Dutch Manhattan - The One-Legged Soldier | 5
Peter Stuyvesant was fresh from losing a leg in battle against the Spanish when he arrived in Manhattan in 1647. He was a tough soldier who was ready to take charge of the unruly population of New Ams...
2 Okt 201936min
Dutch Manhattan - The Sheriff Comes to Town | 4
Just as it was becoming a New World success story, disaster came to New Amsterdam. Willem Kieft, the Dutch leader appointed by the West India Trading Company, declared war on local tribes, sending sol...
25 Sep 201937min
Dutch Manhattan - Pirates and Prostitutes | 3
New Amsterdam was a desperate place. For the first decade of its existence, the Dutch city on the tip of Manhattan Island served as a haven for pirates, prostitutes and smugglers. That was because the...
18 Sep 201935min
Dutch Manhattan - Buying Manhattan | 2
Twelve years after Henry Hudson's 1609 trip charting the Hudson River, the Dutch used his voyage as the basis for a new colony, which would be wedged between the English colonies in New England and Vi...
11 Sep 201935min
Dutch Manhattan - Henry Hudson’s Big Mistake | 1
In 1609, a headstrong English sea captain named Henry Hudson set out on behalf of the Dutch East India Company to find a trade route to Asia — and promptly found himself and his crew stranded in icy w...
4 Sep 201935min
Remembering Emmett Till | 7
The murder of Emmett Till galvanized the nascent civil rights movement. But the full story of what happened in Money, Miss., on August 28, 1955, is significantly different than the narrative that emer...
28 Aug 201937min
The Bastard Brigade - Showdown in the Alps | 6
The Alsos mission had a hard-charging leader in Boris Pash and an eccentric band of recruits. But if the so-called Bastard Brigade was going to track down the Nazi atomic bomb, they would also need sc...
21 Aug 201939min
The Bastard Brigade - The Most Wanted Men | 5
As the Nazis inched closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon, panic grew among the Allied forces. The Alsos Mission — otherwise known as the Bastard Brigade — was put in charge of gathering intelligence o...
14 Aug 201939min
