Ronald Reagan: Presidency Off the Books
In the late afternoon of November twenty-first, 1986, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall stood inside an office a short walk from the Oval Office and fed classified doc...
20 Maj 1h 4min
Abraham Lincoln and the Dakota Thirty-Eight
On the day after Christmas, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged from a single scaffold in Mankato, Minnesota. It remains the largest mass execution in American history. The man who signed the order was Ab...
17 Maj 1h 4min
Andrew Jackson: Democracy, Blood, and the Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson sold himself as the champion of the common man. His face has been on the twenty dollar bill since 1928. There are statues of him in city squares from Tennessee to Washington. He's been ...
15 Maj 1h 4min
The Dozier School for Boys
This episode contains discussion of child abuse, physical and sexual violence against minors, and descriptions of deaths in state custody. Listener discretion is advised.For more than a century, the s...
13 Maj 1h 2min
The Real "Wild West"
The Wild West most of us inherited is a marketing campaign. The cowboy in the lighter hat, the noble sheriff, the high-noon duel in a dusty street — those came out of dime novels, traveling shows, and...
10 Maj 1h 24min
The Resurrection Men in America
For most of the nineteenth century, American medicine had a problem nobody wanted to talk about. The medical schools needed bodies. There was no legal way to get them. So a quiet trade grew up in the ...
8 Maj 1h 11min
The Forgotten Horror of the Lake Shawnee
A man bought a piece of land in southern West Virginia in nineteen twenty-six and built an amusement park on it. He didn't know what was already there. He didn't know what was going to come. This epis...
6 Maj 1h 3min
The Real Stranger Things?
What if Stranger Things wasn't science fiction? What if the show that became one of the biggest cultural phenomena of the last decade started as a real story, set in a real place, about a real abando...
4 Maj 1h 15min
