All Episodes
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Mussolini Betrayed by His Own Party - July 25, 1943
On July 25, 1943, the men who built Mussolini's dictatorship voted to end it, then spent the next six months revealing exactly what that vote had and hadn't been about...
The Camp They Called Propaganda - July 24, 1944
On July 24, 1944, Soviet soldiers became the first Allied troops in World War II to walk into a Nazi death camp, finding Majdanek's gas chambers, warehouses, and crema...
The Vault She Never Needed - July 23, 1996
On July 23, 1996, Kerri Strug vaulted on a torn ankle to clinch Olympic gold for Team USA, a moment gymnastics has celebrated for thirty years. The math behind that sc...
The Night the FBI Killed Dillinger - July 22, 1934
On July 22, 1934, federal agents shot John Dillinger dead in an alley beside Chicago's Biograph Theater, the kill that made J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and buried the humili...
The Scopes Monkey Trial Was Staged - July 21, 1925
The 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" is remembered as a clean fight between science and faith, but it began as a publicity stunt to save a dying Tennessee town, and the scho...
Citizenship By Force - July 20. 1868
On July 20th, 1868, the Secretary of State certified the 14th Amendment despite two states trying to withdraw their votes, granting citizenship to formerly enslaved Am...
Rome Burns, Christians Die - July 19, 64 AD
When Rome burned for six days in 64 AD, the emperor Nero organized real disaster relief and then built a palace on the cleared land and blamed an obscure religious min...
The Bridge That Ended a Kennedy Presidency - July 18, 1969
On July 18, 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and Mary Jo Kopechne never made it out of the car. What happened in the water may ne...
The Mutiny That Wasn't - July 17, 1944
On July 17, 1944, an ammunition explosion at Port Chicago killed 320 sailors, most of them Black, in the deadliest home-front disaster of World War II. When 258 surviv...
One Man Split Christianity Forever - July 16, 1054
On July 16, 1054, a papal legate walked into the Hagia Sophia and placed an excommunication on the altar that divided Christianity into Catholic and Orthodox for the n...
The Coup That Broke Cyprus - July 15, 1974
On July 15, 1974, a military coup backed by the Greek junta toppled Cyprus's elected president and triggered a chain of events that left the island divided in two, whe...
America Taught Hitler to Sterilize - July 14, 1934
On July 14, 1933, Nazi Germany signed a law mandating the forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of its citizens. What most people don't know is that the Nazis ...
The $300 That Started A Riot - July 13, 1863
On July 13, 1863, a mob of Irish immigrants burned New York City, and they weren't entirely wrong about why. The Civil War draft exempted anyone who could pay $300, an...
The Night a Baseball Stadium Burned Music - July 12, 1979
On July 12, 1979, a Chicago radio DJ named Steve Dahl blew up a crate of disco records at Comiskey Park between games of a White Sox doubleheader, and 50,000 people ri...
America's Most Violent Political Era - July 11, 1804
On July 11, 1804, the sitting Vice President of the United States shot and killed the former Treasury Secretary in a duel at dawn and then finished out his term in off...
When Democracy Voted Itself to Death - July 10, 1940
On July 10, 1940, the elected representatives of the French Third Republic gathered at a casino in the spa town of Vichy and voted 569 to 80 to hand dictatorial powers...
America's War on Gold - July 9, 1896
On July 9, 1896, a little-known Nebraska congressman walked to a podium and delivered the speech that made him a presidential nominee overnight by accusing America's f...
The Battle Putin Uses to Justify Ukraine – July 8, 1709
On July 8, 1709, Sweden's empire was destroyed in a single morning at the Battle of Poltava, and in June 2022, Vladimir Putin stood in front of cameras and cited that ...
How America Stole Hawaii - July 7, 1898
On July 7, 1898, the United States annexed Hawai'i using a legal workaround the Constitution's framers never intended, and a documented majority of Native Hawaiians ha...
How a Blockade Starved a Million Children - July 6, 1967
On July 6, 1967, Nigerian federal troops crossed into Biafra, beginning a two-and-a-half-year war that killed up to three million people, most of them children, most o...
