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
Kentucky Blood Feud - The Revenge of Bad Tom Baker | 2
The Civil War forced the warring families of Clay County into an uneasy truce. The Garrards, Whites, Howards, and Bakers found themselves allied as they fought for the Union. But the war brought new c...
18 Dec 201937min
Kentucky Blood Feud - The Murder of Daniel Bates | 1
The longest and bloodiest feud in American history erupted in the 1840s in Clay County, Kentucky — where it raged for nearly a century and ultimately claimed more than 150 lives. The Clay County War, ...
11 Dec 201934min
The Legacy of The Triangle Fire | 5
In September 2019 Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren invoked the memory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire at a campaign rally just a few blocks from the site of fire ...
20 Nov 201939min
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - In America They Don’t Let You Burn | 4
In the wake of the biggest workplace catastrophe in the city of New York, the survivors of the Triangle fire and the families of the victims could only watch from the sidelines as the case against the...
13 Nov 201941min
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Sixteen Minutes | 3
Two years after the labor strikes that shook the city of New York, the workers of Triangle factory returned to better wages and lower hours. But when a fire broke out near closing time on a Saturday a...
6 Nov 201937min
