All Episodes
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The Ground Beneath the Glory - June 15, 1865
On June 15, 1864, Montgomery Meigs, a general who despised Robert E. Lee as a traitor, signed the order creating Arlington National Cemetery on the Lee family’s seized...
Before Auschwitz was Auschwitz - June 14, 1940
On June 14, 1940, 728 Polish priests, soldiers, students, and resistance members became the first prisoners at Auschwitz not Jewish victims, but Catholic Poles targete...
The Hills They Would Not Sell - June 13, 1979
On June 13, 1979, the U.S. Court of Claims ruled that the seizure of the Black Hills from the Sioux Nation was one of the most dishonorable acts in American history an...
The Election That Ended Russian Democracy - June 12, 1991
On June 12, 1991, I stepped off a Delta flight in Moscow, walked out of the National Hotel on Mokhovaya Street, and found myself in the middle of Russia's first free e...
The Fire That Changed The War - June 11, 1963
On June 11, 1963, a sixty-seven-year-old Buddhist monk named Thich Quang Duc sat in the center of a Saigon intersection and set himself on fire. His photograph was on ...
The Murder That Made Mussolini Immortal - June 10, 1924
On June 10, 1924, Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti was kidnapped and murdered by Fascist agents - and the political crisis that followed gave Mussolini's opp...
God Died In Chains - June 9, 1900
On June 9, 1900, a 25-year-old tribal prophet named Birsa Munda died in a British colonial jail cell in India and the official record says cholera, while his people s...
Abandoned By their Own President - June 8, 1967
On June 8, 1967, Israeli jets and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, a lightly armed American intelligence ship in international waters, killing thirty-four U.S. ...
The Bomb That Backfired - June 7, 1981
On June 7, 1981, Israel destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in a strike that was universally condemned and later widely praised. But declassified documents and cap...
Stolen March - June 6, 1966
On June 6, 1966, James Meredith was shot by a sniper on the second day of his solo March Against Fear through Mississippi, and within hours, a civil rights movement he...
The Plague With No Name - June 5, 1981
On June 5, 1981, the CDC published five paragraphs that changed American history, the first official documentation of what we now call AIDS. What followed was not a si...
Two Revolutions, One Day - June 4, 1989
On June 4, 1989, two communist governments faced the same crisis and gave opposite answers. In Poland, Solidarity’s decade-long resistance produced a historic electio...
Patriots With Clubs - June 3, 1943
On June 3, 1943, fifty U.S. Navy sailors walked out of a Los Angeles armory with clubs and spent the night dragging Mexican-American teenagers from movie theaters, and...
The Bullet That Built Germany - June 2, 1967
The bullet that killed Ohnesorg didn't just end one life. It radicalized a generation and simultaneously produced two of the most consequential political movements in ...
The Plane Britain Let Die - June 1, 1943
On June 1, 1943, a passenger aircraft was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by eight German fighters and everyone aboard, including one of the most famous actors in th...
Drowned By The Rich - May 31, 1889
On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam collapsed above Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing 2,209 people in one of the deadliest disasters in American history. The dam was pr...
Shot Dead on Memorial Day - May 30, 1937
On Memorial Day 1937, fifteen hundred workers, families, and supporters marched toward a Chicago steel plant singing union songs and carrying American flags, exercisin...
Worse Than Titanic - May 29, 1914
On May 29, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland sank in fourteen minutes in the St. Lawrence River, killing 1,012 people, more passengers than the Titanic. She carried eve...
Washington's First Mistake - May 28, 1754
On May 28, 1754, a 22-year-old George Washington led a predawn ambush in a Pennsylvania forest that lasted fifteen minutes and set the world on fire. The skirmish at J...
The Children of Lidice - May 27, 1942
On May 27, 1942, two paratroopers dropped from a British aircraft and ambushed one of the most dangerous men in the world on a Prague street corner. The mission succee...
