Buffalo Soldiers | Cadets of Courage | 2
In May 1870, James Webster Smith arrived in West Point, New York, in the hopes of becoming the first Black cadet to attend the U.S. Military Academy. While facing West Point’s famously difficult curri...
12 Feb 202538min
History Daily: David Bowie Becomes Ziggy Stardust
February 10, 1972. When his music career begins to stagnate, David Bowie reinvents himself with an alien alter-ego he names Ziggy Stardust.You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or...
10 Feb 202515min
Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1
In the spring of 1865, with the Civil War finally over, American lawmakers began to debate whether Black soldiers would have a permanent place in the peacetime Army. Some 180,000 Black men had fought ...
5 Feb 202538min
The Irish Famine Relief Mission | Ship of Hope | 1
In the winter of 1846, Irish immigrants in America began to hear troubling news from their home country: a potato famine was ravaging the countryside and driving desperate farmers and families into th...
29 Jan 202539min
History Daily: The End of the Siege of Leningrad
January 27, 1944. Soviet forces defeat the German army outside Leningrad, ending an 872-day siege.You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or for all that and more, go to IntoHistory...
27 Jan 202515min
The Wright Brothers | Controlling the Skies | 4
Before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903, other air enthusiasts had tried to find the answer to powered, controlled human flight. And once Wilbur and Orvill...
22 Jan 202540min
The Wright Brothers | Coming Down to Earth | 3
In the summer of 1908, Wilbur Wright amazed crowds in France with his aerobatic flying demonstrations, and Orville made daring flights at a U.S. Army base in Virginia. The press in Europe and America ...
15 Jan 202538min
History Daily: The Sole Survivor of the Retreat from Kabul
January 13, 1842. William Brydon is the last man standing after a disastrous British army retreat during the First Anglo-Afghan War.You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or for al...
13 Jan 202516min
