Episodes

  • The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 2 The Hastings Cutoff

    The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 2 The Hastings Cutoff
    Oct 18 2025
    During their journey to California the various families that would make up the Donner Party make a fateful choice to leave behind the well traveled and proven trail to take the so called Hastings Cutoff. Doing so because it promised to shave some 200 miles off their journey but somethings are too good to be true.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 8 Barbecue Bob and the Trouble with New Orleans

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 8 Barbecue Bob and the Trouble with New Orleans
    Oct 11 2025
    We deviate from the main thrust of our narrative to talk about the life and music of blues musician Robert Hicks aka BBQ Bob. Then we look at the curious case of New Orleans the richest city in the south. Where the city's bankers and businessmen in an effort to protect their own wealth and power sought to have a levee destroyed thereby flooding another community.

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    41 mins
  • The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 1 Manifest Destiny

    The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 1 Manifest Destiny
    Oct 4 2025
    The ultimate fate of the Donner party is a well known one but this week we see the beginnings of their fateful journey and the reasons why they left their homes to start over in California.

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Christiana Riot Episode 3 Flights and Trials

    Christiana Riot Episode 3 Flights and Trials
    Sep 20 2025
    Following the brave act of resistance by William Parker and the others in Christiana Pennsylvania the national press dubs it a riot. Meanwhile even as those directly involved make a run for it others are arrested and put on trial.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 7 Bessie Smith

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 7 Bessie Smith
    Sep 13 2025
    As performer's around the country rally to raise money to aid those affected by the flood the Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith's 'Back Water Blues' become the sound track of this disaster.

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    45 mins
  • Christiana Riot Episode 2 Fight for Freedom

    Christiana Riot Episode 2 Fight for Freedom
    Sep 6 2025
    The Gorsuch posse find more than they bargained for as they arrive in Christiana Pennsylvania. As they learn that not only do people not want to be enslaved but that they're willing to fight for their hard won freedom.

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Christiana Riot Episode 1 Fugitive Slave Act

    Christiana Riot Episode 1 Fugitive Slave Act
    Aug 23 2025
    With the future of the United States balanced upon a knife's edge due to the question of slavery the Compromise of 1850 hold's the promise of easing those tensions. Yet part of that Compromise the new fugitive slave act only serves to bring the country closer to civil war as southern slaveholders look to recapture the people who had fled to the north seeking freedom. This series then focuses on some of the clashes that resulted from this law like the one that happened in Christiana Pennsylvania between slave holder Edward Gorsuch and the enslaved men who had fled from his farm in Maryland.




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    59 mins
  • 1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 3

    1916 New Jersey Shark Attacks Part 3
    Aug 9 2025
    After a pair of shark attacks along the Jersey shore a large shark was swimming up the Matawan Creek. Where despite efforts to raise the alarm a young boy's life could be claimed by the wayward shark. The traedy though was not yet over.



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    1 hr and 13 mins