Hidden History

Episode 11: Though it may seem unlikely, the simple banana has helped shape the modern world, as well as the modern diet... Read more

Episode 53: The first part in a multi part series on racial violence, this episode explores the history of the 1921 Tuls... Read more

Episode 54: The second part in a multi part series on racial violence, this episode covers the colonial legacy of white ... Read more

Episode 65: An old Japanese legend says that whoever folds a thousand paper cranes in a year is granted a wish by the go... Read more

Episode 52: The final entry in a multi-part series on labor, let's wrap things up by talking about the 1981 PATCO strike... Read more

Episode 60: This episode explores the economic history of Fordism. What exactly is it? How has it impacted the ways in w... Read more

Episode 26: Why play someone for the short con when you can play them for the long one? At the turn of the last century,... Read more

Episode 45: On September 13th, 1916, an elephant was sentenced to a hanging death by an angry mob and an opportunistic c... Read more

Episode 42: In this week’s episode, learn about Georgism, LVTs, the Law of Rent, the spread of ideas, and how the idea f... Read more

Episode 43: There are few things more ubiquitously American than the hot dog. This classic fast food has far more histor... Read more

Episode 41: Learn about the story of Evelyn Nesbit, a teenage model and actress who was repeatedly brutalized and contro... Read more

Episode 46: In this week’s episode let’s talk about the rise and fall of Anita Bryant, a former country singer, evangeli... Read more

Episode 27: Though it only existed in its most well known form in the 1980s, Government Cheese has left a lasting impact... Read more

Episode 28: In the mid 1800s, as American pioneers pushed the native population further and further westward, the Chief ... Read more

Episode 32: Is the built world inherently political? Do we shape our buildings or do our buildings shape us? Get some fo... Read more

Episode 24: The 1970s was a decade of many, many things. One of them was music, and in 1979 a group of "hip hoppers" fro... Read more

Episode 25: It was the worst environmental disaster you’ve never heard of. Over the course of 4 years, hundreds of thous... Read more

Episode 39: This week take a look at two perfectly similar versions of paradise separated by half a millennium.Twitter: ... Read more

Episode 33: Ever heard that urban legend about how NASA spent huge sums of money to develop a pen that wrote in space, w... Read more

Episode 23: Here be monsters! Throughout the 1800s, small farming communities fell victim to what they believed to be fr... Read more