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 25 seconds

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The Romanovs, Russia's 'odious' autocratic family

Published: Oct. 15, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 55 seconds

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The gory origins of the Waterloo teeth

Published: Oct. 12, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds

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How the teddy bear was born

Published: Oct. 11, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds

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The first black female White House reporter held the powerful accountable on civil rights

Published: Oct. 10, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds

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The teenage girl who caught a Nazi monster

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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The complicated history of swimsuits and Miss America

Published: Oct. 8, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 38 seconds

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The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis

Published: Oct. 5, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds

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The surprising history of the 25th Amendment

Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships

Published: Oct. 3, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds

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Americas forgotten Iranian hostage

Published: Oct. 2, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 45 seconds

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The heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse

Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds

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How accusations against Supreme Court nominees were once handled

Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds

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The man and the coconut that saved JFK

Published: Sept. 27, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 35 seconds

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Rosie the Riveter isnt who you think she is

Published: Sept. 26, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 28 seconds

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The presidential pardon the country never forgot

Published: Sept. 25, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 21 seconds

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How Anita Hills testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"

Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds

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The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office

Published: Sept. 21, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 7 seconds

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The photographer who helped end child labor in America

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 23 seconds

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Only half of George Washingtons Supreme Court justices showed up on time

Published: Sept. 19, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds

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Winnie and Nelson Mandelas marriage survived prison but not freedom

Published: Sept. 18, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 55 seconds

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The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK

Published: Sept. 17, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds

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The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel

Published: Sept. 14, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds

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How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous

Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 54 seconds

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The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 8 seconds

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Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his angel mother and mama

Published: Sept. 10, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 27 seconds

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The story of the real Charlotte of Charlotte's Web

Published: Sept. 7, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 50 seconds

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Roe v. Wades forgotten loser

Published: Sept. 6, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds

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The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh

Published: Sept. 5, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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The campus massacre before Kent State

Published: Sept. 4, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 9 seconds

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The time the United States illegally deported 1 million Mexican Americans

Published: Sept. 3, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners

Published: Aug. 31, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 48 seconds

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Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up

Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 17 seconds

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How a Supreme Court clerk changed the decision on Clay v. United States

Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 6 seconds

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Colonel Blood, the scoundrel who tried to steal Great Britain's crown jewels

Published: Aug. 28, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 53 seconds

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Being a maverick almost stopped John McCain from becoming a public servant

Published: Aug. 27, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds

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Paul Jennings, the former slave who disputed a legend from history

Published: Aug. 24, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds

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What Operation Pied Piper taught us about family separations

Published: Aug. 23, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 1 second

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Reagan's most historic speech took a few years to make an impact

Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds

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A presidents lions and the emoluments clause

Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 9:14 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 15 seconds

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How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military

Published: Aug. 20, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 52 seconds

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The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'

Published: Aug. 17, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds

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The congressman who shot a waiter

Published: Aug. 16, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds

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The time Truman met with Stalin and it went well

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 50 seconds

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Meet Paul Manaforts century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits

Published: Aug. 14, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 52 seconds

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An aviation flop was a stamp collectors dream and the U.S. Postal Services nightmare

Published: Aug. 13, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 53 seconds

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How Mister Rogers talked to children and families about tragedy

Published: Aug. 10, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 28 seconds

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The storied past of Alderson federal womens prison

Published: Aug. 9, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds

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Rebels, turn out your dead!

Published: Aug. 8, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds

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The Saturday Night Massacre

Published: Aug. 7, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds

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The dark history of the pill

Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds

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Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office

Published: Aug. 3, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

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The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement

Published: Aug. 2, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 37 seconds

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How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began

Published: Aug. 1, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 48 seconds

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The first campus shooting

Published: July 31, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 15 seconds

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How God became part of the pledge

Published: July 30, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 25 seconds

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How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini

Published: July 27, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds

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The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools

Published: July 26, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 58 seconds

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The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing

Published: July 25, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 40 seconds

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The rainless flood that destroyed a city

Published: July 24, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 41 seconds

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How a renovation made the Supreme Court a friendlier place

Published: July 23, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 29 seconds

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The epic bender that launched America

Published: July 13, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds

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A Supreme Court justice morally opposed abortion, but voted to legalize it

Published: July 12, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds

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Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career

Published: July 11, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds

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Oregon, Americas first and only state to begin as "whites-only"

Published: July 10, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 53 seconds

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How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady

Published: July 9, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds

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The time America invaded Britain

Published: July 6, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 16 seconds

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The teen who tied a Virginia election

Published: July 5, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds

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Thomas Jefferson's last letter

Published: July 4, 2018, 1:18 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds

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The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die

Published: July 3, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 9 seconds

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The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space

Published: July 2, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 55 seconds

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That time we thought an asteroid might kill us all

Published: June 29, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 22 seconds

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The femme fatale

Published: June 28, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 5 seconds

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The first congresswomans vote

Published: June 27, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds

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How Hollywoods first major blockbuster revived the KKK

Published: June 26, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 35 seconds

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The first pride parade

Published: June 25, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds

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The oldest surviving banjo recording

Published: June 22, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds

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The worst presidents

Published: June 21, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds

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Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods

Published: June 20, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds

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The first shark attacks

Published: June 19, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds

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Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet

Published: June 18, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 19 seconds

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This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him

Published: June 15, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds

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Thomas Jeffersons iftar dinner and the long history of Ramadan at the White House

Published: June 14, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 11 seconds

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The biscuit tin

Published: June 13, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds

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Before Loving, another interracial couple fought to marry

Published: June 12, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 50 seconds

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The Jedwabne massacre

Published: June 11, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 42 seconds

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Tennis's first goddess

Published: June 8, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds

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The White House makeover

Published: June 7, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds

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The Order of the Day

Published: June 6, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds

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The temporary insanity legal defense started with an affair

Published: June 5, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds

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Historys most fascinating misquote

Published: June 4, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds

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Mourning Bobby Kennedy

Published: June 1, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 30 seconds

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The black power protest that shook the world

Published: May 31, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 57 seconds

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LBJ's political bombshell

Published: May 30, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 4 seconds

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One broadcast helped turn Americans against the Vietnam War

Published: May 29, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 45 seconds

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The performance that saved Johnny Cash's career

Published: May 28, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 52 seconds

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Publishers hated A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections

Published: May 25, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 4 seconds

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When Ronald Reagan visited a family targeted by the KKK

Published: May 24, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

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The Nazi stone

Published: May 23, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 20 seconds

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Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party

Published: May 22, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds

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The man who filmed JFK's assassination

Published: May 21, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds

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Princess Diana's final hours

Published: May 18, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 1 second

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The enigmatic Prince Philip - separating fact from fiction

Published: May 17, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds

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Wallis Simpson, the last American divorcee who married a British royal

Published: May 16, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 37 seconds

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The truth is out there

Published: May 15, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 38 seconds

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John Brown's prophecy

Published: May 14, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds

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She spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it

Published: May 11, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 21 seconds

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The Sullivan brothers

Published: May 10, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds

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Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy

Published: May 9, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 54 seconds

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To ban a "Mockingbird"

Published: May 8, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 4 seconds

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The original Alcoholics Anonymous book was auctioned for millions, but its author was never paid

Published: May 7, 2018, 9:19 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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May the Fourth be with you

Published: May 4, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 6 seconds

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The battle between Old Waddy and the press

Published: May 3, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds

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Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?

Published: May 2, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 59 seconds

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Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant

Published: May 1, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds

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How the Doomsday Clock came to be

Published: April 30, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 53 seconds

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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day was once just for daughters

Published: April 27, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 46 seconds

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These guys were college jocks - and then became Presidents of the United States

Published: April 26, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds

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The only person Hitler loved

Published: April 25, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 37 seconds

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Philadelphia's plumbing revolution: wood pipes

Published: April 24, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 8 seconds

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Chillicothe, Missouri, the town that invented sliced bread

Published: April 23, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 37 seconds

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Barbara Bushs remarkable commencement address

Published: April 20, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 10 seconds

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The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon

Published: April 19, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 45 seconds

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The history of epic North Korean insults

Published: April 18, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds

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Hate the IRS? Blame Abraham Lincoln.

Published: April 17, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 36 seconds

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The mother who made George Washington miserable

Published: April 16, 2018, 11:36 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 30 seconds

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Why Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history

Published: April 13, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds

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A letter from home

Published: April 12, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 31 seconds

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Was Mary Todd Lincoln a leaker?

Published: April 11, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 6 seconds

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Winifred Stanley, a forgotten equal pay pioneer

Published: April 10, 2018, 9:08 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 28 seconds

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The invention of sarin

Published: April 9, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds

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The spy plane

Published: April 6, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 9 seconds

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The toughest job in politics

Published: April 5, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 58 seconds

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The day Martin Luther King Jr. died

Published: April 4, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 3 seconds

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The Mountaintop

Published: April 3, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds

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The books the presidents read

Published: April 2, 2018, 5:47 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds

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Egg Roll

Published: March 30, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 52 seconds

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The girl who struck out Babe Ruth

Published: March 29, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 9 seconds

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The first daughters

Published: March 28, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 2 seconds

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Meet the Press

Published: March 27, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds

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The man who won World War II

Published: March 26, 2018, 9:12 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds

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The children's crusade

Published: March 23, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 6 seconds

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The forbidden question

Published: March 22, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 34 seconds

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The crooked picture

Published: March 21, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes

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Lawn wars

Published: March 20, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds

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Dr. Spock

Published: March 19, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 17 seconds

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Then they came for me

Published: March 16, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds

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The godfather of bracketology

Published: March 15, 2018, 6:59 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 51 seconds

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The Limping Lady

Published: March 14, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 44 seconds

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The first female marine

Published: March 13, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 37 seconds

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The trials and tribulations of being a cat

Published: March 12, 2018, 7 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 52 seconds

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Fall back, spring forward

Published: March 9, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes

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The glass ceiling

Published: March 8, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 22 seconds

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How are you, Grandmama?

Published: March 7, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 33 seconds

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The night America burned

Published: March 6, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 37 seconds

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And the winner is...

Published: March 5, 2018, 8:11 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 51 seconds

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Special delivery!

Published: March 2, 2018, 10:24 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds

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The woman behind Lisa Ben

Published: March 1, 2018, 5:54 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 56 seconds

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The houses built by slaves

Published: Feb. 28, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 13 seconds

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How the NRA began

Published: Feb. 27, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds

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The rise of supermarkets

Published: Feb. 26, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 20 seconds

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The Green Book

Published: Feb. 23, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 21 seconds

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The ice queen

Published: Feb. 22, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 56 seconds

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Mrs. Graham

Published: Feb. 21, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 31 seconds

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The electric rivalry

Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds

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All the president's ghosts

Published: Feb. 19, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds

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Don't mess with Harriet Tubman

Published: Feb. 16, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds

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When Olympic silver beats gold

Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 57 seconds

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The most romantic day

Published: Feb. 14, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 41 seconds

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The best birthday card ever

Published: Feb. 13, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds

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What hath God wrought?

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 8 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 8 seconds

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Introducing 'Retropod'

Published: Feb. 7, 2018, 10:10 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 40 seconds

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