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William Parker’s War on Slave Catchers
Mar 30, 2026April 3, 1851. A man who escaped slavery is grabbed off the streets of Boston and thrown into a carriage. He fights back, shouting to the crowd, but it doesn’t matter. Under a new federal law, even th...
The First Robot
Mar 23, 2026March 29th, 1923. A new play opens in Berlin, and quietly changes the future. Onstage are workers who never tire, never complain, and never stop. They’re faster, stronger, and more efficient than huma...
HTW Live: Busting the Myths of Irish Immigration — Recorded at the Tenement Museum
Mar 16, 2026March 18, 1879. A crowd gathers around an indoor track in Brooklyn, NY, as an Irish immigrant named Bartholomew O’Donnell attempts a strange feat: walking 80 miles in 26 hours. Newspapers claim he’s e...
From Radio Diaries: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier
Mar 12, 2026Why did Orson Welles take on a murder mystery? Listen for yourself. This week, we're sharing a special preview of Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier from the podcast Radio Diaries. In this series, ...
Axis Sally’s Nazi Radio
Mar 09, 2026March 10, 1949. Defendant Mildred Gillars arrives at a courthouse to hear her verdict. To trial-watchers, she’s known as Axis Sally—the American woman who broadcast Nazi propaganda from Berlin during ...
Stalin Is Dead! | Сталин мертв!
Mar 02, 2026March 5, 1953. The Premier of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, is on his deathbed, and he’s turning blue. At the end of his life, Stalin is surrounded by his closest advisors, but these comrades aren’...
Disneyland on a Deadline
Feb 23, 2026March 1, 1951. Two Texas horse trainers sit down to lunch with Walt Disney. They assume he wants to use their animals in a movie. Instead, Walt leans in and tells them about something that doesn’t exi...
How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River
Feb 16, 2026February 14, 1905. A stick of dynamite detonates under the Hudson River — and the ground above swallows a locomotive whole. It's the latest setback in an audacious plan to tunnel beneath the river and...
Trailer: HTW Season Premiere This Monday!
Feb 12, 2026HISTORY This Week will return with new episodes this Monday, February 16th, with a story about the most vital train tunnels in the United States. The North River Tunnels—their formal name—connect Ne...
Shut Out of the Majors, They Created Their Own
Feb 09, 2026Feb 13, 1920. For over thirty years, Black baseball players have been locked out of the major leagues. So on this day in Kansas City, Rube Foster, a former pitcher and now a team owner, is trying to m...