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"Have You No Decency, Sir?"
Jun 12, 2025June 9, 1954. Senator Joseph McCarthy has accused the United States Army of having communists within its midst. After rising to power during a time of great fear in America, McCarthy's name has become...
Jumping Off a High Dive on a Horse (While Blind)
Jun 09, 2025June 14, 1938. It’s 8:30 PM at Lake Worth Casino in Fort Worth, Texas. All eyes are on a huge high-dive platform, 40 feet in the air. And at the top? A woman… on a horse. Horse diving is one of the m...
Inside the Nazis’ Supernatural Obsession | A Conversation with Historian Eric Kurlander
Jun 02, 2025June 4, 1941. Reinhard Heydrich transmits a message to all regional governors in the Third Reich: prepare for “action against occult teachings.” Heydrich is carrying out the orders of Adolf Hitler, w...
How the Whitman Murders Redefined the American West
May 26, 2025May 30, 1855. Five thousand Native Americans come to Walla Walla to negotiate a treaty. However, it’s not exactly a fair negotiation – the territorial governor basically tells these tribes that they h...
A Vicious Beating on the Senate Floor
May 19, 2025May 22, 1856. Charles Sumner isn’t worried about making friends in the Senate. His rhetoric is inflammatory, almost intentionally. He’s an ardent abolitionist in a time when people are still enslaved ...
A Teenage Girl Saves France
May 15, 2025May 16, 1920. Tens of thousands of people surround St. Peter’s Basilica to honor Joan of Arc, a French peasant girl who died nearly five hundred years before. Joan’s feats in battle—and her visions of...
McDonald’s Before McDonald’s
May 12, 2025May 15, 1940. It’s opening day. San Bernardino, California is a city on the rise, and to meet this new demand for cheap, good food, two brothers have created a restaurant: McDonald’s Famous Barbecue. ...
Cinco de Mayo’s Civil War Connection
May 05, 2025May 5, 1862. The French have landed in Mexico. Napoleon III wants to conquer the country and assert France’s imperial dominance in the Americas. In his way? The Mexican army, held up in the city of Pu...
America’s Cold War Obsession with Greenland
Apr 28, 2025April 27, 1951. The United States has been putting pressure on Denmark for a long time. Because the small European kingdom has something the Americans really, really want: Greenland. Today, they sig...
Trailer: America's Cold War Obsession with Greenland
Apr 24, 2025HISTORY This Week returns with new episodes this Monday! We're kicking things off with a look at America's longtime fascination with Greenland, and how the U.S. military used the island to expand its ...