Retropod

The one night that changed President Nixon’s fate has stuck with us as a reminder of the limits of presidential power.

A group of poor women in Puerto Rico were the first test subjects for the birth control pill. Were they guinea pigs or pioneers?

Sixty years after Congress welcomed its first woman, it welcomed its first baby.

The Boy Scout movement began 110 years ago on a tiny island just off the southern coast of England.

The anti-Semitic conspiracy theories surrounding the Rothschild family date all the way back to The Battle of Waterloo.

A professor at The University of Virginia was fatally shot by a student in 1840.

For over 50 years, the phrase “under God” was not a part of the Pledge of Allegiance. One sermon changed that.

This episode addresses the history of the bikini in, naturally, two parts.

Linda Brown and her father Oliver Brown are heroes of the civil rights movement. The backstory of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education is more complicated than what you learned in school.

In 1951, a televised Senate hearing caught America’s attention.