Edison vs. Tesla | Prometheus’ Fire | 1
In the 1870s, the age of artificial light was still in its infancy. Gas lamps cast a dim glow on city streets, and early arc lights were jus...
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The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life -the words you speak, the ideas you share- can be traced to our history, but how well do you really know the...
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20 of 477 episodesThe 1900 Galveston Hurricane | After the Storm | 4
The devastation of the 1900 Galveston hurricane left thousands dead and a city in ruins — but it also set in motion a remarkable story of re...
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane | City of Doom | 3
On September 9, 1900, the residents of Galveston, Texas woke up to find their island in ruins. Entire neighborhoods had vanished overnight....
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane | Night of Terrors | 2
As a catastrophic hurricane approached Galveston, Texas on the morning of September 8, 1900, residents continued to go about their daily liv...
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane | An Absurd Delusion | 1
At the turn of the 20th century, a booming cotton trade had made the Gulf Coast city of Galveston, Texas an economic powerhouse. Located jus...
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Harper Lee: Mockingbird | 6
In 1949, aspiring writer Nelle Harper Lee moved from her home in small-town Alabama to New York City. She was following in the footsteps of...
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | James Baldwin: The Exile | 5
Born into poverty in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin rose to become a celebrated novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet, and a leading voice...
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | John Steinbeck: The Observer | 4
Growing up in the Salinas Valley of Northern California, John Steinbeck dreamed of becoming a professional writer. In his youth he took on o...
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Mark Twain: Voice of a Nation | 3
In the late 1850s, a young man named Samuel Clemens started out piloting steamboats on the Mississippi River. Within a few years, he embarke...
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Louisa May Alcott: The Breadwinner | 2
In 1840, eight-year-old Louisa May Alcott moved to the small town of Concord, Massachusetts with her family. There, she spent her days wande...
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Macabre | 1
In February 1826, 17-year-old Edgar Allan Poe was a promising student at the University of Virginia. But within a few months, gambling debts...
St. Valentines Day Massacre: Closing In On Capone | 3
In the aftermath of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, authorities faced mounting pressure to clean up Chicago and take down the violent mobs...
St. Valentines Day Massacre | Public Enemy No. 1 | 2
On Valentine’s Day 1929, seven men were gunned down in a Chicago garage in an attack that stunned the nation. Photographs of the bloody scen...
St. Valentines Day Massacre | The Land of Bilk and Money | 1
In 1920, a young Al Capone arrived in Chicago looking for a fresh start, and his timing couldn’t have been better. That same year, Prohibiti...
Conquering Polio | There Is No Patent | 4
In the early 1950s, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin were in a race to develop a vaccine against polio. While Salk’s killed-virus vaccine was the...
Conquering Polio | The Cutter Fiasco | 3
In April 1954, a group of first graders lined up in the gymnasium of an elementary school in McLean, Virginia for the start of the Salk poli...
Conquering Polio | Beyond the Microscope | 2
By the late 1940s, the National Institute of Infantile Paralysis had raised millions of dollars to pay for patient care and laboratory resea...
The Ice King | Indian Summer | 4
After two turbulent decades in the ice trade, Frederic Tudor had finally made it. Expanding into the American South had paid off, with citie...
Conquering Polio | The March of Dimes | 1
In the summer of 1921, 39-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt was on vacation with his family when he developed a fever, muscle aches, and ch...
The Ice King | Slippery Business | 3
By 1816, Frederic Tudor had spent a decade shipping New England ice to Cuba—with little to show for it. Setbacks and vanished profits nearly...
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