This Day

Evacuation Day: NYC's Forgotten Holiday (1783)

Evacuation Day: NYC's Forgotten Holiday (1783)

The Myth of The Myth of Lewis & Clark (1805)

The Penny Is Dead [Some Sunday Context]

Sesame Street Premieres (1969)

The Birth of Sesame Street (1969)

Utah's Revolutionary Senator (1868)

The Sewer Socialist Mayor (1916)

Japanese Cars, Made In America (1982)

Dizzy Gillespie For President (1964)

The Memory Palace: This Weekend's Teach-In

The (Actual) Tree Of Liberty

A Toxic Town Fights Back (1982)

Teddy Roosevelt's "Race Suicide" Fears (1903) w/ Andrew Porwancher

The Obamacare Website Crashes On Day One (2013)

Teach-Ins (Plus A Special Announcement!) w/ Nate DiMeo

The First Modern Shutdown w/ Steve Kornacki (2013) [Archive Episode]

The First Time Democrats Shut Down The Government (1879) [Some Sunday Context]

"We Didn't Start The Fire's" Crash Course In History (1989)

The Elaine Massacre (1919)

Post-911 Patriotic Mania (2001) [Chilled Speech Week Pt 2]

The Red Channels Whisper Network (1950) [Chilled Speech Week Pt 1]

Campus Loyalty Oaths [Some Sunday Context]

Washington's Masonic Cornerstone (1793)

The Great Crush Train Crash (1896)

Ollie North, Still In The News [Some Sunday Context]

The Irish-Americans Fighting For Mexico (1847)

The Hummer Takes Over (2001)

Fred Tuttle Goes From Mockumentary to Senate Candidate (1998)

Alaska vs. Ohio: Mt McKinley To Denali And Back Again (2015)

The Subway Vigilante Shooting (1984) w/ Leon Neyfakh [Archive Favorite]

The U.S. Gets A New Capitol - For One Day (1814) [Archive Favorite]

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)