The History of Scientology
Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, who published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health in 1950, promoting a system he claimed could cure psyc...
9 Sep 202511min
The 1932 Battle of Washington D.C.
In 1932, during the depths of the Great Depression, roughly 17,000 World War I veterans, known as the Bonus Army, marched on Washington, D.C., demanding early payment of a promised service bonus not d...
8 Sep 202513min
TODAY IN CONTEXT: U.S. Presidents' History of Urban Interventions
TODAY IN CONTEXT BONUS EPISODE: President Trump's recent call for federal intervention in Chicago sparked widespread backlash... Today's Bonus episode traces this moment through U.S. history, from the...
7 Sep 202513min
Secret WW2: Operation Himmler
LIMITED SERIES 11: SECRET WW2 - Operation Himmler was a covert Nazi German operation in 1939 designed to fabricate Polish aggression against Germany, using staged attacks on German territory as a pret...
7 Sep 202512min
Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery
In 1893, amid a severe economic depression, President Grover Cleveland secretly underwent surgery aboard a yacht to remove a cancerous tumor from his mouth, a procedure kept hidden from the public to ...
6 Sep 202510min
Conversations: Revisiting the Last Year of the American Civil War, w/ Scott Ellsworth
In this captivating episode, we sit down with historian Scott Ellsworth to discuss his latest book, Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth...
5 Sep 202522min
Ghiberti vs. Brunelleschi
The Florentine Renaissance saw two of its greatest minds, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi, locked in a fierce competition: Ghiberti ultimately won the commission for the elaborate bronze doo...
4 Sep 202513min
Mystery of Evita's Corpse
After her death in 1952, Argentine First Lady Eva "Evita" Perón was embalmed in an elaborate process that preserved her body almost perfectly, making her one of the most famously mummified figures of ...
3 Sep 202512min
