How Women Won WWII: A New Era Unfolds
Before we wrap up our series on how Women Won World War II, we need to talk about what happened next. It was the question on everyone’s mind...
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How Women Won WWII: With a Flash and a Rumble
For 3 years, scientists in secret cities around the U.S. had been in a race against time to complete the world’s first atomic weapon. And in...
How Women Won WWII: Caught By the Enemy
She was WWII's most decorated spy: a woman whose spirit and determination in the face of danger is unparalleled. Born in France, Odette Sans...
How Women Won WWII: The Confidante, Anna Rosenberg
Together, let's hear from author Christopher Gorham, whose new book, The Confidante, is the first-ever biography written about one of the Un...
How Women Won WWII: AABBA and the Art of Codebreaking
Shakespeare and Al Capone. What could possibly be a link between these two men who were born centuries apart? A master codebreaker named Eli...
How Women Won WWII: Sabotage and a Jewish Spymaster
It's time to return to the art of espionage. During World War II, Prime Minister Winston Churchill understood that boots on the ground were...
How Women Won WWII: The Booming Work of Women Scientists
In a previous episode of our series, we had a conversation about the combined efforts of the Allied science community to beat Germany in the...
How Women Won WWII: British Wrens at War
Let’s head to Great Britain and learn about a military organization that recruited women into the war effort all across the country. Women v...
How Women Won WWII: By the Glow of Radium
How did the United States successfully produce and detonate the first atomic bomb? That success happened through a combination of random eve...
How Women Won WWII: A Starlette Spies for France with Josephine Baker
She was a larger than life woman who utilized her fame and charm to secretly gather intel for the Allies during World War II. She put hersel...
How Women Won WWII: The Women of the Secret Cities
The Manhattan Project. It was a top-secret program ran for three war-filled years and employed over 120 thousand people. Most of those peopl...
How Women Won WWII: Rosie the Riveter Was Just the Beginning
Over the next few weeks, we’ll explore the incredibly varied and complex roles women stepped into during World War II. No, they weren’t GIs....
Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 12
It was supposed to be a picturesque and luxurious sightseeing tour over Antarctica. One filled with wonder and awe, in a tour that had culti...
Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 11
“You are now leaving Iranian airspace!” It was a moment that dozens of hostages and their loved ones longed for with bated breath, for 444 d...
Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 10
A religious leader with a raging drug addiction who led his following to a tragic end. A President with the hope of finding peace between Is...
Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 9
Did you know that Star Wars almost started a war in real life, over a sand crawler model? Would the film have been so wildly successful if s...
Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 8
A happenstance introduction to Charles Manson. Assassination attempts against President Ford, a man who was never elected to the vice presid...
Introducing Family Lore
Family Lore is a weekly narrative podcast that celebrates and investigates ancestral mystique. Each episode begins with a guest sharing a fa...
Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 7
Draft dodging. When did the draft lottery begin for the war in Vietnam, and who among America’s youth was hit the hardest? It was an unwinna...
Mayhem: The 1970s You Never Knew, Episode 6
A cover up that cost Nixon's presidency, a pardon that cost Gerald R. Ford his election, and a friendship dating back to the 1940s. It was t...