How Did We End Up Here?

Watch out for those spooky, scary skeletons! Halloween is the second most popular holiday in the US. It's been popular for a long time. Listen now to hear about how some of your favorite holiday traditions came to be! Click here for music and resources used in this episode.

Grab your swords and ready your noble steeds, we are going on a dragon hunt! Legends about dragons were composed on every continent. Dragons have been part of human storytelling for 5,000 years. That's a lot of stories. Listen now to see how dragons were created and shaped by human perception. Click here for music and resources used for this episode.

If you like the smell of books, then this is the episode for you! Learn about what some of the first libraries were like all the way up to how public libraries impact our communities today.Click here for the music and resources used in the episode.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither were their roads. This episode focuses on the historical impact of the Silk Road, Roman roads, and the Incan Road. Each of these networks present a new aspect of human engineering that brings us to our own American interstate systems. Listen now to see how our roads came to be, and what is the future for American infrastructure. Click here for music and resources.

Nothing like cracking open a cold one with the boys! Except beer wasn't always cold, and it didn't start with the boys... This episode covers the first groups of people around the world that were able to figure out how to brew beer all the way up to the giant manufacturers of today. What did beer mean to people, and what exactly were they drinking? Listen to find out!Click here for music and resources used to make this episode.

Dogs are man's best friend. How did we end up together though? Learn about the evolutionary journey that brought humans and dogs together, and how this relationship changed both species forever. Click here for music and resources used for this episode.

Ancient civilizations from each region of the world has legends about the constellations and stars. Children around the world wish on evening stars and shooting stars. People have always had a fascination with the night sky. There have been many attempts to map out the stars and understand the universe we live in. Listen to learn about the history of the human perception of stars as well as what current research shows us about the stars that we love looking at so much. Click here music links ...

From the ruins of a buried, ancient city to the streets of New York and London, graffiti has been a constant presence. Why do people graffiti? What does the graffiti show us? Listen to learn about the answer to both of these questions as well as how graffiti has shaped a path through history. Click here for music and resources used in this episode.