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Tracing The Path: The Connected 20th Century — 71 episodes

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Episode 77: The Conversation: World's Best Music

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Episode 76: The World's Most Famous Music

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Episode 75: The Conversation: The Real Forrest Gump

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Episode 74: The Real Life Forrest Gump

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Episode 73: The Gilded Age: First March on Washington D.C.

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Episode 72: The Invention of Hello

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Episode 71: The Amana Utopia and Patriot Missile

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Episode 70: Who Knows The Truth? Does A.I.?

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Episode 69: Status Symbol for Rent

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Episode 68: Hello Darkness My New Friend - The Story of The Family Who Created Sonar and Braille

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Episode 67: How a Coffee Shop Changed the World: The Origin Story of Lloyds of London

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Episode 66: The America of Tarzan and Buck vs Bell

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Episode 65: When Osama Bin Laden Wrinkled FDR's Plans: The 100 Year Fight Against Polio

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Episode 64: How did Bob Hope's USO become a thing? And who performed?

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Episode 63: Classified: How the Library Built the FBI and How did J. Edgar Hoover Get Involved?

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Episode 62: The Cheesy Results of WW II: Plus the Story of How Nachos Came to Be

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Episode 61: Every Episode Has 4

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Episode 60: The Secret World of Roald Dahl (A Real Chocolate Spy)

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Episode 59: The True Story of Candy Canes and How They Became a Christmas Tradition

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Episode 58: The Cultural Impact of Don McLean's "American Pie" (and the part Roberta Flack played)

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Episode 57: 1848: The Year Halloween Began and How it Started

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Episode 56: The Amazing Story of Van Diemen's Land and the U.S. Presidential Resolute Desk

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Episode 55: The Story of Grant Wood's American Gothic and How Crayola Was the Inspiration

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Episode 54: America's Westward Expansion and CBS TV's Rural Purge

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Episode 53: Robert Smalls & the Death of Lincoln: A Civil War Story

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Episode 52: The History of Maritime Law and How The Chinese Spy Balloon Used it

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Episode 51: The NBA?? Origin of the Bloody Mary & Moscow Mule

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Episode 50: How Many Times Has Coca-Cola Changed Their Secret Recipe?

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Episode 49: The 20th Century Trivia Window: Jeopardy & Trivial Pursuit

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Episode 48: The Whole It's A Wonderful Life Movie Story

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Episode 47: Was Dickens the World's First Influencer?

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Episode 46: How East Texas Wildcatters Won World War II

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Episode 45: How the Chinese Exclusion Act Created Bing Cherries and General Tso Chicken

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Episode 44: The Complex History of Popcorn in the 20th Century Culture

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Episode 43: Celebrity Edition: The Rest of the Story

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Episode 42: The Murder That Created the Oxford English Dictionary

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Episode 41: Halley's Comet and the Scientist who Hijacked a NASA Satellite

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Episode 40: The Evolution of Email and the Enron Corpus

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Episode 39: 484 Year Documentary of Muscle Shoals

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Episode 38: Who Silenced Alfred Hitchcock?

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Episode 37: The Cropduster, The Military Plot & Lindbergh's 322 Bones

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Episode 36: When 26 Million Teens Waited for The Beatles

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Episode 34: Rolex and the Hands that Changed the World

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Episode 35: The Fairy Tale of Sixto Rodriquez

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Episode 33: Finish What You Started

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Episode 32: How the Creation of Blue Dye Became the Signature of the 20th Century

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Episode 31: Did Russia Start the Peace Movement?

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Episode 30: The Wright Brothers, The Suffragists and the U.S. President

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Episode 29: 187 Years Behind Martin Luther King's Dream

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Episode 28: Will Winnie the Pooh Ever Find Freedom?

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Episode 27: The History and Impact of McCann Erickson

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Episode 26: A Charlie Brown Christmas Podcast (The Trivia)

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Episode 25: Ian Fleming and the Fake Armies of World War II

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Episode 24: How the Cholera Epidemic Jump Started the History of Pizza

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Episode 23: Did the Post Office Grow America?

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Episode 22: How the Supreme Court Created Disney+ and HBOMax

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Episode 21: How H.G. Wells Started Science Fiction and the Space Race

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Episode 20: Connecting The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

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Episode 19: Was the Idea for m&ms Stolen or Inspired?

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Episode 18: How Negro League Baseball Solved the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Episode 17: How a Tennessee Student Overturned the Scopes Trial Verdict

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Episode 16: Believe it or Not! A Cartoonist Saved our National Anthem

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Episode 9: How the Transistor and Pirate Radio Created Rock n Roll

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Episode 8: ABCs of the Most Famous Song in the World

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Episode 7: Why Rand McNally's Route 66 Started With Camels

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Episode 6: The Wizard of Oz's 30 Year Miracle

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Episode 5: The John Williams Legacy You Knew Nothing About

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Episode 4: How Curious George Escaped Nazi Germany

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Episode 3: The Surprising Life Story of Paul Harvey (Radio)

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Episode 2: How the Hostess Twinkie Survived Death (Twice)

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Episode 1: How The Oregon Trail Game Made Apple Computers Famous