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  1. Lincoln: The First Presidential Assassination

    <p>Today we're delving into the archives and revisiting Don and Michael Kauffman's conversation on the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln...</p><br><p>On the evening of 14th April, 1865, the Union was celebrating victory in the civil war, won

  2. The Boston Tea Party

    <p>Today we're delving into our back catalogue and revisiting the topic of the Boston Tea Party...</p><br><p>On December 16th 1773, Bostonian colonists took a stand against the British Crown in the Boston Tea Party.</p><br><p>In this episod

  3. Life on a Mississippi Steamboat

    <p>It's one of the most iconic symbols of early Americana; it conjures up images of bustling saloon bars and Mark Twain. But as glamorous as they may seem, there's a dark side the history of the Steamboats of the Mississippi River.</p><br><

  4. What Was The Ghost Dance?

    <p>Reunion with the dead. The return of lands, food supplies and buffalo. The disappearance of white settlers.</p><br><p>By the end of the 19th Century, the forced assimilation of Native American people was official government policy and Na

  5. The German Spies at Pearl Harbor

    <p>What would you do if you discovered that members of your family had spied for the Japanese at Pearl Harbor? When this happened to Christine Kuehn, she wanted to find out more.</p><br><p>Alongside her husband, former journalist Mark Schip

  6. The Quakers' Rebellious Origins

    <p>How could walking naked through town be seen as religious? What about digging up a corpse? Or bursting into church services to cause mayhem?</p><br><p>In this episode, Dr Erica Canela takes Don back to the first years of Quakerism to exp

  7. What Was the American Ice Age?

    <p>For thousands of years, North America was a frozen frontier buried beneath miles-deep ice... How did the first people reach the Americas live here? What was it like to share the land with mammoths, mastodons, and sabre-toothed predators?

  8. Thanksgiving

    <p>In the fall of 1621, a year after the pilgrim ship the Mayflower landed on the coast of New England, the settlers of the Plymouth Colony celebrated their first successful harvest. Joining them at the three day feast were the Wampanoag pe

  9. Crime of the Century: Who Kidnapped Charles Lindbergh Jr?

    <p>The Lindbergh Kidnapping is one of the most influential crimes in American history; it plunged a national hero into an investigation which changed the way America thought about law, justice, and “celebrity” forever.</p><br><p>In this epi

  10. What was the Satanic Panic?

    <p>Why were more than 12 thousand cases of satanic abuse brought in the 1980s? Was the Prince of Darkness walking among us then? Or did something else cause the panic?</p><br><p>Joseph Laycock joins Don for this episode to discuss the so-ca

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