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This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written. 


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HISTORY This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.

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  • September 11 · 1 hr 45 min

    Blindspot: The Road to 9/11

    On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, we're bringing you Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 – a collaboration between the History Channel and WNYC Studios. This was adapted from the complete nine-part series, which you can find by searching for Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 wherever you get your podcasts.

  • September 7 · 26 min

    9/11: Rescue on the Water

    With the roads, tunnels, and trains shut down, 150 boats pulled off the largest seaborne evacuation in history.

  • S7 · E22
    August 17 · 32 min

    The Wire That Connected the World

    Cyrus Field bet his fortune on one wire from America to England. It broke, and broke, and broke again. Then it changed the planet.

  • July 30 · 38 min

    Fall Out (Finale)

    Listen to all 20 episodes of World War II with Tom Hanks wherever you get your podcasts! The war is over, and the Allies are triumphant. The United States and the Soviet Union initially work together to establish a new world order, but over the course of the next four years these two nations will go from Allies of convenience to ideological adversaries, launching the next phase of global conflict under the shadow of nuclear war. This episode features interviews with (in order of appearance): Michel Paradis, professor, Columbia University Jon Meacham, presidential historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, historian and author Timothy Naftali, senior research scholar, Columbia University Sarada Peri, presidential speechwriter and political analyst Phillips O’Brien, professor, University of St. Andrews Alexandra Richie, professor, Collegium Civitas Dan Carlin, podcaster, Hardcore History Michael Kimmage, professor, Catholic University of America Michael Neiberg, professor, US Army War College Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster A.J. Baime, journalist and author Robert Citino, senior historian, National WWII Museum

  • July 27 · 1 hr 11 min

    Washington: Hero of the Revolution, from The Rest is History

    Sharing an episode of a show we really love, called The Rest is History. Hosted by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the show brings the past to life through gripping storytelling, sharp analysis and a huge sense of drama. From the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Norman Conquest of 1066, to the sinking of the Titanic, the Second World War and the lives of history’s most powerful rulers, Tom and Dominic unpack the people, battles and world-changing events that shaped the modern world. Their latest series explores the Founding Fathers of the United States - the ideas, rivalries and revolutions behind the birth of America. In this episode, Dominic and Tom launch into the extraordinary life and origins of George Washington. Where did George Washington come from, and what was he like? How did he come to take on such a pivotal role in the American Revolution? And, was he really central to America’s triumphant struggle for independence? You can find more episodes of The Rest Is History at https://linktr.ee/RestIshistory.

  • July 16 · 37 min

    From First America: "Merciless Indian Savages"

    We have been told the American Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But that's not what the Declaration of Independence says. According to our founders, in their own words, what they were most upset about was Native Americans. How does a whole country miss a point of its own founding document? That's the question at the heart of a new podcast called First America. Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle, an Indigenous author and the former host of Crooked’s This Land podcast, and featuring leading Native historians, First America unveils how our current political moment was 250 years in the making and how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy. Here’s the first episode. Find First America wherever you get podcasts.

  • June 22 · 29 min

    A Mob Boss Starts A Movement

    How Joe Colombo turned the Mafia’s image problem into an Italian American civil rights crusade.

  • June 19 · 17 min

    Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise – Prologue

    Malcolm Gladwell and President Barack Obama introduce us to one of the most chaotic, complicated, and fascinating times in American history, revealing why Reconstruction still defines our country today. Listen to Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise on Audible, or wherever you get your podcasts. Reconstruction begins where, for most Americans, the story of the Civil War ends: The North is victorious and slavery is abolished. But what happened next was one of the most important decades in American history, a moment when our country grappled with its original sin and imagined — and briefly enacted — a more perfect union. Drawing from archives, letters, diaries, court records, eyewitness testimonies and some of America’s most accomplished scholars and storytellers, Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise explores this unprecedented historical moment in rich, kaleidoscopic detail. The series unpacks a time when a determined band of reformers attempted to radically reimagine American society — from the Constitution to the roots of its economy to the very nature of citizenship itself. Reconstruction was a time when Americans struggled over fundamental questions about our country. Who gets to be a citizen? Who has the right to vote? Who can own property? In short, who belongs? Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise explores what America might have looked like if Reconstruction had truly succeeded, and how the ultimate backlash to Reconstruction prevented our country from becoming a truly multiracial democracy. Guiding us through this extraordinary moment in American history is best-selling author and host of Revisionist History Malcolm Gladwell. He’ll have help from luminaries, historians, and storytellers such as President Barack Obama, Jelani Cobb, Wyatt Cenac, David Blight, Kai Wright, Kellie Carter Jackson, Ashley C. Ford, Manisha Sinha, Kidada Williams, and Eric Foner. This is a series about why America has yet to make good on the promise of Reconstruction, and how it still might. An Audible Original in partnership with History Channel. Produced by Higher Ground and Pushkin Industries.

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