History

America’s Playlist

America’s Playlist

In this episode, America’s Top 40 becomes America’s Top 4! This is a countdown of our nation’s greatest patriotic hits. We’re uncovering the stories behind the iconic All-American tunes you most likely know, even if you don’t know every word.

Veteran’s Day Special 2021

Veteran’s Day Special 2021

The elite U.S. Army Rangers open up their doors for a glimpse into their training; meeting a man who jumped out of the first plane on D-Day; the canines that are making connections with returned soldiers.

American Idol

American Idol

She’s over a hundred forty years old, stands three hundred five feet tall, and is covered entirely in copper plating. She’s Lady Liberty, the very first American Idol. This is the story of how America found her symbol of freedom and what she has m…

Drop the Mic

Drop the Mic

The verbal smack-down. Clap-back. The Slam. When it happens, you know that the Show. Is. Over. It’s… the MIC DROP. In this show, we take a look at American history’s masters of the mic, who used their words to reclaim the American ideal that “al…

One Percenters

One Percenters

Monopoly. You know the game. Big money, risky ventures. But there was a time in history when a few high-rollers sat down to play their own game of monopoly, except it wasn’t the board game. It was the American Economy. In this episode, we roll bac…

The OG’s

The OG’s

In the late 1860s, one figure loomed large in the Wild Wild West. The American outlaw. We’re talking about Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Belle Starr, and Billy the Kid. Or as we like to call them, the Original Gangsters. Get to know this big batch …

Mutter Museum

Mutter Museum

Mike explores the ultimate collection of medical artifacts and meets the curator of deadly disease.

Going Woke

Going Woke

Religious decline, racial divisions, sexism, political turmoil, rising secularism… In her formative years, America was awakened to the need to change. And boy, did she get woke. With the rabble-rousing cries of a 1980s hair band, a bunch circuit…