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Retropod — 345 episodes
The presidential inauguration that made everyone sick
Earthrise
Hair peace. Bed peace.
The jazz queen who chose home over fame
Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims
The military's famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number
The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.
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How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL
The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame
How food found its way into the freezer
The day before the Chernobyl disaster
The most difficult job Robert Mueller ever had
Queen Arawelo
The nurse who picked up a rifle
George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL
The summer men rebelled against their shirts
America’s forgotten Iranian hostage
A bridge of ice at Niagara Falls
The Soviet officer who stopped World War III
Why isn’t lynching illegal?
A letter from home
The test that changed childbirth
A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve?
Benjamin Franklin's complicated relationship with turkeys
The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food
How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
The man who filmed JFK's assassination
The 'Night Witches'
Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena
Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy
Ketamine in the mainstream
The first 'Queen of the Air'
Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood
Jim Crow and the rise of blackface
The policeman who arrested a president
A history of the U.S.-Mexico border
The godmother of the open office
The Wicked Bible
The Confederate spy who evaded capture
Pinball’s sordid past
The last person to step foot on the moon
A history of hats in the House
Tenure for life
How Lego took over the toy world
The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet
A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat
William Howard Taft's housekeeper kept track of his weight
In 1939, the 'American Hitler' took the stage at Madison Square Garden
The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court
The first campus shooting
The origins of the Unknown Soldier
America and warfare were never the same after World War I
The campus massacre before Kent State
Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
The presidential pardon the country never forgot
How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
Mary Ann Van Hoof and her Marian apparitions
Close encounters with the Capitol's Demon Cat
New York's mad bomber
The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer
The photographer and the busboy
The time America invaded Britain
Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his 'angel mother' and 'mama'
The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel
Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman
The body of Emmett Till
The origins of the Waterloo teeth
In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships
How the teddy bear was born
The Saturday Night Massacre
How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous
How a renovation made the Supreme Court a friendlier place
The heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse
The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis
Colonel Blood, the scoundrel who tried to steal Great Britain's crown jewels
The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet
The Nazi stone
Paul Jennings, the former slave who disputed a legend from history
Winnie and Nelson Mandela's marriage survived prison but not freedom
The dark history of the pill
Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?
The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon
The worst presidents
The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys
Being a maverick almost stopped John McCain from becoming a public servant
LBJ's political bombshell
The most romantic day
The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh
The photographer who helped end child labor in America
The performance that saved Johnny Cash's career
When Olympic silver beats gold
Meet Paul Manafort's century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits
How Hollywood's first major blockbuster revived the KKK
The biscuit tin that protected the crown jewels
Rosie the Riveter isn't who you think she is
Reagan's most historic speech took a few years to make an impact
How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began
The first congresswoman's vote
The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK
The man and the coconut that saved JFK
The first daughters
The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing
The fact and fiction of Prince Philip
What Operation Pied Piper taught us about family separations
The teen who tied a Virginia election
The books the presidents read
How God became part of the pledge
How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military
The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die
The femme fatale
The congressman who shot a waiter
The children's crusade
Introducing Moonrise
The time Truman met with Stalin and it went well
Mrs. Graham
The storied past of Alderson federal women's prison
The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space
The first shark attacks
The oldest surviving banjo recording
The Jedwabne massacre
The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'
The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office
Thomas Jefferson's last letter
The epic bender that launched America
The time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
Suzanne Lenglen, the first goddess of tennis
The first pride parade
The rainless flood that destroyed a city
How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady
The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools
The origins of the National Rifle Association
How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini
The man who won World War II
Oregon was America’s first and only state to begin as 'whites-only'
Publishers hated ‘A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections
This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him
A history of extreme makeovers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement
Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career
The 'temporary insanity' legal defense started with an affair
Eisenhower’s famous speech to U.S. troops the day before D-Day
The painter who became the CIA’s master of disguise
The ax that killed Leon Trotsky
That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine
The pistols that almost fell from the sky
The rat that helped win the Cold War
Amid rising tension between the U.S. and Cuba, Hemingway's widow went on a literary rescue mission
Frank Lloyd Wright tried to create a perfect house for an imperfect world
Rising from ruin: The many rebuilds of Notre Dame
How food found its way into the freezer
The man who helped create the first measles vaccine didn’t vaccinate his own son
Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims
Why Naval Academy students climb a greased up obelisk every year
The forgotten pioneers of the first American utopia
The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame
The unlikely beginning of paint-by-number
The jazz queen who chose home over fame
Anna Jarvis spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it
John Brown's prophecy
The books presidents read
The original Alcoholics Anonymous book was auctioned for millions, but its author was never paid
The invention of sarin
May the Fourth be with you
Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant.
Meet the Press
The mother who made George Washington miserable
The Sullivan brothers
Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day was once just for daughters
These guys were college jocks, and then became presidents of the United States
The truth is out there
One broadcast helped turn Americans against the Vietnam War
Egg Roll
Chillicothe, Missouri: The town that invented sliced bread
The black power protest that shook the world
History's most fascinating misquote
Hate the IRS? Blame Abraham Lincoln.
The Mouth of the South
Queen Arawelo
The man who killed Bonnie and Clyde
From handsaws to parades: D.C.’s cherry blossom trees weren’t always beloved
The day before the Chernobyl disaster
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Earthrise
George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL
The first 'Queen of the Air'
A spy in the Confederate White House
The extraordinary life of Civil War veteran Albert Cashier
The first black senator and America’s brief biracial democracy
Why isn’t lynching illegal?
Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood
A rich piece of scandal
The godfather of bracketology
To ban a 'Mockingbird'
The history of epic North Korean insults
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Why Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history
The glass ceiling
The woman behind Lisa Ben
The night America burned
Was Mary Todd Lincoln a leaker?
The forbidden question
The best birthday card ever
The houses built by slaves
How are you, Grandmama?
The crooked picture
The Limping Lady
And the winner is...
What hath God wrought?
The ice queen
The electric rivalry
All the Presidents' Ghosts
The spy plane
Before the Lovings, another interracial couple fought to marry
Dr. Spock
The first female Marine
Philadelphia's plumbing revolution: wood pipes
Jim Crow and the rise of blackface
The Wicked Bible
How the State of the Union went from speech to spectacle
Winifred Stanley, a forgotten equal pay pioneer
The godmother of the open office
The Confederate spy who evaded capture
The rise of supermarkets
How the Doomsday Clock came to be
Pinball’s sordid past
The man inside the minds of a million consumers
A history of hats in the House
The last person to set foot on the moon
How Martin Luther King Jr. got his name
Tenure for life
The hatchet wielding leader of the anti-alcohol movement
The only person Hitler loved
A history of the U.S.-Mexico border
A presidential emergency that didn't end well
How Lego took over the toy world
The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet
One of the greatest astronomers of her generation
How one World War II veteran lived to be a centenarian
A wooden mallet with a colorful history of being shattered
The rabble rouser who inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mourning Bobby Kennedy
The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’
The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods
Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up
Big Bird and the genius inside
The military’s famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number
The Christmas Truce
A piece of punctuation that failed to leave its mark
President Grant fired his own special prosecutor
The first presidential press conference
One of the ugliest speaker fights in congressional history
The evangelist and convicted cat burglar who galvanized gay rights
America’s first black Catholic priest
John Adams was eulogized before his son even knew he died
George H.W. Bush was a president and a prankster
The unlikely friendship between George H.W. Bush and Dana Carvey
William Howard Taft’s housekeeper kept track of his weight
The National Christmas Tree
The trials and tribulations of being a cat
Then they came for me
A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat
Benjamin Franklin’s complicated relationship with turkeys
The Green Book
Food stamps were born out of a surplus of food
William Rehnquist's proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor
The first lady who couldn’t get her memoir published
Joachim Ronneberg, the saboteur who crippled Nazi atomic bomb project
Wong Kim Ark's Supreme Court fight for birthright citizenship
The makings of an electoral heist
Rahm Emanuel, Howard Dean and the midterm elections of 2006
Fall back, spring forward
Mary Ann Van Hoof and the Marian apparitions
Close encounters with the Capitol’s Demon Cat
How Pittsburgh's Mister Rogers talked to children about tragedy
The sword pulled from history
A love supreme: Ruth Bader and Martin Ginsburg
The Sultan of Swat wasn’t always known as a slugger
Big Bird and the genius inside
The metamorphosis of Jackie O
The Romanovs, Russia's 'odious' autocratic family
The gory origins of the Waterloo teeth
The first black female White House reporter held the powerful accountable on civil rights
The teenage girl who caught a Nazi monster
The complicated history of swimsuits and Miss America
The surprising history of the 25th Amendment
America’s forgotten Iranian hostage
How accusations against Supreme Court nominees were once handled
Rosie the Riveter isn’t who you think she is
How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office
Only half of George Washington’s Supreme Court justices showed up on time
Winnie and Nelson Mandela’s marriage survived prison but not freedom
Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his ‘angel mother’ and ‘mama’
The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’
Roe v. Wade’s forgotten loser
The time the United States illegally deported 1 million Mexican Americans
How a Supreme Court clerk changed the decision on Clay v. United States
A president’s lions and the emoluments clause
Meet Paul Manafort’s century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits
An aviation flop was a stamp collector’s dream and the U.S. Postal Service’s nightmare
How Mister Rogers talked to children and families about tragedy
The storied past of Alderson federal women’s prison
Rebels, turn out your dead!
The Mountaintop
Don't mess with Harriet Tubman
A Supreme Court justice morally opposed abortion, but voted to legalize it
Oregon, America’s first and only state to begin as "whites-only"
That time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
The first congresswoman’s vote
How Hollywood’s first major blockbuster revived the KKK
Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods
Thomas Jefferson’s iftar dinner and the long history of Ramadan at the White House
The biscuit tin
Before Loving, another interracial couple fought to marry
Tennis's first goddess
The White House makeover
The Order of the Day
The “temporary insanity” legal defense started with an affair
History’s most fascinating misquote
Mourning Bobby Kennedy
When Ronald Reagan visited a family targeted by the KKK
The man who filmed JFK's assassination
Princess Diana's final hours
The enigmatic Prince Philip - separating fact from fiction
Wallis Simpson, the last American divorcee who married a British royal
She spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it
To ban a "Mockingbird"
The battle between Old Waddy and the press
Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant
These guys were college jocks - and then became Presidents of the United States
Chillicothe, Missouri, the town that invented sliced bread
Barbara Bush’s remarkable commencement address
The toughest job in politics
The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
The girl who struck out Babe Ruth
Lawn wars
How the NRA began
The Green Book
All the president's ghosts
Introducing 'Retropod'