Menu
This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Podcast image
Hoover Almost Takes Over Baseball (1951)
19 mins; March 10, 2024
When "Primary" Became A Verb (2004)
18 mins; March 07, 2024
The Ask President Carter 1-900 Number (1977)
16 mins; March 05, 2024
Hangers On Week: Al Smith and Remakes The Democratic Party
23 mins; March 03, 2024
Hangers On Week: Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition
21 mins; February 29, 2024
Hangers On Week: Sowing The Seeds of Trump
17 mins; February 27, 2024
Hangers On Week: Why Candidates Stick Around w/ Amy Walter
30 mins; February 25, 2024
Malcolm X Is Assassinated (1965)
19 mins; February 22, 2024
Dick Cheney Shoots His Friend In The Face (2006)
19 mins; February 20, 2024
NJ Law Calls For "Gradual Emancipation Of Slaves" (1804)
18 mins; February 18, 2024
The FDR Assassination Attempt (1933)
17 mins; February 15, 2024
Mandela Released From Prison (1990)
23 mins; February 13, 2024
The First Execution By Gas Chamber (1924)
18 mins; February 11, 2024
Lockheed Caught Bribing The Japanese Government (1976)
19 mins; February 08, 2024
FDR's Court-Packing Plan Backfires (1937)
22 mins; February 06, 2024
The Sketchy Deal That Makes Hayes President (1877)
22 mins; February 04, 2024
Groundhog Day's Very Weird Origins (1877)
16 mins; February 01, 2024
A Brawl In Congress (1798) w/ Joanne Freeman
22 mins; January 30, 2024
No Nukes In Space (1967)
17 mins; January 28, 2024
Why Do We Vote On Tuesday? (1845)
17 mins; January 25, 2024
Ed Roberts, Father Of Independent Living (2010)
18 mins; January 23, 2024
Marion Barry Caught Smoking Crack (1990)
21 mins; January 21, 2024
The Pentagon, The Building (1943)
15 mins; January 18, 2024
America's Biggest Slave Rebellion (1811)
15 mins; January 16, 2024
America Drags Its Feet on MLK Day (1986)
23 mins; January 14, 2024
The Children's Blizzard (1888)
20 mins; January 11, 2024
Jefferson's Wall Between Church and State (1802)
27 mins; January 09, 2024
Vietnam Draft Lottery Is Exposed (1970) w/ Walt Hickey
26 mins; January 07, 2024
Ike vs. Squirrels (1955) [Archive Episode]
15 mins; January 03, 2024
The Great Idaho Beaver Parachute Drop (1948) w/ Ian Chillag
23 mins; December 31, 2023
A Bombing At LaGuardia Airport (1975)
19 mins; December 28, 2023
The Assassination of Harry and Harriette Moore (1951)
21 mins; December 26, 2023
How Puzzles Explain WWII w/ A.J. Jacobs
20 mins; December 24, 2023
The First Crossword (1913) w/ A.J. Jacobs
21 mins; December 21, 2023
Poor Richard's Almanack (1732)
18 mins; December 19, 2023
When Flying Got Miserable (1978) w/ Ganesh Sitaraman
26 mins; December 17, 2023
Alaskan Natives Embrace Capitalism (1971)
18 mins; December 14, 2023
The Garment Strikes Before Triangle Shirtwaist (1909)
19 mins; December 12, 2023
Louis Riel Needs Grant's Help (1875)
25 mins; December 10, 2023
Lā Kū'oko'a aka Hawaiian Independence Day (1843)
15 mins; December 07, 2023
Du Bois Joins The Communist Party (1961)
14 mins; December 05, 2023
The First Phone In The White House (1878)
17 mins; December 03, 2023
The Alcatraz Occupation (1969) w/ Julian Brave Noisecat [[Archive Episode]]
19 mins; November 30, 2023
The Hopis On Alcatraz (1894)
16 mins; November 28, 2023
A Thanksgiving Potluck!
42 mins; November 22, 2023
JFK Almost Assassinated (1960) [Revisited]
14 mins; November 21, 2023
Joe Hill's Last Will (1915)
25 mins; November 19, 2023
Pence Gets Booed At "Hamilton" (2016)
21 mins; November 16, 2023
Henry Ford Contests An Election (1918)
20 mins; November 14, 2023
The Exploding Whale (1970)
20 mins; November 12, 2023
"The Demon of Andersonville" Executed for War Crimes (1865)
17 mins; November 09, 2023
An Explosion Rocks The Capitol (1983)
16 mins; November 07, 2023
Elected While In A Coma (1980)
12 mins; November 05, 2023
The Unmarked Grave (2019) w/ Joe Richman
21 mins; November 02, 2023
The Americans Fighting In Spain (1938) w/ Adam Hochschild
27 mins; October 31, 2023
The Donora Killer Smog (1948)
14 mins; October 29, 2023
NOW is Next (1966)
16 mins; October 26, 2023
Colin + Obama (2008) w/ Leah Wright Rigueur
24 mins; October 24, 2023
"The Jazz Singer" and Hollywood Empire (1927) w/ Walt Hickey
27 mins; October 22, 2023
Trump Shows Up In New Hampshire (1987) w/ Robert Fleegler
23 mins; October 19, 2023
Carter Restores Jefferson Davis's Citizenship (1978)
17 mins; October 17, 2023
"Operation Clark County" Totally Backfires (2004)
18 mins; October 15, 2023
The Real Free State of Jones (1863)
13 mins; October 12, 2023
The Scrub Bull Trials (1919)
19 mins; October 10, 2023
The Poisoned Tylenol Panic (1982)
20 mins; October 08, 2023
Italy Invades Ethiopia, World Freaks Out (1935) w/ Isaac-Davy Aronson
24 mins; October 05, 2023
The Hiroshima Maidens (1955) w/ Josh Levin
26 mins; October 03, 2023
Yeltsin Refuses To Leave The Plane (1994)
14 mins; October 01, 2023
"Actually, You Forgot Poland" (2004)
17 mins; September 28, 2023
Big Dig Energy (1983) w/ Ian Coss
28 mins; September 26, 2023
Stanislav Petrov Prevents Armageddon (1983)
20 mins; September 24, 2023
'The West Wing' Premieres (1999) w/ Hrishikesh Hirway
23 mins; September 21, 2023
The First Anti-Amalgamation Law (1664)
17 mins; September 19, 2023
What YOU Learned On Your Summer Travels
24 mins; September 17, 2023
The Case For Capitalism (1970) w/ Noel King
25 mins; September 14, 2023
The Reagan's Prime-Time Drug Address (1986) w/ Donovan X Ramsey
22 mins; September 12, 2023
The First Food Nutrition Labels (1971) w/ Xaq Frohlich
20 mins; September 10, 2023
Upton Sinclair's Epic Run For Governor (1933)
16 mins; September 07, 2023
What We Learned On Our Summer Travels
32 mins; September 05, 2023
Adam Mckay is Morris The Cat (1992) [[Archive Episode]]
25 mins; August 31, 2023
The Man Who Killed The Man Who Killed Lincoln (1894) [[Archive Episode]]
17 mins; August 29, 2023
Fred Korematsu's Internment (1942) [[Archive Episode]]
17 mins; August 27, 2023
Missouri's Early Emancipation Proclamation (1861)
12 mins; August 24, 2023
The Bridge To Nowhere (2005)
15 mins; August 22, 2023
Nat Turner's Community (1831) w/ Vanessa Holden [[Archive Episode]]
19 mins; August 20, 2023
The Steam Tunnel Incident and the D&D Panic (1979)
20 mins; August 17, 2023
The Smithsonian, Great Idea (1846)
21 mins; August 15, 2023
"Macaca" (2006) w/ Peter Hamby [[Archive Episode]]
26 mins; August 13, 2023
Budd Trips Decker at the '84 Olympics (1984)
17 mins; August 10, 2023
Clinton Finds Life On Mars (1996)
19 mins; August 08, 2023
The Roots of "Roots" (1976) [[Archive Episode]]
16 mins; August 06, 2023
Clean Up After Your Dog! (1978)
18 mins; August 03, 2023
The Subway Vigilante (1984) w/ Leon Neyfakh
30 mins; August 01, 2023
The Irish-American Gun-Runners (1973) w/ Nate Lavey [[Archive Episode]]
32 mins; July 30, 2023
Thunderation! The Speaker Demands Bean Soup (1904)
10 mins; July 27, 2023
The Plot To Blow Up Hell Gate Bridge (1942) w/ Rebecca Seidel
22 mins; July 25, 2023
The Beer Summit (2009) [[Archive Episode]]
19 mins; July 23, 2023
The Szilard Anti-Nuke Petition (1945)
15 mins; July 20, 2023
The Ft Ontario Holocaust Refugees (1944) w/ Sarah Botstein
22 mins; July 18, 2023
The Lost Robert E. Lee Oath Theory (1975) w/ John Reeves [[Archive Episode]]
23 mins; July 16, 2023
Click here to see more
Useful pages

Apply to teach

Reviews

Help & FAQs

Blog

Spanish Podcast

French Podcast

Italian Podcast

About Us

Contact Us

Terms & Privacy

Find a tutor

Arabic tutors

Chinese tutors

Dutch tutors

English tutors

French tutors

German tutors

Greek tutors

Italian tutors

Japanese tutors

Korean tutors

Portuguese tutors

Romanian tutors

Russian tutors

Spanish tutors

Swedish tutors

Thai tutors

More languages soon!

Languages

Learn Arabic

Learn Chinese

Learn Dutch

Learn English

Learn French

Learn German

Learn Greek

Learn Italian

Learn Japanese

Learn Korean

Learn Portuguese

Learn Romanian

Learn Russian

Learn Spanish

Learn Swedish

Learn Thai

© 2026 LanguaTalk, All Rights Reserved