Retropod

Retropod

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Retropod episodes

October 21, 2019 The first campus shooting
A professor at The University of Virginia was fatally shot by a student in 1840.
5 min
October 18, 2019 The origins of the Unknown Soldier
The story of how the anonymous soldier came to rest inside the famous tomb is almost as unknown as his identity.
7 min
October 16, 2019 America and warfare were never the same after World War I
Along with staggering death tolls, the "Great War" generated memorable literature, geopolitical upheaval, hope, disillusion, the Russian Revolution and the seeds of World War II.
5 min
October 15, 2019 The campus massacre before Kent State
The first mass police shooting on a U.S. college campus happened two years before the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University.
6 min
October 14, 2019 Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
Mark Twain first laid eyes on a “newfangled typing machine,” as he called it, sometime in the early 1870s.
6 min
October 11, 2019 The presidential pardon the country never forgot
When Gerald Ford took over the presidency after Richard Nixon’s resignation, he soon made a controversial choice: he pardoned Nixon.
6 min
October 10, 2019 How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
Some believed that a lottery was more democratic than a vote.
6 min
October 09, 2019 Mary Ann Van Hoof and her Marian apparitions
In 1950, Mary Ann Van Hoof gathered an estimated 100,000 people to see the Virgin Mary on a farm in Necedah, Wisconsin.
7 min
October 08, 2019 Close encounters with the Capitol's Demon Cat
From the mid-1800s to well into the 20th century, the Capitol’s Demon Cat was the top dog of Washington ghost stories.
5 min
October 07, 2019 New York's mad bomber
In 1956, New York City’s bomb squad used criminal profiling to catch a terrorist known as “The Mad Bomber.”
8 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,…

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