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What Was the American Ice Age?
Dec 01, 2025For thousands of years, North America was a frozen frontier buried beneath miles-deep ice... How did the first people reach the Americas live here? What was it like to share the land with mammoths, ma...
Thanksgiving
Nov 27, 2025In the fall of 1621, a year after the pilgrim ship the Mayflower landed on the coast of New England, the settlers of the Plymouth Colony celebrated their first successful harvest. Joining them at the ...
Crime of the Century: Who Kidnapped Charles Lindbergh Jr?
Nov 24, 2025The Lindbergh Kidnapping is one of the most influential crimes in American history; it plunged a national hero into an investigation which changed the way America thought about law, justice, and “cele...
What was the Satanic Panic?
Nov 20, 2025Why were more than 12 thousand cases of satanic abuse brought in the 1980s? Was the Prince of Darkness walking among us then? Or did something else cause the panic? Joseph Laycock joins Don for this e...
What if the Texas Republic survived?
Nov 17, 2025In 1845, the Republic of Texas stood at a crossroads. In our history, they chose to join the USA… but what if they chose another path? Was this even possible? What impact would this have had on life w...
The Hurricane Betsy Conspiracy: New Orleans
Nov 13, 2025Did New Orleans' officials bomb the levees protecting the Lower Ninth Ward in 1965? When Hurricane Betsy swept through the Atlantic Basin, it killed at least 76 people, led to a 10 foot storm surge, a...
The Supreme Court’s WORST Ever Case: Dred Scott v Sandford
Nov 10, 2025A Supreme Court decision that sent shockwaves across America. Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857. Who was the Chief Justice responsible for the decision? On what grounds did he rule that Dred Scott, and by e...
Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Lone Gunman?
Nov 06, 2025Why not have a go at understanding one of the most famous conspiracies of the 20th Century? We will probably never get an answer for what really happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963. But in this ep...
Bleeding Kansas: Start of the Civil War?
Nov 03, 2025Was 'Bleeding Kansas' a dress rehearsal for the Civil War to come? During the 1850s pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed in the newly created territory of Kansas. From guerrilla raids and pol...
American Origins of Halloween
Oct 30, 2025How did the pre-Christian commemoration of Samhain travel across the seas from Ancient Ireland to America? And how did it evolve into the Halloween we know and love to this day? In this special spooky...