Nazi Propaganda & The American Mirror
The word propaganda began as something holy. In sixteen twenty-two a committee of cardinals in Rome coined it to mean the spreading of the faith, and in this episode I follow that single word as it cu...
1 Heinä 1h 4min
The Villisca Axe Murders
On the night of June 9, 1912, in the small railroad town of Villisca, Iowa, someone walked into the home of Josiah and Sarah Moore and killed all eight people sleeping inside. The parents. Their four ...
28 Kesä 55min
The Lovelock Giant Legend
In the high desert of Nevada, about twenty miles south of the town of Lovelock, a dry limestone cave holds one of the richest archaeological records in the American West — and one of the most stubborn...
26 Kesä 1h 4min
Clinton, Area 51, and the Search for UFO Secrets
What happens when the most powerful man in the world asks his own government a direct question and still can't get a straight answer? When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, he wanted to know two thing...
24 Kesä 1h 3min
Walt Disney: The Man Behind The Mouse
Walt Disney built the most trusted brand in the world, and he built it on top of a story the company has spent eighty years hoping you would never hear. Behind the castle, the cardigan, and the warm M...
19 Kesä 1h 2min
Did Lyndon B. Johnson Help Kill JFK?
The murder of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November twenty-second, nineteen sixty-three remains the most contested crime in American history, and at the center of the contest stands the man who became...
17 Kesä 59min
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 documented corruption than any presidency of the nineteenth ...
14 Kesä 1h 17min
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 citizens. He could prove it, because the bodies were ...
12 Kesä 1h 12min
