Conquering Polio | The March of Dimes | 1
In the summer of 1921, 39-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt was on vacation with his family when he developed a fever, muscle aches, and chills. Pain spread to his legs, and soon, he was paralyzed fr...
7 Tammi 40min
The Ice King | Slippery Business | 3
By 1816, Frederic Tudor had spent a decade shipping New England ice to Cuba—with little to show for it. Setbacks and vanished profits nearly ruined him, and a gamble on shipping tropical fruit had lef...
24 Joulu 202533min
The Ice King | No Joke | 1
In 1801, a young Boston merchant named Frederic Tudor made a life-changing visit to Cuba. There he had a wildly ambitious idea: he would ship New England ice to the sweltering Caribbean, where no one ...
10 Joulu 202535min
The Mayflower | The Thanksgiving Myth | 5
In 1620 the Pilgrims arrived in a land already shaped by centuries of Native history. For the people who lived there, the Wampanoag, it was Patuxet—a place with its own stories, its own politics, and,...
3 Joulu 202539min
History Daily: The Assassination of Sergei Kirov
December 1, 1934. Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated by a lone gunman, giving Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin the justification to purge the Communist Party of his rivals.You can listen ad-free...
1 Joulu 202520min
The Mayflower | Cutthroats | 4
In May 1622, the Pilgrims were still reeling from Squanto’s betrayal when a ship appeared in Plymouth Harbor, carrying an advance party for a rival English colony. Governor William Bradford reluctantl...
26 Marras 202535min
History Daily: Darwin’s Origin of Species
November 24, 1859. Charles Darwin sparks a scientific revolution by introducing the theory of evolution in his book On the Origin of Species.You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. ...
24 Marras 202515min
