History Dispatches
365 episodes — Page 1 of 8
How Star Wars almost never happened - Part 1
Aug 24, 202616 min
Story of the Polygraph
Aug 21, 202621 min
Roger Bannister and the 4-minute mile
Aug 19, 202620 min
Sliced Bread and the time it was banned
Aug 17, 202619 min
WebcamGate - The High School Spying Scandal
Aug 14, 202632 min
The Defenestrations of Prague - How throwing someone out a window sparked a religious war
Aug 12, 202618 min
ParaBeavers - Idaho’s Parachuting Beavers
Aug 10, 202614 min
1975 LaGuardia Airport Bombing
Aug 7, 202620 min
The History of Calvin and Hobbes
Aug 5, 20261h 0m
The life - and afterlife - of Henrietta Lacks
Aug 3, 202620 min
Madoc and Welsh Indians
Jul 31, 202624 min
Hay Meadow Massacre
Jul 29, 202620 min
Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Jul 27, 202623 min
Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in history
Jul 24, 202617 min
History of the QWERTY Keyboard
Jul 22, 202621 min
The Colossus of Rhode: The greatest statue of the ancient world
Jul 20, 202622 min
Flint Water Crisis
Jul 17, 202624 min
The Truth Behind Troy
Jul 15, 202621 min
Battle of Tsushima: the birth of modern naval warfare
Jul 13, 202624 min
The Land Lobster: The world's rarest insect
Jul 10, 202619 min
Navajo Code Talkers
Jul 8, 202617 min
The Paraguayan War: South America's Deadliest War
Jul 6, 202620 min
Jonathan the Tortoise: The world's oldest living land animal
Jul 3, 202616 min
Alexis St. Martin and the gunshot that changed science
Jul 1, 202616 min
Marcus Aurelius: The philosopher emperor
Jun 29, 202627 min
Project Habakkuk: the iceberg aircraft carrier
Jun 26, 202617 min
10-Cent Beer Night: What could go wrong?
Jun 24, 202617 min
Shroud of Turin: Unraveling the truth
Jun 22, 202624 min
North Sentinel Island: The World's Most Isolated People
Jun 19, 202617 min
Curse of Tippecanoe: The Deadly Presidential Prophecy
Jun 17, 202613 min
Viking Shield Maidens: Fact, Fiction, or Both?
Jun 15, 202614 min
The Centennial Light: The Bulb That Refused to Burn Out
Jun 12, 202617 min
Haymarket Affair: Blood, Bombs, and Labor Rights
Jun 10, 202624 min
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon: Wonder or Myth?
Jun 8, 202621 min
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Encore)
Jun 5, 202627 min
The 335 Year War (Encore)
Jun 4, 202610 min
The Rosetta Stone - the Key to Unlocking Egypt's Past (Encore)
Jun 3, 202621 min
Catacombs of Paris (Encore)
Jun 2, 202615 min
Bobbi Gibb - the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon (Encore)
Jun 1, 202614 min
Last of the Mammoths
May 29, 202620 min
Battle of the Bogside
May 28, 202624 min
Typhoid Mary
May 27, 202617 min
Church of Bones - Sedlec Ossuary
May 26, 202614 min
American War Movies
May 25, 202619 min
Apollo 1 Disaster
May 22, 202617 min
Max von Pettenkofer - the Father of Modern Hygiene
May 21, 202618 min
Exploding Whale of Florence
May 20, 202615 min
The Frank Slide
May 19, 202615 min
Henry Knox and the Guns of Ticonderoga
May 18, 202619 min
Sergeant Gander
May 15, 202610 min