HISTORY This Week
HISTORY
HISTORY This Week
HISTORY
This week, something momentous happened. Whether or not it made the textbooks, it most certainly made history. Join HISTORY This Week as we turn back the clock to meet the people, visit the places and witness the moments that led us to where we are today.
Monday 23 November 2020 : November 24, 1966. Millions of spectators flood Broadway in New York City to watch the Macy’s Day Parade on Thanksgiving morning. The...
Monday 16 November 2020 : November 16, 1532. Atahualpa, the king of the Inca Empire, marches towards the city of Cajamarca in modern-day Peru, surrounded by 80,000...
Monday 09 November 2020 : November 10, 1969. It’s a Monday. Across the US, parents and babysitters and grandparents and aunts and uncles are turning on the TV,...
Monday 02 November 2020 : November 7, 1876. A little before midnight on election night, the Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes admits defeat and goes to bed....
Wednesday 28 October 2020 : It Was Said, a limited documentary podcast series, looks back on some of the most powerful, impactful and timeless speeches in American...
Monday 26 October 2020 : October 27, 1962. 72,000 feet above Cuba, an American U2 spy plane flies over the island, capturing photo intelligence. It’s been 13 days...
Monday 19 October 2020 : October 19, 1814. An eager audience files into the Holliday Street Theater in Baltimore, about to see a debut performance, described as a...
Monday 12 October 2020 : October 15, 2001. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle receives an innocuous-looking letter. It has childlike handwriting and an elementary...
Monday 05 October 2020 : October 8, 1939. In the Tibetan city of Lhasa, thousands of people have flooded into the streets to welcome the next Dalai Lama, a young boy...
Monday 28 September 2020 : September 30, 1765. Almost a decade before the American Revolution, delegates from four colonies gather in the first, unofficial meeting of...
Monday 21 September 2020 : September 24, 1955. President Eisenhower is asleep in his bed at his in-laws’ house in Denver. At around 2 AM in the morning, he’s...
Monday 14 September 2020 : September 16, 1965. Cesar Chavez and the National Farmworkers Association have been plotting a Mexican-American labor strike for years,...
Monday 07 September 2020 : September 10, 2002. Thieves have broken into basements in two cities in Afghanistan to steal plastic containers. Those containers were...
Tuesday 01 September 2020 : Words move humankind for good and for ill, and in the American experience, our most important public speeches have been both mirrors and...
Monday 31 August 2020 : Sept 5, 1698. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia returns home from a year-long European tour. When noblemen, religious figures and friends...
Monday 24 August 2020 : August 25, 1797. Alexander Hamilton, the former Secretary of the Treasury, has published a new pamphlet. At first, readers assume this is...
Monday 17 August 2020 : August 18, 1920. In the third row of the legislative chamber in Nashville, Tennessee, 24 year-old Harry Burn sits with a red rose pinned to...
Monday 10 August 2020 : August 11, 1973. At 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc plays his first New York City party. The dance floor is...
Monday 03 August 2020 : August 4, 1987. The Federal Communication Commission’s leadership has come together in Washington D.C. to decide the fate of a vital...
Monday 27 July 2020 : July 31, 1492. In cities, towns and villages across late medieval Spain, whole districts have emptied out. Houses abandoned, stores closed,...
Monday 20 July 2020 : July 22, 1934. John Dillinger, America's most famous outlaw, is gunned down by federal agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago....
Monday 13 July 2020 : July 16, 1945. It happened within a millionth of a second. In the New Mexico desert in the early morning hours, a group of scientists...
Monday 06 July 2020 : July 10, 1943. 150,000 British and American soldiers storm the beaches of Sicily in the first Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe. But...
Monday 29 June 2020 : June 30th, 1858. London is a world city, a global center of trade and commerce. But there’s something less glamorous going on in...
Monday 22 June 2020 : June 28, 1970. Hundreds of people start to gather on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s West Village for an anniversary celebration. One...
HISTORY This Week
HISTORY
A Toxic Turkey Day
November 24, 1966. Millions of spectators flood Broadway in New York City to watch the Macy’s Day Parade on Thanksgiving morning. The...
The Inca's Last Stand
November 16, 1532. Atahualpa, the king of the Inca Empire, marches towards the city of Cajamarca in modern-day Peru, surrounded by 80,000...
The Muppet Revolution
November 10, 1969. It’s a Monday. Across the US, parents and babysitters and grandparents and aunts and uncles are turning on the TV,...
Stealing the Presidency
November 7, 1876. A little before midnight on election night, the Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes admits defeat and goes to bed....
It Was Said - Season 1
It Was Said, a limited documentary podcast series, looks back on some of the most powerful, impactful and timeless speeches in American...
Crisis in Cuba
October 27, 1962. 72,000 feet above Cuba, an American U2 spy plane flies over the island, capturing photo intelligence. It’s been 13 days...
Land of the Free?
October 19, 1814. An eager audience files into the Holliday Street Theater in Baltimore, about to see a debut performance, described as a...
Anthrax Attacks
October 15, 2001. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle receives an innocuous-looking letter. It has childlike handwriting and an elementary...
Becoming the Dalai Lama
October 8, 1939. In the Tibetan city of Lhasa, thousands of people have flooded into the streets to welcome the next Dalai Lama, a young boy...
No Representation, No Peace
September 30, 1765. Almost a decade before the American Revolution, delegates from four colonies gather in the first, unofficial meeting of...
The Diet Wars
September 24, 1955. President Eisenhower is asleep in his bed at his in-laws’ house in Denver. At around 2 AM in the morning, he’s...
Grapes for Change
September 16, 1965. Cesar Chavez and the National Farmworkers Association have been plotting a Mexican-American labor strike for years,...
Global Seed Vault
September 10, 2002. Thieves have broken into basements in two cities in Afghanistan to steal plastic containers. Those containers were...
Introducing: It Was Said
Words move humankind for good and for ill, and in the American experience, our most important public speeches have been both mirrors and...
Shaving Russia
Sept 5, 1698. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia returns home from a year-long European tour. When noblemen, religious figures and friends...
The First American Sex Scandal
August 25, 1797. Alexander Hamilton, the former Secretary of the Treasury, has published a new pamphlet. At first, readers assume this is...
Suffrage isn't Simple
August 18, 1920. In the third row of the legislative chamber in Nashville, Tennessee, 24 year-old Harry Burn sits with a red rose pinned to...
The Birth of Hip Hop
August 11, 1973. At 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc plays his first New York City party. The dance floor is...
Killing Fairness
August 4, 1987. The Federal Communication Commission’s leadership has come together in Washington D.C. to decide the fate of a vital...
Convert or Leave
July 31, 1492. In cities, towns and villages across late medieval Spain, whole districts have emptied out. Houses abandoned, stores closed,...
Public Enemy #1
July 22, 1934. John Dillinger, America's most famous outlaw, is gunned down by federal agents outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago....
Destroyer of Worlds
July 16, 1945. It happened within a millionth of a second. In the New Mexico desert in the early morning hours, a group of scientists...
Operation Mincemeat
July 10, 1943. 150,000 British and American soldiers storm the beaches of Sicily in the first Allied invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe. But...
The Great Stink
June 30th, 1858. London is a world city, a global center of trade and commerce. But there’s something less glamorous going on in...
Pride & Protest
June 28, 1970. Hundreds of people start to gather on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s West Village for an anniversary celebration. One...
