The History of Helicopters
For centuries, inventors dreamed of creating a flying machine that could rise straight into the air, hover in place, and move in any directi...
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Everything Everywhere Daily
A Podcast for Intellectually Curious People! Learn something new every single day. Everything Everywhere Daily tells the stories of interesting people, places, and things from around the wor...
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The New Deal
In 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic crisis in its history. Millions were unemployed, banks were collapsing, an...
Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar
European powers, missionaries, and foreign merchants seeking influence over her kingdom. She responded by closing much of her country to out...
The History of Ben-Hur
In the late 19th century, one novel became one of America’s biggest literary sensations. Its story was so ambitious that bringing it to the...
The History of Sausages
For thousands of years, people have taken some of an animal's least desirable parts and turned them into a culinary tradition found almost e...
The Long Telegram (Encore)
On February 22, 1946, George F. Kennan, a career diplomat working in the American embassy in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word cable to the State D...
Simón Bolívar
In the early 19th century, the Spanish Empire in the Americas began to fracture. From the chaos emerged a wealthy young aristocrat with litt...
The Monster Study
In 1939, researchers at a prominent American university began an experiment involving children at an orphanage in Iowa. The children were di...
The World's Worst Predictions
Throughout history, experts, executives, scientists, and journalists have tried to predict what the future would look like. Some of those pr...
Questions and Answers: Volume 46
What do the element palladium, William Shakespeare, and this episode have in common? Palladium is the 46th element on the periodic table. Sh...
Neanderthals
For hundreds of thousands of years, another kind of human lived across Europe and western Asia. They hunted enormous animals, survived bruta...
The History of McDonald's
In 1940, two brothers opened a small restaurant near Route 66 in San Bernardino, California. After meeting an aggressive milkshake-machine s...
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
For decades in the Deep South, bus passengers had to sit in the back of the bus and give up their seats to white passengers. Despite making...
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the final decades of the Roman Republic, power increasingly belonged to men who commanded armies. Yet one man rose to the highest levels...
The FBIs Most Wanted List
For more than 75 years, the FBI has maintained a list designed to put some of America’s most elusive fugitives directly in front of the publ...
Matthew Fontaine Maury: The Man Who Revolutionized Ocean Navigation
For centuries, sailors crossed oceans using charts, experience, and accumulated wisdom. But in the 19th century, one naval officer realized...
Chief Joseph
In the late 19th century, as the United States expanded across the West, one Native leader became famous not only for his resistance, but fo...
The New Madrid Earthquakes
In the winter of 1811, the American frontier was shaken by a series of earthquakes so powerful they were felt across much of the continent....
Machu Picchu
High in the Andes lies one of the world's most famous archaeological sites. It was built by a civilization without iron tools, wheeled trans...
How DNA Solves Crimes
For most of human history, identifying the person responsible for a crime depended on witnesses, confessions, fingerprints, and sometimes li...