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WILLIE SUTTON Ep. 1 | “Irishtown”
Infamous America - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsWillie Sutton grows up in a tough Irish neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York where he idolizes the gangsters who run the local docks. At the age of 10, he commits his first serious theft. Future crimes and false accusations force him to go on the run before he joins a gang of professional thieves. ...
World War I | Preparedness | 1
American History Tellers - April 03, 2024 07:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn June 1914, a gunman assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This event set off a chain reaction that plunged Europe’s major powers, and the wider world, into all-out war. President Woodrow Wilson was determined to keep the United State...
Listen Now: American Scandal
American History Tellers - April 02, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn the 1990s and early 2000s, Enron was like no corporation on earth. It was the ultimate corporate success story. But the key to Enron’s success? Accounting fraud. At the time, the scale of illegal manipulation of the American financial system was unprecedented. The sheer breadth and c...
History Daily: The Hale-Bopp Comet
American History Tellers - April 01, 2024 07:01 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsApril 1, 1997. The Hale-Bopp Comet reaches the closest point to the sun on its long loop through space, presenting a magnificent spectacle to stargazers on Earth. You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or for all that and more, go to IntoHistory.com. History Daily ...
Encore: Lewis and Clark I The Long Way Home | 3
American History Tellers - March 27, 2024 07:03 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsAfter 18 months and over two thousand miles, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery had reached the Pacific Ocean. Now, they would have to find their way back. And in a last-ditch bid for glory, they would split up the Corps into smaller groups, hoping to map more river routes and make co...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 6 | “The Truth of Patty Hearst”
Infamous America - March 20, 2024 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsMore than a year and a half after Patty Hearst was kidnapped, her legal saga plays out in court and in the media. In court, she portrays herself as an innocent victim who was forced to participate in criminal activities. In early media encounters, she sounds like she genuinely joined the revoluti...
Encore: Lewis and Clark I Across the Rockies | 2
American History Tellers - March 20, 2024 07:01 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn the spring of 1805, Lewis and Clark resumed their journey up the Missouri River in search of the Pacific. But to reach the ocean, they would have to cross the towering Rocky Mountains. It was a forbidding task, and one they couldn’t achieve alone. They would need the help of their yo...
Listen Now: The Spy Who
American History Tellers - March 19, 2024 00:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsThese are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing to very different rules. The Spy Who, hosted by Indira Varma and Raza Jaffrey, takes you deep inside that shadow world to meet spies who risked ev...
History Daily: The Execution of the Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar
American History Tellers - March 15, 2024 07:01 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsMarch 18, 1314. Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or for all that and more, go to IntoHistory.com History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser. Go to HistoryDail...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 5 | “The End of the The SLA”
Infamous America - March 13, 2024 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsPatty Hearst and the other two surviving members of the SLA connect with new recruits and flee to Pennsylvania to hide from the police. Before long, the group returns to northern California and conducts a bank robbery that has fatal consequences. The FBI picks up the trail of the elusive fugitive...
Encore: Lewis and Clark I Into the Wild | 1
American History Tellers - March 13, 2024 07:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn 1803, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began a westward journey that would transform America. Their mission was to head up the Missouri River and find a route through the uncharted west to the Pacific Ocean. The journey was full of risk. But no danger loomed larger in thei...
Listen Now: The Cat in the Hat Cast
American History Tellers - March 07, 2024 09:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsHold on tight and prepare to be whisked away on a weekly adventure with Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat! In a world full of delightful mix-ups and exhilarating mayhem, the mischievous Cat takes the reins and enlightens the ever-cautious Fish on the art of hosting a perfectly poised podca...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 4 | “The L.A. Shootout”
Infamous America - March 06, 2024 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsThe SLA feels heat from the FBI and law enforcement in northern California, so the group moves south to Los Angeles. Patty Hearst and two other members drive to a sporting goods store to buy supplies, but the simple errand takes a dramatic turn for the worse. The trio ends up on the run through L...
The Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman’s Goodbye Song | 5
American History Tellers - March 06, 2024 08:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped her enslaver in Maryland and freed herself. Over the next several years she took great personal risks, traveling back below the Mason-Dixon line at least a dozen times to free family and friends as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Today, Lindsay i...
History Daily: Conquistador Hernán Cortés Arrives In Mexico
American History Tellers - March 04, 2024 08:01 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsMarch 4, 1519. Hernán Cortés arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth. You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or for all that and more, go to IntoHistory.com. History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser. Go to HistoryDaily.c...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 3 | “The Hibernia Robbery”
Infamous America - February 28, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsAfter more than two months in captivity, Patty Hearst emerges from the shadows and helps the SLA rob a bank in northern California. The public is shocked to see images of the former college student who now looks like an armed revolutionary. A radio station receives a recording in which Patty proc...
The Underground Railroad | Journey’s End | 4
American History Tellers - February 28, 2024 08:01 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn December 1850, Harriet Tubman saved three family members from an auction block in a daring rescue in Cambridge, Maryland. It was the start of one of the most legendary careers in the annals of the Underground Railroad. Underground activists like Tubman faced enormous danger under th...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 2 | “The Ransom”
Infamous America - February 21, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsThe kidnappers contact Patty Hearst’s family and make a strange and unprecedented demand. The SLA wants the wealthy Hearst family to set up a food distribution program throughout California. The Hearsts quickly organize a program, but it debuts with disastrous results. And the world hears the fir...
The Underground Railroad | Crossing the Line | 3
American History Tellers - February 21, 2024 08:01 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsOn the morning of April 16th, 1848, dozens of Washington, D.C. slaveowners woke up to find that their slaves were gone. The previous night, 77 enslaved men, women, and children had quietly run away and boarded a ship docked in the Potomac River. It was the largest single escape attempt...
History Daily: The Battle of Lugdunum
American History Tellers - February 20, 2024 08:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsFebruary 19, 197 CE. Septimius Severus' victory at the Battle of Lugdunum finally establishes him as the sole ruler of the Roman Empire. You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or for all that and more, go to IntoHistory.com History Daily is a co-production of Airsh...
PATTY HEARST Ep. 1 | “The SLA”
Infamous America - February 14, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsOn February 4, 1974, strangers burst into the college apartment of Patty Hearst and kidnap her at gunpoint. While she begins her stay in captivity, she learns about her kidnappers. They are a ragtag collection of hopeful revolutionaries who call themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. They are...
The Underground Railroad | Vigilance | 2
American History Tellers - February 14, 2024 08:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn the 1830s, abolitionism became a political force to be reckoned with. In the face of harassment and mob violence, Black and white abolitionists staged rallies, published newspapers, and flooded Congress with antislavery petitions. Increasingly, they made up the rank and file of the U...
The Underground Railroad | The Light of Freedom | 1
American History Tellers - February 07, 2024 08:01 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn the early 1800s, slavery rapidly expanded across the American South. But each year, thousands of courageous enslaved men, women, and children fled their owners in search of freedom. And in Philadelphia, secret allies came to their aid. Quaker abolitionists collaborated with free Blac...
The Manhattan Project | 'Oppenheimer' with Kai Bird | 4
American History Tellers - January 31, 2024 08:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsFollowing the success of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. sought to develop a potentially more powerful and deadly weapon – the Hydrogen Bomb. Despite having led the team at Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer became an outspoken opponent of the H-Bomb. His stance made him enemies who soug...
UPDATE | “Summer of 1876” Event Announcements!
Infamous America - January 24, 2024 09:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsJoin us for two upcoming events in 2024 about Chris’s book, “The Summer of 1876” February 2, 2024 – 2:00-3:00pm Presentation 3:00pm Book Signing Scottsdale, Arizona Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West Presentation and Book Signing **FREE to the public March 9-10, 2024 Tucson, Arizon...
The Manhattan Project | Devastating Success | 3
American History Tellers - January 24, 2024 08:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn Spring of 1945, the tides of World War 2 turned. Germany surrendered to the Allies, but Japan vowed to keep fighting. To prevent further casualties, America knew they would have to demonstrate their power, and force Japan to surrender quickly. At Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer and...
History Daily: The Northern Cheyenne Face Off Against the US Army
American History Tellers - January 22, 2024 08:01 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsJanuary 22, 1879. After years of displacement, the northern Cheyenne, led by Chief Morning Star, face off against the U.S. Army in an attempt to return to their ancestral lands. You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music app. Or for all that and more, go to IntoHistory.com. ...
BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 6 | “Public Enemy No. 1”
Infamous America - January 17, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.6K ratingsShortly after the Little Bohemia shootout, the celebrity criminals of the 1930s start to experience a reckoning. They fall one by one: Bonnie and Clyde, then John Dillinger, then Pretty Boy Floyd. In the autumn of 1934, Lester Gillis, aka George “Baby Face” Nelson, becomes the third man to carry ...
The Manhattan Project | Secret Cities | 2
American History Tellers - January 17, 2024 08:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsIn Spring of 1943, hundreds of scientists and technicians moved to a remote location in the mountains of New Mexico to work at a secret laboratory. Under the guidance of their leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, they rushed to figure out how to channel the power of an atomic chain reaction t...
Listen now: The Best One Yet
American History Tellers - January 16, 2024 09:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 17.3K ratingsFeel brighter every day with The Best One Yet, a 20-minute pop-biz podcast that serves up the top 3 stories spanning pop culture & business news, every morning, with fresh takes you can pretend you came up with — Pairs perfectly with your morning ritual. Listen to The Best One Yet o...
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