Andrew Jackson: Democracy, Blood, and the Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson sold himself as the champion of the common man. His face has been on the twenty dollar bill since 1928. There are statues of him in city squares from Tennessee to Washington. He's been ...
15 Touko 1h 4min
The Dozier School for Boys
This episode contains discussion of child abuse, physical and sexual violence against minors, and descriptions of deaths in state custody. Listener discretion is advised.For more than a century, the s...
13 Touko 1h 2min
The Real "Wild West"
The Wild West most of us inherited is a marketing campaign. The cowboy in the lighter hat, the noble sheriff, the high-noon duel in a dusty street — those came out of dime novels, traveling shows, and...
10 Touko 1h 24min
The Resurrection Men in America
For most of the nineteenth century, American medicine had a problem nobody wanted to talk about. The medical schools needed bodies. There was no legal way to get them. So a quiet trade grew up in the ...
8 Touko 1h 11min
The Forgotten Horror of the Lake Shawnee
A man bought a piece of land in southern West Virginia in nineteen twenty-six and built an amusement park on it. He didn't know what was already there. He didn't know what was going to come. This epis...
6 Touko 1h 3min
The Real Stranger Things?
What if Stranger Things wasn't science fiction? What if the show that became one of the biggest cultural phenomena of the last decade started as a real story, set in a real place, about a real abando...
4 Touko 1h 15min
Diamonds Are Forever
For most of human history, diamonds were genuinely rare. Then in 1867, on a sheep farm near the Orange River in South Africa, a fifteen-year-old boy picked up a shiny pebble that turned out to be a 21...
29 Huhti 1h 8min
Who Found America First: Columbus or the Vikings?
A thousand years before Christopher Columbus saw a light on a Bahamian beach, a small band of Norse settlers stood on the northern tip of Newfoundland, swinging iron axes against fir and juniper trees...
26 Huhti 1h 3min
