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HISTORY This Week

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Visit htwpod.com for ad-free listening and bonus content! This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the…

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HISTORY This Week

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9/11: Rescue on the Water

The Radium Girls Fight Back

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Did Homer Write the Odyssey? (Was He Even Real?)

The Wire That Connected the World

The French Monarchy Falls in a Day

Arsenic, Adultery, and an American on Trial

Fall Out (Finale)

Washington: Hero of the Revolution, from The Rest is History

Ben Franklin Gets Fired

From First America: "Merciless Indian Savages"

The Forgotten Father of Air Conditioning

The *Other* Declaration of Independence (Part II)

Free HTW+ preview: Ken Burns on the American Revolution (Extended Interview)

The *Other* Declaration of Independence (Part I)

A Mob Boss Starts A Movement

Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise – Prologue

Malcolm Gladwell on Reconstruction’s Unfinished Questions

Why the Crusades Became Cool Again

How Higgins and His Boats Won the War

WWII with Tom Hanks (Episode 1 – The Beginning)

The Secretary of War Who Feared the Bomb

Bonnie and Clyde’s Final Ride

The Berlin Airlift and the Birth of the New World Order (Part 2)

Introducing: Family Lore

Surviving the Mad Propagandist of Nazi Berlin (Part 1)

Parting the Desert Between Two Seas

One Eco-Arson After Another: The Earth Liberation Front

Jefferson’s Trade War Shuts Down America

A Good, Not Great Lake (from Points North)

Oil Fields, Bags of Cash, a Presidency Exposed

William Parker’s War on Slave Catchers

The First Robot

HTW Live: Busting the Myths of Irish Immigration — Recorded at the Tenement Museum

From Radio Diaries: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier

Axis Sally’s Nazi Radio

Stalin Is Dead! | Сталин мертв!

Disneyland on a Deadline

How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River

Shut Out of the Majors, They Created Their Own

The Great Comic Book Scare

The Dogs Who Saved Nome, Alaska

From Hitler to Hippies: The Surprising Origins of the VW Beetle | Presenting Business History

Houdini Defies Death

The Great Boston Molasses Flood

Tuskegee Top Gun

King Tut’s Tomb and the Battle for Egypt’s Past

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: A History In Lights (from The Bowery Boys)

A Scrooge for the Ages

Sam Adams Brews Rebellion in Boston Harbor

The Thalidomide Disaster and the Doctors Who Uncovered the Truth

How a Forgotten Explorer’s Secret Mission Unlocked the Pacific

A Meteorite Hits Ann Hodges

Ken Burns Reimagines the American Revolution | A Conversation with Ken Burns & Sarah Botstein

The Grinnell 14 Take On the Bomb (feat. Peter Coyote)

The Forgotten Life & Tragic Death of President James Garfield | A Conversation with ‘Death by Lightning’ Creator Mike Makowsky

The Haunting Case of H.H. Holmes

Land of the Free? The Real Story Behind the Star-Spangled Banner

They Saw What the United Nations Couldn’t

How LEGO Rebuilt the Toy Itself

Stalin’s War on Genetics

The Bone Wars

When Nintendo (and Mario) Rescued Video Games

The First Lady Who Tamed the Bull Moose

An Astronomer Hunts a KGB Hacker

Shaving Russia

José Cuervo Rebuilds a Tequila Empire

The True Winnie-the-Pooh

Egypt’s Last Hieroglyph and the Fiery Archbishop of Alexandria

The Shark Attacks That Made Us Fear the Water

When Nazis Killed Nazis in the Middle of America

Barbie for President!

Anarchists, Lovers, and the Birth of the FBI

Solving a Royal Murder Mystery | Philippa Langley Investigates the Princes in the Tower

Operation Mincemeat Revisited | Episode + Bonus Interview with Natasha Hodgson

Superman Takes Flight

The Colosseum Becomes a Wonder | A Conversation with Barry Strauss & Alison Futrell

The Forgotten Mentor Who Inspired Louis Armstrong

The Other Declaration of Independence (Part II)

The Other Declaration of Independence (Part I)