This Day

Emergency Podcast: Smithsonian Showdown, Relitigating Slavery, More (2025)

Emergency Podcast: Smithsonian Showdown, Relitigating Slavery, More (2025)

The First Battle Over The Smithsonian (1846) [Archive Favorite]

The Dumbest, Most Perfect, Political Question Ever (2012) [Archive Favorite]

Jefferson Gets An Anti-Slavery Appeal (1791) [Archive Favorite]

Moral Panics, D&D, Steam Tunnels and More (1979) [Archive Favorite]

Trump On Charlottesville: "Very Fine People" (2017) [Archive Favorite]

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1846) [Archive Favorite]

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and The Brutal Calculus of WWII (1945) w/ Garrett Graff

WWII Internment: Latin Americans in Texas (1944)

Texas Dems Flee To Stop Redistricting (Some Context) w/ Harry Enten

Weird, Controversial, and Fake Historical Markers (Part 2)

The History Of History Markers (Part 1) (1913)

The Frick Near-Assassination (1892)

John Dillinger Is Killed, The FBI Is Born (1934)

Willis Carrier Invents Air Conditioning (1902)

The Great Grain Robbery (1972)

Superman's Politics w/ Glen Wheldon [Some Sunday Context]

The Death Of The DOE (1868)

The Mormon King Of Beaver Island (1850)

How America250 Is Coming Together (Part 2)

America250 Is Here, Are You Ready?

The Chicken Tariff That Led To Huge Trucks (1962)

4th Of July, Protest, The Constitution and Slavery (Some Sunday Context)

LBJ Goes From War On Poverty To War On Crime (1968)

Wikipedia, The Last Good Place On The Internet (2003) w/ Garrett Graff

Juneteenth, Federal Holidays, And Writing History In Real Time

50 Years Of JAWS Terrifying Everyone (1975)

LBJ Puts Thurgood Marshall On The Court (1967)

FDR Takes Your Gold (1933)

LA, The National Guard, Immigration and the Zoot Suit Riots (Some Sunday Context)

The U.S. Deports A Chinese Scientist (1950)

Jack Johnson't Big Fight (1913)

Inside Airline Cockpits (Some Sunday Context) w/ Ganesh Sitaraman

The Forgotten Resistance To Indian Removal (1830)

Hippies vs. Hard Hats (1970)

The 100-Year Butter Battle (1904)

The MeckDec - North Carolina's Favorite Myth (1775) w/ Jeremy Markovich

Malcolm X Turns 100 (Some Sunday Context)

Miami Explodes Into Violence (1980)

An Early Climate Change Warning Ignored (1957) w/ Amy Westervelt

SINNERS And The Deep History Of The Mississippi Delta (Some Sunday Context)

The Woman Who Invented -- And Disowned -- Mother's Day (1914)

Reagan's German Cemetery Visit Controversy (1985)

The Women's Health Vacuum (Some Sunday Context)

Lincoln Needs Troops (1861)

The Artists Who Worked For The CIA (1960) w/ Benjamen Walker

The First 100 Days (Some Sunday Context)

John Paul Jones' Half-Baked Raid On British Soil (1778)

Betty Ford Enters Rehab (1978)

Prisons, Photos, CECOT, Abu Ghraib, and What Shocks Us (Some Sunday Context)