Mar 2025
Blank Check History: When Scholars Hit the Jackpot
In the Season 0 finale, Mike and Alexis consider a world in which historians put their money where their history is. Links to the great work of our guests! Rory McGovern Race, Politics, and Reconstruction: The First Black Cadets at Old West Point Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The G ... Show More
26m 50s
Jan 2025
Black Pioneer, White Frontier
In the 1840s, Black pioneer George Bush (no relation!), his white wife, and their five children quit Missouri, a slave state, for the Pacific Northwest---only to find racial exclusion laws hot on his heels.
37m 19s
Jul 2024
The Murder of Bessie Darling
<p>On the morning of October 31, 1933, a gunman burst through the door of Bessie Darling’s home in Foxville, Maryland and shot the woman to death. Police quickly arrested George Schultz, Darling’s boyfriend and business partner, who’d unsuccessfully attempted suicide after shooti ... Show More
44m 7s
Jan 2025
The Murder of Malcolm Caldwell
Two Americans and one Brit were invited to Communist Cambodia in 1978 to meet the brutal dictator Pol Pot. The Brit is called Malcolm Caldwell, a professor from Scotland, and a big Pol Pot fan. Just hours after he meets his hero, Malcolm is shot dead. So, who killed Malcolm Cal ... Show More
29m 49s
Sep 2025
The Horrific Crimes of the Aspirin Bandit
<p>On February 4, 1941, Bronx police officers were called to the home of John and Catherine Pappas for a report of a homicide. Based on the evidence, detectives theorized that someone had been invited into the Pappas apartment while Catherine was home alone and that same someone ... Show More
59m 22s
<p>At the time, <em>surely</em> Kateryn Parr had her reservations about being Henry VIII's sixth wife?</p><br><p>Aside from being a tyrannical maniac who'd just beheaded his last wife, Catherine Howard, he was getting old, angry and his ulcerous leg was getting smelly.</p><br><p> ... Show More