American Esoterica

It's the SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL - let's celebrate our 100th episode with a giant fireworks finale of history.

Sometimes, you have to strike the empire back, especially if you're a coal miner in 1921.

History isn't a series of boxes with defined edges - it's a continuum, and our connections to the past are deeper than we think.

Come meet Conotocarious. All 46 of them.

A bizarre conspiracy to cover up the time a robot from the future attacked the First Lady with a sled.

THIS race came down to the wire...the telephone wire.

The world got a glimpse of the future in Chicago in 1893. Your breakfast would never be the same.

A story about gang warfare, piracy, sharks, death by ammonia suffocation, and the people who killed the geese that laid the golden eggs, pretty much literally.

State of the art technology shows weakness against cheap drone. Difficulty: 70 years ago.

She was the inspiration for the Pinkerton Detective Agency's famous slogan, and all it took was stopping the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Meet the first female private detective in the United States, Kate Warne.