
EPCOT
Alaina continues her Disney Parks series with an episode on Walt Disney World Resort's second gate: Epcot. Walt Disney's original idea for all that Florida land was a planned city so unique that the w...
17 Jan 20171h 23min

A Look Back at '16
Happy New Year! Our New Year's special has two topics for you. First, Grant takes us back to 1816, the Year Without a Summer, to tell the story behind the story of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometh...
3 Jan 20171h 5min

The Battle of Michigan Avenue
In 1968, the Democratic Party nominated a loyal member of the party leadership that did not reflect their members' views and could not present a compelling vision of the future. Meanwhile, prophesies ...
20 Des 20161h 14min

The Sound of Music
It's the Holidays, and we'd like to share one of our traditions with you. Alaina tells us about the creation of a classic film, The Sound of Music. First, we delve into the creation of the fictional f...
6 Des 20161h 10min

The Chicago Cubs
Sometimes, when you're talking about history, it happens right in front of you. Grant takes hold of the one good thing to happen in this God-forsaken year and goes back to the 1870s to see how it all ...
22 Nov 20161h 21min

Firsthand Philadelphia
Alaina and Grant return home from Philadelphia and the Wyoming Valley to tell tales of all they learned. Is there a minimum length for a street? Or minimum a width? What DIDN'T Benjamin Franklin do? W...
8 Nov 20161h 23min

Haunted Honeys - Chicago Spookums
Welcome to our bone-chilling Halloween special! Alaina teaches us about haunted hotels, haunted graveyards, and other spookum-scarems in the Windy City. Links: Suffragists protesting Wilson in fro...
25 Okt 20161h 16min

John Jay
America's founders have been immortalized, lionized, and mythologized; but one seems to have fallen through the cracks. Grant shares what he's learned about John Jay, the forgotten father. Was he inst...
11 Okt 20161h 6min



















