Retropod

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Retropod episodes

July 11, 2019 The oldest surviving banjo recording
Charles Asbury’s digitized songs serve as a time capsule to the music of the 19th century.
6 min
July 10, 2019 The Jedwabne massacre
Raw questions of complicity versus compulsion have surrounded the 1941 murders of a Polish village's Jewish residents.
4 min
July 09, 2019 The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'
On display in Washington, D.C. are the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and another document that details a fundamental institution in American life: baseball.
5 min
July 08, 2019 The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
Benjamin Lay wrote one of the first treatises against slavery in Colonial America, a time when many prosperous Pennsylvania Quakers were slave owners. But the Quakers disowned Lay for speaking out.
7 min
July 05, 2019 Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office
Sixty years after Congress welcomed its first woman, it welcomed its first baby.
4 min
July 04, 2019 Thomas Jefferson's last letter
Somehow, in the depths of his personal misery towards the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson once again found his powerful way with words.
4 min
July 03, 2019 The epic bender that launched America
George Washington and his fellow partiers racked up a hefty bill--$15,000 in today’s currency--celebrating the completion of the Constitution.
4 min
July 02, 2019 The time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
In 1998, the world briefly panicked over an asteroid that seemed headed straight for Earth.
4 min
July 01, 2019 Suzanne Lenglen, the first goddess of tennis
Suzanne Lenglen was physically ferocious, always fashionable and a disrupter of convention.
4 min
June 28, 2019 The first pride parade
The very first pride parade was held in 1964 and was a bit calmer than what we think of today.
4 min

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Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters - forgotten heroes, overlooked villains,…