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History Dispatches — 371 episodes
Boxers, Briefs, Corsets and Codpieces – introducing You’re Dead To Me
Rocket Mail: when the Postal Service attempted to deliver mail via cruise missile
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus: One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Blucifer - The Demon Horse of Denver International Airport
How Star Wars almost never happened - Part 2
How Star Wars almost never happened - Part 1
Story of the Polygraph
Roger Bannister and the 4-minute mile
Sliced Bread and the time it was banned
WebcamGate - The High School Spying Scandal
The Defenestrations of Prague - How throwing someone out a window sparked a religious war
ParaBeavers - Idaho’s Parachuting Beavers
1975 LaGuardia Airport Bombing
The History of Calvin and Hobbes
The life - and afterlife - of Henrietta Lacks
Madoc and Welsh Indians
Hay Meadow Massacre
Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in history
History of the QWERTY Keyboard
The Colossus of Rhode: The greatest statue of the ancient world
Flint Water Crisis
The Truth Behind Troy
Battle of Tsushima: the birth of modern naval warfare
The Land Lobster: The world's rarest insect
Navajo Code Talkers
The Paraguayan War: South America's Deadliest War
Jonathan the Tortoise: The world's oldest living land animal
Alexis St. Martin and the gunshot that changed science
Marcus Aurelius: The philosopher emperor
Project Habakkuk: the iceberg aircraft carrier
10-Cent Beer Night: What could go wrong?
Shroud of Turin: Unraveling the truth
North Sentinel Island: The World's Most Isolated People
Curse of Tippecanoe: The Deadly Presidential Prophecy
Viking Shield Maidens: Fact, Fiction, or Both?
The Centennial Light: The Bulb That Refused to Burn Out
Haymarket Affair: Blood, Bombs, and Labor Rights
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Wonder or Myth?
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Encore)
The 335 Year War (Encore)
The Rosetta Stone - the Key to Unlocking Egypt's Past (Encore)
Catacombs of Paris (Encore)
Bobbi Gibb - the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon (Encore)
Last of the Mammoths
Battle of the Bogside
Typhoid Mary
Church of Bones - Sedlec Ossuary
American War Movies
Apollo 1 Disaster
Max von Pettenkofer - the Father of Modern Hygiene
Exploding Whale of Florence
The Frank Slide
Henry Knox and the Guns of Ticonderoga
Sergeant Gander
Oseberg Viking Ship
Christ College Fire of 1867
Gargoyles
Goiânia Cesium 137 Incident
Owney the Postal Dog
History of the Marathon
Anna May Wong
Pirate Movies
Reconquista
Purchase of Alaska
Silver Mines of Athens
Silver Mines of Potosi
Gregorian Calendar
Piasa - Monster of the Mississippi
Hopewell Earthworks
El Palo Alto
The Original Ponzi Scheme
Indestructible Jack Lucas
The East German Hot Air Balloon Escape
War of the Golden Stool
Milwaukee Bridge War
Florentine Diamond
St. Olga of Kyiv
Cher Ami - the Hero Pigeon
Ocracoke Island Cemetery
Haitian Independence Debt
Collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm
Humphrey the Wayward Whale
Doctor Riots of 1788
Katyn Massacre
Johnny Ramensky: the Gentleman Safecracker
Monet Izabeth – the first American woman to ski solo, and unsupported, to the South Pole
Berlin Airlift
Saint Patrick's Battalion
Nazca Lines
Patriot War
Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues
Esperanto Language
The Story of Gunpowder
Berlin Wall
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The Birdman of Coorong - John Francis Peggoty
A Year of Mistakes
Charles Whitman: The Texas Tower Sniper
Pyramids of Meroë
Greensboro Sit-ins
War of the Worlds Broadcast
Dolly the Sheep
Destruction of Melos
Whisky War
Pride Flag
History of the Oreo
Did Shakespeare Write Shakespeare?
Mansa Musa - the Richest Man in History
Adolf Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch
Kush
White Squirrels of Olney
Heirlooms of Dunvegan
Panmunjom Axe Murder Incident
Wax Cylinders: The First Commercial Audio Medium
Emilio Carranza - the Lindbergh of Mexico
Why Bananas Used to be Better
Monitor vs Merrimack - Battle of the Ironclads
Spartacus
St. Valentine's Day
Stockholm Bloodbath
Rachel Wall - America's First Female Pirate
Discovery of Insulin
Assassination of Lord Mountbatten
Adam's Peak
William Henry Harrison
Lonnie Johnson - Inventor of the Super Soaker
Project Azorian
Cat Island
Jimmy Carter Rabbit Attack
Pepsi Points Jet Fighter Lawsuit
Mad Trapper of the Rat River
If Day - the Mock Nazi Invasion of Winnipeg
Champ: The Lake Champlain Sea Serpent
India Pale Ale
Vasaloppet
Pig War
Dodo Bird
Battle of Suomussalmi
Three Mile Island Accident
Betsy Ross Flag
North Pond Hermit
Amber Room
Kate Warne: America's First Female Private Detective
Andrew Johnson's Drunken Vice-Presidential Inaugural Address
Operation Everglades
Blood in the Water Polo Match
John Frum Cargo Cult
Battle of Lake Erie
Green Children of Woolpit
Bouvet Island - the most isolated island in the world
Death of Sigurd Eysteinsson
Raft of the Medusa
Robert Smalls
Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs
Prohibition
James R. Vineyard - The man who shot and killed a fellow legislator - and got away with it
Krampus
Ghost Fleet of the Potomac
Harry Colebourn and a bear named Winnie
Radium Girls
How the French Stole Christmas
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Eradication of the Guinea Worm
Origins of Dungeons & Dragons
The Rif War
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Spruce Goose
Sink the Bismarck
The Amazing Life of Ima Hogg
Sterling Hall Bombing
Rafael Hernández Marín
Hodag
Battle of Cannae
Adolf Lindstrøm - the Polar Chef
Treaty of Breda
History of Grog
Great Raft of the Red River
James Bond in Film
Deborah Sampson - America's First Female Soldier
Lascaux Cave
Concord Video Game Flop
Nellie Bly
William Buckley - The Wild Man of the Australian Wilderness
Resolute Desk
Joan Anderson - The Hula Hoop Queen
Vikings of Greenland
John Basilone
Blarney Stone
James Holman - the Blind Traveler
H.L. Hunley
Hoover Flight Promotion Fiasco
History of Legos
John F. Kennedy and PT-109
History of Zombies
Gimli Glider
Eradication of the Screwworm Fly
Establishment of Liberia
Erfurt Latrine disaster
Oleg Gordievsky - MI6's most valuable Cold War Spy
St. Guinefort the Greyhound
Tarrare - the World's Hungriest Man
Rosie Ruiz and the Boston Marathon Fraud
Julius Caesar and the Pirates
Battle of Mers-el-Kébir
Beautiful Jim Key
Grace Hopper
Cottingley Fairies
Bloody Monday
Big Booms - Compilation
Pest Control - Compilation
Tales from Ancient Egypt - Compilation
Athenian Adventures - Compilation
Historic Heists - Compilation
The European Theater of World War II
Bob Beamon
Alcibiades
Beast of Gévaudan
Burma-Shave
Bleeding Kansas
The Great Sphinx of Giza
Enron Scandal
Trial of the Amistad
Revolt on the Amistad
Battle of Teutoburg Forest
Spice Islands
Gombe Chimp War
Moina Michael: the Poppy Lady
The Pepsi Navy
The Near Extinction of the Bison
The Battle of Fishguard: The Last Invasion of Britain
The Cardiff Giant: Archeology's Greatest Hoax
St. Albans Raid - The Civil War's Northern Most Battle
Devils Tower
The 335 Year War
The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters
The Accidental Discovery of Penicillin
Siege of Fort Pulaski
United States Camel Corps
Battle of New Orleans
New Coke
Fighting Jack Churchill
Mike the Headless Chicken
Mysterious Origins of the Newport Tower
History of Chess
Eddie Gaedel: The Smallest Player in Baseball History
Year of the Four Emperors
Remember the Maine!
504 Protest
The Great Zimbabwe
The Battle Over Parker Dam
Discovery of the Venus de Milo
The History of Pad Thai
Battle of Adwa
Mountain Meadows Massacre
CIA Attempts to Assassinate Fidel Castro
Battle of Bunker Hill
Ned Kelly: Australia's Most Notorious Outlaw
1904 Olympic Marathon
John Colter's Run
The Mystery of the Tunguska Incident
Knights Templar
Project Isabela: The Galapagos Goat War
Assassination attempt of Teddy Roosevelt
Versailles Rail Accident
Jack Black: The Greatest Rat Catcher
Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska and the "horrible hand" dinosaur
The Lost Episodes of Doctor Who
The Caravel
Carry Nation: The Temperance Movement's Hatchet Granny
History of the Periodic Table of Elements
Mystery of the Mary Celeste
Boudica - The Celtic Warrior Queen
Carol Kaye: First Lady on Bass
Broken Arrow: Americas Missing Nukes
The Coelacanth: Discovery of a Living Fossil
Catacombs of Paris
Lost Army of Cambyses
Hildegard of Bingen: The Mystic Visionary Nun
The Execution of King Louis XVI - From History Daily
Nathan Hale
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Edward Carter: The Long Road to a Congressional Medal of Honor Award
Pope Joan: The Legendary Female Pope
Adventures of the Stanley Cup
Leaning Tower of Pisa
World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle
Billy Possum
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
History of the Lobotomy
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Magawa: The Hero Rat
Book of Kells
Disco Demolition Night
Charles Gordon and the Siege of Khartoum
Great Molasses Flood
Iron Brigade
When the Creator of Sherlock Holmes Saved a Man from Prison
The Goat Who Sailed Around the World - Twice
Sicilian Expedition
Doctor Samuel Mudd
Kemper Rebellion of 1804
Heist of the Stone of Scone
Stone of Scone
Great Smog of London
Battle of Karánsebes: When the Austrian Army Attacked Itself
The Teddy Bear
The Denver Spiderman
Halifax Explosion
The Liberty Bell
Robert Emmet and the Speech from the Dock
Theft of the Mona Lisa
Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Pony Express
Ark of the Covenant
Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
Divorce of Catherine of Aragon
Moctezuma's Gold
The Peshtigo Fire - History's Deadliest Wildfire
Great Chicago Fire
Thrasybulus - the man who saved Athenian democracy
The Death of Glenn Miller
Zheng Yi Sao - the Pirate Queen of Southeast Asia
1883 Eruption of Krakatoa
The Pleasant Valley War - America's Bloodiest Family Feud
Wu Zetian - China's Only Female Emperor
Joshua Glover: Freedom Found
The Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
Jan Žižka - the one-eyed general who never lost a battle
The Kyūjō Incident - the coup that almost extended World War II
The Cod Wars - The battle for fishing rights in the North Atlantic
Bobbi Gibb - the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon
The Zimmerman Telegram - the note that brought America into World War I
William Walker and the Filibuster War
Enheduanna: History's First Author
Captain Vernice Armour: The first African American female combat pilot
1527 Sack of Rome
Anders' Exiled Polish Army of WWII
Sidi Mubarak Bombay
Alfred the Great and the Great Heathen Army
The Rosetta Stone - the Key to Unlocking Egypt's Past
Johnny Appleseed
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
The Battle of Blair Mountain - America's Largest Labor Uprising
The Heist of the Irish Crown Jewels
Alberta Rat Campaign
Kensington Runestone
Battle of Castle Itter
Bessie Coleman - the First African-American Pilot
The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
Alfred Nobel and the Creation of Dynamite
Stonewall Riots
Monopoly - The Surprising History of the World's most Famous Game
Black Bart - the Wild West's Gentleman Bandit
Battle of Stamford Bridge
The Ice Bowl - Football's Most Famous Clash on the Frozen Tundra
Video Game Crash of 1983
The Opium Wars
Henry Avery and the Greatest Pirate Raid in History
Alexander Selkirk - the Real Robinson Crusoe
Library of Alexandria
Drake's Brass Plate - Relic or Hoax?
Rosa Parks
The Head of Oliver Cromwell
The Dancing Plague of 1518
Junko Tabei - the First Woman to Summit Mount Everest
Wojtek the Bear
The Great Emu War
Saint Patrick: The Man Behind the Legend
Introducing History Dispatches