Encore: What We Learned from Fighting the Spanish Flu | 1
In light of growing concerns about the coronavirus, we’re revisiting an episode we ran last spring. One hundred years ago, the Spanish flu pandemic forever reshaped the way the United States responds ...
11 Mar 202047min
Tulsa Race Massacre Update: Excavating Mass Graves | 7
New archaeological evidence suggests mass graves holding the remains of victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre may exist on two sites in Tulsa. And now scientists plan to excavate portions of those sites ...
4 Mar 202037min
California Water Wars - Los Angeles and the Future of Water | 6
UCLA environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses Los Angeles, its never-quenched thirst for water, and what that means for the future.Support us by supporting our sponsors!See Privacy Policy at ...
26 Feb 202040min
California Water Wars - Collapse | 5
With the failure of the Watterson brothers’ banks, the Owens Valley community was forced to abandon its fight for water rights against the city of Los Angeles. William Mulholland, the Los Angeles wate...
19 Feb 202037min
California Water Wars - We Who Are About to Die Salute You | 4
After years of letting their water be used by the city of Los Angeles, the farmers and ranchers of the Owens River Valley decided to fight back. What would come to be known as California’s Civil War w...
12 Feb 202037min
California Water Wars - “There It Is—Take It” | 3
By 1912, the Los Angeles aqueduct project was nearing completion. But as it approached the finish line, fears were growing among the public of a vast conspiracy, fanned by socialist Job Harriman. With...
5 Feb 202037min
California Water Wars - Building the Dream | 2
By 1907, the city of Los Angeles had found a solution to its water problem. Two hundred miles north in the Owens River Valley was a never-ending source of water. Los Angeles Water Department superinte...
29 Jan 202037min
California Water Wars - A River in the Desert | 1
By the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles had grown from a dusty, crime-ridden pueblo into a thriving metropolis. The only problem was that it was growing too fast. With no consistently reliab...
22 Jan 202036min
