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Hometown History — 199 episodes
Bessemer City, North Carolina: The Ballad Singer the Mill Bosses Couldn't Silence
Forsyth County, Georgia: The Town Georgia Tried to Bury Twice
Waterbury, Vermont: The Asylum That Turned a Towns Name Into a Warning
Riceville, Maine: The Ghost Town Whose Plague Never Happened
Prudence Island: The Keeper Who Relit the Light After Losing Everything
Watch Hill, Rhode Island: The Fort Road Massacre That Killed 15
Deal Beach, New Jersey: 240 Immigrants Drowned 150 Yards From Shore
Hazardville, Connecticut: When Gunpowder Made—and Destroyed—a Town
Ord, Nebraska: The Teenage Teacher Who Saved 13 Children in the 1888 Blizzard
Lewistown, Montana: When the Guide Became the Killer (1889)
Globe, Arizona: The Curse of Room 18—Two Miners, One Deadly Room
Taos, New Mexico: The Headless Body in the Fortress Mansion
East Montpelier, Vermont: The 14-Hour Marriage That Ended in Murder
Turtle Lake, North Dakota: The Wolf Family Murders of 1920
Boise City, Oklahoma: The Night America Bombed Its Own Town
Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
Edgefield, South Carolina: The Devil's Bargain Murder Trial of 1850
Hagerstown, Indiana: The Blind Engineer Who Invented Cruise Control
Gay Head, Massachusetts: 103 Souls Lost Half a Mile from Shore
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia: America's Deadliest Industrial Cover-Up
Wheeling, West Virginia: When Steel Workers Became Radio Stars
Erie, Pennsylvania: The Wall of Water That Killed 36
Athens, Tennessee: The 1946 GI Rebellion and the Limits of Armed Reform
Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created the FBI
Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's Disease Colony
Africatown, Alabama: The Last Slave Ship and the Town Built by Survivors
Exeter, Rhode Island: America's Last Vampire Exhumation
Ottawa, Illinois: The Radium Girls' Fight for Justice
Wahpeton, North Dakota: When Lightning Struck the Circus in 1897
Hickory, North Carolina: The 54-Hour Polio Hospital Miracle of 1944
How Wabash, Indiana Saved Its Main Street
American Nursing: How a Profession Was Born from War and Reform
The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale's War on Death
London: The Dark Origins of Nursing
West Virginia: The Vanishing of the Sodder Children
The American West: The Bone Wars of the 1870s
Hollywood's Cursed Film: The Rebel Without a Cause Tragedy
Moscow, Idaho: Psychiana and America's Mail-Order Religion Movement
New York's Greatest Mystery: Judge Crater's Vanishing
How a Telegraph Cable Launched Tiffany & Co. to Fame
Indiana's Ambrose Bierce: The Writer Who Vanished in Mexico, 1913
White Sulphur Springs: Project Greek Island's Secret Congressional Bunker
San Francisco's Great Diamond Hoax of 1872
Homestead, Florida: The Coral Castle Mystery
Paul Revere: Boston's Revolutionary Propagandist
Cleveland's Mad Butcher: The Unsolved Torso Murders
America's Secret Societies: The Benevolent Brotherhood
America's Japanese Internment After Pearl Harbor
America's Youngest Serial Killer: Jesse Pomeroy
When Paradise Becomes Prison: The Rat Utopia Experiment
The USS Cyclops: America's Greatest Naval Mystery
The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism
Three Forgotten Wholesome Stories from America
The Night Doctors: American Medical Terror
The Hollywood Blacklist: When Fear Silenced the Stars
Lewis Howard Latimer: The Genius Behind Edison's Bulb
Hollywood's Scandal That Created Movie Censorship
How Charles Brush Illuminated a City and Changed America Forever
Chicago's Haymarket Affair: The Bloody Birth of May Day
The Philadelphia Experiment: WWII's Invisibility Hoax
The Battle of Alcatraz: Two Days of Violence
Anne Bonny and Mary Read: Caribbean's Female Pirates
Grant's Whiskey Ring: The $3 Million Tax Fraud
Dayton's Project Blue Book: The UFO Investigation
San Jose's Mansion Built to Confuse Ghosts
The First Electric City Tour: Wabash, Indiana (1880)
Baltimore's Underground Railroad Network
Roanoke Island: America's First Vanished Colony
The Scopes Monkey Trial: Evolution on Trial
Chicago's Crime of the Century: Leopold and Loeb
When Jacksonville, Florida Was Hollywood
The Teapot Dome Scandal: When Oil Money Bought Washington
The Kentucky Meat Shower Mystery
Edith Wilson: America's Secret President
Hannah Duston: Colonial America's Dark Heroine
The Met Museum's Dark History of Art Theft
Secrets of the Met Museum: The Humble Beginnings
Virginia Hall: America's Most Dangerous Spy
Project Sunshine: America's Dark Secret
The Night Witches: Soviet Women Who Terrorized the Nazis
North Carolina's Forgotten Gold Rush of 1799
When Washington Poisoned Prohibition Alcoholv
Sweet Success: Milton Hershey's Legacy of Generosity
When Las Vegas Marketed Atomic Bomb Tests
Las Vegas: From Railroad Stop to Sin City
West Baden's Impossible Dome and Hidden Stories
West Baden's Forgotten Palace: The Eighth Wonder of the World
Gus Grissom and the Dawn of American Spaceflight
Baltimore's Clown Who Became a Historian
Terre Haute's Eva Kor: A Holocaust Survivor's Legacy
From Ashes: The CANDLES Museum's Story of Resilience
Terre Haute's Holocaust Museum: Survival and Arson
Florida's Unconquered: The Miccosukee Stand in the Everglades
Bristol: The Twin Towns That Birthed Country Music
Brown County, Indiana: How T.C. Steele Created an American Art Colony
Washington State Gold Panning: Chasing the 1880s Rush in Modern Rivers
Bean Blossom, Indiana: Inside Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Hall of Fame
Spencer County, Indiana: How Lincoln's Boyhood Shaped a President
Lincoln City, Indiana: Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Years, 1816-1830
West Columbia, South Carolina: The 1963 Champions' Field Reborn
West Columbia, South Carolina: The Dust Bowl Champions of 1963
America's Utopian Communes: The Rise and Fall of Radical Communities
New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen's Utopian Community Experiment (1825-1827)
New Harmony, Indiana: The German Commune That Built and Sold a Town
Wabash, Indiana: The 1826 Treaty That Prevented a Frontier War
San Francisco's North Beach: The Beat Generation's Bohemian Heart
San Francisco's Beat Museum: The 1950s Literary Rebellion
Reno, Nevada: The Six-Week Divorce Capital of America
St. George, Utah: Hollywood's Deadliest Film Set
Virginia City, Nevada: The Underground Tunnels Beneath the Silver Boom
Crescent City, California: Surviving Three Devastating Tsunamis
San Juan Islands, Washington: The Pig War's Diplomatic Resolution
San Juan Islands: The Pig War That Nearly Started a US-British Conflict
Desolation Peak, Washington: Jack Kerouac's 63 Days of Solitude
Crater Lake National Park: Oregon's Volcanic Wonder and America's Deepest Lake
Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps: Reviving a Green Legacy
Lake Mead, Nevada: America's Largest Reservoir and Its Shrinking Future
Holiday Crossover Special: A Nightmare Before Halloween, Part 2
Death Valley, California: The Hottest Park and Scenic Nationalism
Grand Canyon, Arizona: The Hidden History Behind an American Icon
Northern California: The 50-Year Fight to Save the Coastal Redwoods
Yellowstone National Park: How Art and Artists Created America's First National Park
Yosemite National Park: America's First Protected Wilderness and Conservation Legacy
Welcome to Hometown History
America's Conservation Presidents: Roosevelt to Carter and the National Park Legacy
Fountain City, Indiana: The Underground Railroad's Grand Central Station
Fountain City, Indiana: The Underground Railroad's Grand Central Station
Nashville, Tennessee: Enslaved Lives at Jackson's Hermitage
Nashville's Hermitage: How Andrew Jackson Built Power Through Slavery
Parker's Crossroads, Tennessee: Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escape
Nashville, Tennessee: The Full-Scale Parthenon Replica of Music City
Memphis, Tennessee: Dewey Phillips and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll Radio
Memphis, Tennessee: Sun Studio's Million Dollar Quartet and Rock's Golden Age
Sun Studio: Where Rock 'n' Roll Was Born
Nashville's Fort Negley: The Fortress That Never Fired a Shot
Memphis: The City That Blues Built
The Wabash Hanging: 6,000 Witnesses (Part 4)
The Trial of John Hubbard: Wabash, Indiana (Part 3)
The Canal Killer of Rich Valley (Part 2)
The French Family Murders of Wabash (Part 1)
The Peshtigo Fire: America's Deadliest Wildfire
Pictured Rocks: Michigan's Climate Refuge (Part 8)
The Quincy Mine: Michigan's Two-Mile Deep Death Trap (Part 7)
The Ghost Town of Gay, Michigan (Part 6)
The Guardian of Phoenix: Michigan's Last General Store (Part 5)
The Ghost Towns of Michigan's Copper Country (Part 4)
The Keweenaw Copper Rush: America's First Mining Boom (Part 3)
The Mackinac Bridge Tragedy (Part 2)
Upper Peninsula: America's Future Refuge (Part 1)
Alcatraz East: Crime Museum in the Smokies
Biltmore Estate: America's Castle & Its WWII Secret
The Cherokee: Saving a Dying Language in North Carolina
The Cherokee's Broken Treaties (Part 1)
Oak Ridge's Secret Army: The Calutron Girls (Part 2)
Oak Ridge: The Secret City That Built the Bomb (Part 1)
Lepa Radić: Yugoslavia's 17-Year-Old Resistance Fighter
Indianapolis Moved a Building (With Workers Inside)
Belle Boyd: The Teenage Spy Who Changed the Civil War
The Friends of Dorothy Investigation
Richmond's Spy Mistress: The Elizabeth Van Lew Story
The Live Burial of Hammond, Indiana
The Princes in the Tower: London's Darkest Royal Mystery
The Key That Didn't Work: Bill Russell in Marion
The Straw Hat Riots of New York
Lincoln's Gettysburg Disaster
The Harvard Soldier Who Hated War
The Courtroom Tragedy: Monica Seles' Near-Fatal Match
Alexandria: Where Washington Changed History
The Marshall House Tragedy: Alexandria's First Civil War Deaths
The Italian Hall Disaster of Calumet
The Potsdam Giants: Prussia's Regiment of Kidnapped Tall Men
Madam C.J. Walker: First Self-Made Millionaire, Part 2
Madam C.J. Walker: From Cotton Fields to Empire (Part 1)
Robert Smalls Stole a Confederate Ship
Dispelling Myths: The "Dumb Blonde" Stereotype
Almeda Huiet: The Forgotten Victim of Rowan, Indiana
Almeda Huiet: H.H. Holmes' Forgotten Victim
The Man Who Darkened His Skin to Fight Racism
Monopoly's Secret Origin: The Woman They Erased
The Cadaver Synod: Rome's Trial of a Dead Pope
Lincoln's Springfield Home: The Man Before the Monument
When the BBC Convinced Millions Spaghetti Grows on Trees
America's First Free Speech Crisis (1798)
Franklin's Turkey: America's Almost National Bird
When More Democracy Means Less Freedom
The Burning Rag: Delaware's Deadly Powder Mills
The Witch of Wall Street: Hetty Green's Story
The Philosopher Who Told Alexander the Great to Move
The Sailor Who Rejected Nazi Germany
The Man Who Could Never Stop Eating
San Francisco's Self-Proclaimed Emperor
Belle Isle: Detroit's Abandoned Paradise
Michigan's Sleeping Bear: A Nazi Ship Still Haunts These Waters
Mackinac Island: Where Cars Were Banned in 1898
The Fox Islands and the Children of the Snow
High Island's House of Virgins: Michigan's Cult
America's Only King: Beaver Island's James Strang
The Real Dorothy of Oz: A Bloomington Tragedy
Wabash's Blinding Light: First Electric City