Part One: Daryl Gates: The Man Who Inven...

Robert concludes the story of Daryl Gates with his founding of SWAT and insane reaction to the LA Riots.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - CZM Rewind: Indigenous Peoples Day - CZM Rewind: Title 42: How a Public Health Law Kills Refugees - CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 2: Migrant Stories - CZM Rewind: Title 42, Pt 3: The Mutual Aid Respo ... Show More

We conclude the heinous tale of Volkswagen's slave plantation in Brazil.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Margaret continues talking with Prop about how the people of Haiti destroyed a slave empire. Sources: https://www.newsweek.com/poland-nationalism-new-york-haiti-slave-rebellion-revolution-1382388 A Secret among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution, John D. G ... Show More

The transatlantic slave trade was formally abolished in both Britain and the US in 1807 and 1808 – yet slave ships were still forcibly bringing enslaved African people to the Americas right up to the 1860s. David Musgrove speaks to historian Hannah Durkin about the long history o ... Show More

Sandra Birchmore vanishes after a February nor'easter. Days later, the young teacher’s aide is found dead in her home under mysterious circumstances. Andrea Canning reports. Lester Holt and Andrea Canning go behind the scenes of the making of this episode in ‘Talking Dateline’Lis ... Show More

Margaret talks with Ed Zitron about the origins of one of her all-time favorite games.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Margaret's taking the week off! Here's a rerun where Margaret talks with Shereen about how, in the era before divorce, a group of women sold poison to aspiring widows.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Martha Mitchell, the wife of Nixon's Attorney General, was well-known to spread a juicy rumor. That's why when Watergate unfolded, she was held captive in a hotel room on her husband's orders and painted as a crazy alcoholic. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Margaret talks with Kat Abu about the history of community gardening in New York City and elsewhere.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

On this episode of Our American Stories, here’s Christopher Klein with the story of how Abraham Lincoln used the telegraph to help win the Civil War. Support the show (https://www.ouramericanstories.com/donate)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race law.” The fight over the 1936 Games provided Americans with a chance to study Nazi Germany. But it turns out the Nazis were studying us too. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in ... Show More

Why did a British ship carry over 200 women to Australia in the late 18th century? In this episode, we are going inside the Lady Juliana, a convict transportation ship.What crimes were these women being punished for? What was life like on the ship? And why was it called a 'floati ... Show More