History That Hits

By History That Hits

History enthusiasts and curious learners who want to discover the untold stories, pivotal moments, and fascinating characters that shaped the world we live in today.

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June 22, 2026 The Men Who Ate Borax: The Poison Squad and the Birth of Food Safety
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June 21, 2026 The Test That Promised to Measure the Mind: The SAT at 100
On June 23, 1926, thousands of students took a new exam that promised to measure aptitude instead of privilege. A century later, the SAT still sits at the center of arguments over fairness, meritocracy, elite college admissions, and who gets access to opportunity.
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June 20, 2026 Houdini’s Last Escape: The Magician Who Went to War With Ghosts
Harry Houdini died on Halloween, but his strangest battle began before the hospital bed: a war against mediums who claimed they could speak for the dead. In the mourning years after war, séances promised families one more conversation. Houdini, a grieving son and master illusionist, set out to prove many of those miracles were stagecraft.
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June 19, 2026 The Atoll Asked to Move: Bikini, Operation Crossroads, and the Bomb at 80
Before the mushroom cloud became an icon, 167 Marshallese people were told to leave Bikini Atoll temporarily. In July 1946, Operation Crossroads turned Bikini into a peacetime atomic theater, with target ships, cameras, reporters, animals, and two nuclear blasts named Able and Baker.
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June 17, 2026 Before TSA, Before Jetways: The 1926 Law That Taught America to Fly Safely
Before TSA lines and jetways, American flying was a dangerous mix of barnstormers, airmail pilots, pasture runways, and almost no federal oversight. This episode traces how the Air Commerce Act of 1926 gave the Department of Commerce authority to license pilots, certify aircraft, establish airways, build navigation aids, and investigate accidents.
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June 17, 2026 The Book That Taught Nations to Count: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations at 250
A book Adam Smith began “to pass away the time” became one of the most influential works ever written about wealth, labor, trade, empire, and power. For the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, we go beyond the bumper-sticker version of Smith as capitalism’s prophet and return to the moral philosopher behind the famous phrases.
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June 14, 2026 Stooky Bill Blinks: The Ghostly Dummy That Became Television
Before television became a living-room fixture, it was a flickering machine in a cramped Soho attic, staring at a ventriloquist’s dummy named Stooky Bill. On January 26, 1926, John Logie Baird demonstrated working television at 22 Frith Street in London. The images were faint, blurred, and astonishing.
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June 14, 2026 An Arch of Fire Over London: The Great Fire at 360
Before dawn on September 2, 1666, a spark in a London bakery became an arch of fire over an entire city. This episode follows the Great Fire of London through eyewitness panic, Samuel Pepys’ diary, failed firefighting, scapegoating, reconstruction, and the rise of fire insurance.
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June 06, 2026 The Children Who Said No: Soweto at 50
On June 16, 1976, thousands of Soweto schoolchildren marched against compulsory Afrikaans instruction. Police opened fire, and the world saw apartheid’s violence through one unforgettable photograph. This History That Hits episode marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by following the students from classrooms and protest planning to Vilakazi Street, police gunfire, global outrage, and modern Youth Day.
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May 30, 2026 The Girl in the Grease: Gertrude Ederle’s 14-Hour War with the Channel
Before dawn in 1926, Gertrude Ederle stepped into the English Channel covered in grease, wearing a practical suit she helped design, and carrying the doubts of an entire era on her shoulders. Fourteen hours and thirty-nine minutes later, she reached England as the first woman to swim the Channel, breaking the existing men’s record and turning cold water into evidence against every claim that women could not endure.
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FAQs about History That Hits:

How many episodes does History That Hits have?

The podcast currently has 81 episodes available.