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In the 1950s the United States launched a witch hunt, and it's not at all what you think.
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American Shadows is a bi-weekly podcast from iHeartRadio and Aaron Mahnke’s Grim & Mild. The show focuses on the darker stories from American history: the people, places, and things that are...
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In the 1950s the United States launched a witch hunt, and it's not at all what you think.

What would you do when faced with a life-or-death situation? Alferd Packer had to answer this question for himself, and do something that is...

The story of a man who loved his mother. Too much.

When the bicycle was invented it did more than simply change people's lives, leisure and mobility. It ignited a controversy over traditional...

The fight for equal rights was long and slow until one day a fight broke out with police, culminating in a riot. What happened next is histo...

Prussian immigrant Louis Wagner came to America hoping to make a better life for himself. Working as a fisherman in the Isle of Shoals it se...

The Gilded Age was a time of opulence and opportunism, an age that turned businessmen into household names. But it also created some of the...

Thomas Neill Cream wanted nothing more than to leave the family shipping business to become a medical doctor. Having graduated with honors,...

Spirits were high that summer’s day as everyone boarded the General Slocum. The passengers were looking forward to their annual picnic just...

In 1918, the US Government created a plan to track, detain, and imprison women for the STIs brought home from soldiers.

In the mid 1930s an unidentified killer stalked Kingsbury Run, Ohio. It's a mystery that even Elliott Ness couldn't solve.

When we think of American outlaws, we often think of cowboys and dusty trails in the Wild West. Meet the Ashley Gang who operated out of the...

Every once in a while, there are news stories that are stranger than fiction. In this episode, we meet Ruth and Judd, possibly the worst mur...

Hawaii didn't become a state until 1959. Before then, it was a Republic, but not by choice. A coup by an American fruit corporation staged a...

The story of Andrew Kehoe and his opposition to taxes, namely school taxes and the disaster that followed.

Only one thing stood between a town's survival: 674 miles of unforgiving terrain in the worst arctic weather conditions in 20 years. Boats,...

Timothy Dexter was many things — at least to himself. But mostly, he was lucky in the strangest of ways.

William Beadle had everything he'd dreamed of: a pretty and good-hearted wife, beautiful children, social status, and plenty of wealth. But...

Edmonia Lewis always loved art. In the 1800s, there weren't many women sculptors. Edmonia wasn't interested in what she couldn't do. She was...

When men went off to fight in WW II, women did their own part. They worked in factories, played in a women's baseball league, and raised fam...
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