HISTORY This Week

HISTORY This Week

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The Haunting Case of H.H. Holmes

The Haunting Case of H.H. Holmes

October 28, 1895. It’s the first day of a murder trial in Philadelphia, and H.H. Holmes has been left to represent hi...

Oct 27, 2025
The Haunting Case of H.H. Holmes

The Haunting Case of H.H. Holmes

October 28, 1895. It’s the first day of a murder trial in Philadelphia, and H.H. Holmes has been left to represent hi...

Oct 27, 2025
How LEGO Rebuilt the Toy Itself

How LEGO Rebuilt the Toy Itself

October, 1955. In living rooms across Denmark, children tear open the box of a brand-new toy: the LEGO System in Play...

Oct 13, 2025
How LEGO Rebuilt the Toy Itself

How LEGO Rebuilt the Toy Itself

October, 1955. In living rooms across Denmark, children tear open the box of a brand-new toy: the LEGO System in Play...

Oct 13, 2025
Stalin’s War on Genetics

Stalin’s War on Genetics

October 11, 1955. Nearly three hundred of the Soviet Union’s top scientists sign a secret letter demanding the remova...

Oct 06, 2025
The Bone Wars

The Bone Wars

October 4, 1915. President Woodrow Wilson designates Dinosaur National Monument as a national historic site. That’s a...

Sep 29, 2025
When Nintendo (and Mario) Rescued Video Games

When Nintendo (and Mario) Rescued Video Games

September 27, 1986. You’re a kid in the mid-80s. You get home from school, flip on the TV, and see something strange:...

Sep 22, 2025
The First Lady Who Tamed the Bull Moose

The First Lady Who Tamed the Bull Moose

September 14, 1901. Midnight in the Adirondacks. A pounding knock at the door jolts Theodore and Edith Roosevelt awak...

Sep 15, 2025
Presenting: The C-Word

Presenting: The C-Word

With every episode, Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett take you on a historical deep dive into the life of a woman societ...

Sep 11, 2025
An Astronomer Hunts a KGB Hacker

An Astronomer Hunts a KGB Hacker

September 10, 1986. It’s just before 8am when Cliff Stoll’s pager jolts him awake. A computer at Lawrence Berkeley La...

Sep 08, 2025
Shaving Russia

Shaving Russia

Sept 5, 1698. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia returns home from a year-long European tour. When noblemen, religious fi...

Sep 01, 2025
José Cuervo Rebuilds a Tequila Empire

José Cuervo Rebuilds a Tequila Empire

August 28, 1920. In the town of Tequila, fireworks burst overhead as people celebrate Mexico’s independence. Then… gu...

Aug 25, 2025
The True Winnie-the-Pooh

The True Winnie-the-Pooh

August 24, 1914. A train pulls up to the lumber town of White River, Ontario, carrying a regiment of Canadian troops ...

Aug 21, 2025
Egypt’s Last Hieroglyph and the Fiery Archbishop of Alexandria

Egypt’s Last Hieroglyph and the Fiery Archbishop of Alexandria

August 24, 394. On the walls of a fading Egyptian temple, a priest carves what will become the last known hieroglyph ...

Aug 18, 2025 33m 21s
The Shark Attacks That Made Us Fear the Water

The Shark Attacks That Made Us Fear the Water

August 15, 1915. American diplomat J. T. Du Bois publishes a letter in The New York Times. It’s not about diplomacy o...

Aug 11, 2025 32m 53s