The Mystery of D.B. Cooper | The Man in Row 18 | 1
On November 24th, 1971, a man on a Boeing 727 bound for Seattle handed a flight attendant a note that read, “Miss, I have a bomb here.” No one knew the man’s real name. But soon, the press was calling...
19 Maj 202135min
Bleeding Kansas | The Man Who Sparked the Civil War | 5
John Brown has been called many things: fanatic, hero, terrorist, martyr, zealot. Some of his contemporaries, including Frederick Douglass, believed that were it not for his raid on Harpers Ferry, the...
12 Maj 202143min
Bleeding Kansas | His Soul Goes Marching On | 4
On October 17th, 1859, John Brown was barricaded inside the federal armory at Harpers Ferry with his hostages and his remaining followers. His attempt to lead an antislavery insurrection had failed. A...
5 Maj 202138min
Bleeding Kansas | The Raid on Harpers Ferry | 3
In December 1858, John Brown was back in Kansas and Missouri, making headlines for dramatic and deadly raids on plantations. He and his followers freed 11 enslaved men and women and led them on an 1,1...
28 Apr 202136min
Bleeding Kansas | The Pottawatomie Massacre | 2
On the night of May 24th, 1856, radical abolitionist John Brown and seven of his followers crept along the banks of Kansas’s Pottawatomie Creek and stormed a proslavery settlement. They dragged five m...
21 Apr 202139min
Bleeding Kansas | John Brown's Crusade | 1
In the 1850s, the United States was lurching toward a crisis over slavery -- and abolitionist John Brown stepped into the fray. Brown believed it was his God-given destiny to destroy slavery. His crus...
14 Apr 202140min
America's Monuments | The Trouble With Confederate Statues | 7
In recent years, there’s been a movement to remove statues of Confederate leaders and other monuments that some see as celebrations of America’s racist history. But does taking down these statues help...
7 Apr 202138min
America's Monuments | 58,000 Names | 6
The Vietnam War was one of the most divisive conflicts in American history. Over 58,000 Americans died in the fighting; many more returned home with wounds both visible and hidden. When veterans lobbi...
31 Mars 202137min
