The Detroit History Podcast

Ketamine has found wide uses since the 1960s: As a painkiller, an anesthetic, a street drug consumed at raves, and -- no... Read more

Broadcaster Fran Harris's life was a lifetime of firsts. She was the first woman newscaster in Detroit radio during Worl... Read more

A longstanding community called Mexicantown on Detroit's southwest side has persevered for around a century. The area of... Read more

Thousands of phonograph records were destroyed, as were thousands of needles used on the old-style record players. Teena... Read more

Sometime in the mid-1940s, an Italian immigrant bar owner by the name of Gus Guerra started making pizzas in his joint t... Read more

It was horrific, even by the low standards of the urban drug trade. Three dead bodies found in a van on Detroit's east s... Read more

The beginnings of Detroit are inaccurately pinned to the arrival of Cadillac on these shores in 1701, but there were var... Read more

Smack in the middle of the Civil War, Detroit experienced a riot that was characterized as "the most brutal and bloody r... Read more

On a cold winter day in 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, some 3,000 or more people met at a park on Detroit'... Read more

Joe Louis may have been the most famous person to come out of Detroit. He arrived here in the mid-1920s as part of the G... Read more