The Ice King | No Joke | 1
In 1801, a young Boston merchant named Frederic Tudor made a life-changing visit to Cuba. There he had a wildly ambitious idea: he would ship New England ice to the sweltering Caribbean, where no one ...
10 Dec 202535min
The Mayflower | The Thanksgiving Myth | 5
In 1620 the Pilgrims arrived in a land already shaped by centuries of Native history. For the people who lived there, the Wampanoag, it was Patuxet—a place with its own stories, its own politics, and,...
3 Dec 202539min
History Daily: The Assassination of Sergei Kirov
December 1, 1934. Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated by a lone gunman, giving Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin the justification to purge the Communist Party of his rivals.You can listen ad-free...
1 Dec 202520min
The Mayflower | Cutthroats | 4
In May 1622, the Pilgrims were still reeling from Squanto’s betrayal when a ship appeared in Plymouth Harbor, carrying an advance party for a rival English colony. Governor William Bradford reluctantl...
26 Nov 202535min
History Daily: Darwin’s Origin of Species
November 24, 1859. Charles Darwin sparks a scientific revolution by introducing the theory of evolution in his book On the Origin of Species.You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. ...
24 Nov 202515min
The Mayflower | The First Thanksgiving | 3
"The winter of 1620-21 took a deadly toll on Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims had only just begun to construct their homes when illness began spreading through the settlement. Their flimsy shelters offer...
19 Nov 202534min
The Mayflower | A Sea of Troubles | 2
"In the fall of 1620, the Mayflower embarked on a 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Over the next nine weeks, its passengers and crew battled fierce storms and rampant illness. They had le...
12 Nov 202535min
The Mayflower | Saints and Strangers | 1
In the early 1600s, an orphaned teenager named William Bradford joined a clandestine congregation of passionate Puritan worshipers in the village of Scrooby, England. Every Sunday, he met in secret wi...
5 Nov 202533min
