The Thread

By OZY

Society & Culture History

What's The Thread about?

The Thread is an exploration of history’s interlocking lives and events. We turn back the clock, one story at a time, to reveal how various strands are woven together to create a historic figure, a big idea or an unthinkable tragedy. From OZY Media. History. Unwound.

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S E1: Introducing: The Futu...

11.20.2019

A preview of The Future of X, a new podcast from OZY, in which you’ll meet host Fay Schlesinger and fast-forward 50 years to explore the industries and domains that will shape our world, and some of the dreamers doing ...

The Thread episodes:

11.20.2019 S E1: Introducing: The Future of X A preview of The Future of X, a new podcast from OZY, in which you’ll meet host Fay Schlesinger and fast-forward 50 years to explore the industries and domains that will shape our world, and some of the dreamers doing ...
07.25.2019 S E1: Bonus Episode: The Forgotten Giant of Women’s Basketball Nera White dominated her sport for 15 years, and even beat the Soviets at the height of the Cold War. But you’ve probably never heard of the Michael Jordan of women’s basketball.
07.09.2019 S5E6: Successful But Not Equal Thanks to Title IX and the trailblazing women behind it, the U.S. has now dominated women’s soccer for over a quarter century.
07.03.2019 S5E5: The Civil Rights Pioneer That History Forgot The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray was a pioneering civil rights attorney and a co-founder of the National Organization for Women.
06.26.2019 S5E4: Too Strong for a Woman Bernice “Bunny” Sandler’s remarkable behind-the-scenes efforts proved instrumental to the passage of Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in higher education.
06.19.2019 S5E3: These Are the Bodies More than 23 years before Brandi Chastain took off her jersey, the women of the Yale women's crew team were taking off more than theirs.
06.12.2019 S5E2: A Team of Their Own In the summer of 1985, the first U.S. women’s national soccer team made their debut in Italy.
06.05.2019 S5E1: Ours to Win When Brandi Chastain ripped off her jersey after scoring the winning penalty kick in the 1999 Women's World Cup final, her iconic celebration marked the arrival of women’s soccer, both on the global sports stage and in the public imagination.
06.03.2019 S5E1: Season Five Trailer: Let Us Play In Let Us Play, the latest season of The Thread, we tell the hidden story behind the greatest women’s team in American sports history.
04.24.2019 Bonus Episode: A Tale of Two Killers What is it about The Catcher in the Rye that prompted two of the world’s most infamous assassination attempts?
04.17.2019 S4E6: An Insane Defense? The 2012 conviction of Aurora gunman James Holmes really begins almost two centuries earlier in England, with the attempted assassination of the king.
04.10.2019 S4E5: [FIXED] A Star-Spangled Murder Francis Scott Key's only son, Philip Barton Key II, was slain in 1859 by a U.S. congressman and disgruntled cuckold named Daniel Sickles.
04.03.2019 S4E4: America's Pet Murderer This week, we tell the story of the murder of Stanford White.
03.27.2019 S4E3: “The Greatest Love Offering in the History of the World" In 1981, on his way to look for the actress Jodi Foster at Yale, where he had been stalking her, John Hinckley Jr. stopped off in Washington, D.C., and ended up shooting U.S. President Ronald Reagan in front of the ...
03.20.2019 S4E2: An Irresistible Impulse The ultimate act of revenge or the act of a woman driven so crazy by domestic violence that she could not comprehend what she was doing?
03.20.2019 S4E1: Insights Into The Mind of Madness Shortly after midnight on July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm.
03.15.2019 Season Four Trailer: By Way of Insanity OZY's chart-topping podcast is back, this time linking the histories between James Holmes, Lorena Bobbitt and John Hinckley, Jr.
10.29.2018 S3E7: Bonus Episode: From King to Kaepernick Would Martin Luther King, Jr. have taken a knee alongside Colin Kaepernick? Is there any precedent for the protests being waged by high school students in Parkland, Florida? This special bonus episode of The Thread examines how the impact of ...
10.15.2018 S3E6: The Soul Force In the final episode of this season, we trace the path of the revolutionary idea that spread across the globe to become the dominant form of political resistance today. We also examine the role that personal psychology, and even mental ...
10.08.2018 S3E5: ‘I Will Be Heard' William Lloyd Garrison, one of the leading figures of the early abolitionist movement in America, was a major influence on Leo Tolstoy. Garrison believed in using “moral suasion” rather than violence to achieve social change. Armed only with his newspaper ...
10.01.2018 S3E4: The Transformation of Leo Tolstoy Just before his death in 1910, the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy struck up a correspondence with a young lawyer in South Africa named Mohandas Gandhi, one that would change the young Indian’s life. Today Tolstoy is best known for penning ...
09.24.2018 S3E3: Turning Enemies Into Friends The Indian lawyer and activist Mohandas Gandhi was the first leader to take up the age-old doctrines of love and nonviolence and transform them into tools of political and social resistance. In doing so, he would inspire Bayard Rustin and ...
09.17.2018 S3E2: An Angelic Troublemaker The seasoned activist and Quaker Bayard Rustin was King’s mentor in nonviolence and the organizing genius behind the March on Washington in 1963. Many felt that Rustin was on his way to becoming the “American Gandhi.” There was just one ...
09.10.2018 S3E1: The Pride and The Power Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated after leading the most influential protest movement in American history. King revolutionized the use of nonviolent resistance to combat racial injustice in the United States, but the Alabama preacher did not ...
08.27.2018 Season Three Trailer: A History of Nonviolent Resistance Coming September 10, Season 3 of the Thread will chart how a revolutionary idea--nonviolent resistance--changed the course of history.
04.16.2018 S2E6: From MGM to #MeToo The Hollywood casting couch existed long before Harvey Weinstein. In this final episode of the season, we explore some of Weinstein's antecedents in the industry, the scandals and crimes they covered up and how a new generation of Gloria Steinem-inspired ...
04.09.2018 S2E5: The King of Hollywood The film legend Clark Gable was a key figure at the heart of the glamour and excess of the Golden Age of Hollywood. But his rise and scandal-buried reign at the top of the movie world reveal a great deal ...
04.02.2018 S2E4: The Misfits In 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Nevada legislature passed two bills: one to legalize gambling, the other to legalize a six-week waiting period for a divorce. Over the next few decades, hundreds of thousands of people, ...
03.26.2018 S2E3: The Woman Who Will Not Die Marilyn Monroe was larger than life. But beneath the soft-spoken movie star and sex goddess was another woman, one far bolder than most people realize. Monroe was an actress ahead of her time, one who was not afraid to stand ...
03.19.2018 S2E2: The Playboy Mystique Riding the wave of the sexual revolution of the 1950s and 1960s, Hugh Hefner created a male fantasy world in the pages of his Playboy magazine, one that would have lasting consequences for American life and culture. Behind closed doors, ...
03.12.2018 S2E1: Of Ms. and Men A writer, activist and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem has played a pivotal role in the women's movement. But she first garnered national attention in 1963 when she went undercover as a Playboy Bunny and wrote a damning expose ...
03.08.2018 Season Two Trailer: The Birth of #MeToo Coming March 12. Season Two of The Thread will connect the dots between Gloria Steinem and the casting couches of early Hollywood.
12.18.2017 Bonus Episode: From Drug Deals to the New Deal A century before his grandson, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, rose to power, Warren Delano grew very rich from trafficking a highly addictive drug.
12.11.2017 Bonus Episode: The Bard and a Bird Strike In this bonus episode, OZY brings you our first mini-Thread which begins with one of William Shakespeare's characters uttering a single word in 1597 and ends as a passenger plane plunges into the waters outside Boston almost four centuries later.
10.30.2017 S1E6: From Lennon to Lenin In this final episode of the season, host Sean Braswell ties up some of our thread's loose ends, explores some more surprising connections between our characters and reflects on the nature of art, life, fate and redemption.
10.23.2017 S1E5: The Bohemians We chronicle the life and times of Louise Bryant and her husband, John Reed, two Greenwich Village Bohemians who ended up at ground zero for the greatest revolution the world has ever known.
10.16.2017 S1E4: America’s Troubled Shakespeare Considered by many to be “America’s Shakespeare,” Eugene O’Neill revolutionized American drama. But O’Neill suffered greatly for his art, battling alcoholism and depression for decades, and many, including his daughter, suffered for it as well.
10.09.2017 S1E3: Caught Between Two Postage Stamps Wooed by perhaps the greatest American writer of the 20th century, born from the loins of its greatest playwright and ultimately wed to the most famous performer on the planet, Oona O'Neill Chaplin lived in the shadow of three of ...
10.02.2017 S1E2: Holden Caulfield Goes to War If The Catcher in the Rye resonates with people in dark places like Mark David Chapman, then it may be because the novel, and its author, passed through hell itself on the way to publication.
09.24.2017 S1E1: The Murder of John Lennon After shooting the rock star John Lennon in front of the Dakota Building in Manhattan on December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman remained at the crime scene reading his favorite book, The Catcher in the Rye, until police arrived. Chapman ...
09.13.2017 Season One Trailer: From Lennon to Lenin Coming September 25. The Thread's first season will connect the dots between John Lennon's murder and Vladimir Lenin's revolution 63 years earlier.
09.08.2017 Trailer Coming September 25. The Thread's first season will connect the dots between John Lennon's murder and Vladimir Lenin's revolution 63 years earlier.

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The Thread episodes:

S E1: Introducing: The Future of X

S E1: Bonus Episode: The Forgotten Giant of Women’s Basketball

S5E6: Successful But Not Equal

S5E5: The Civil Rights Pioneer That History Forgot

S5E4: Too Strong for a Woman

S5E3: These Are the Bodies

S5E2: A Team of Their Own

S5E1: Ours to Win

S5E1: Season Five Trailer: Let Us Play

Bonus Episode: A Tale of Two Killers

S4E6: An Insane Defense?

S4E5: [FIXED] A Star-Spangled Murder

S4E4: America's Pet Murderer

S4E3: “The Greatest Love Offering in the History of the World"

S4E2: An Irresistible Impulse

S4E1: Insights Into The Mind of Madness

Season Four Trailer: By Way of Insanity

S3E7: Bonus Episode: From King to Kaepernick

S3E6: The Soul Force

S3E5: ‘I Will Be Heard'

S3E4: The Transformation of Leo Tolstoy

S3E3: Turning Enemies Into Friends

S3E2: An Angelic Troublemaker

S3E1: The Pride and The Power

Season Three Trailer: A History of Nonviolent Resistance

S2E6: From MGM to #MeToo

S2E5: The King of Hollywood

S2E4: The Misfits

S2E3: The Woman Who Will Not Die

S2E2: The Playboy Mystique

S2E1: Of Ms. and Men

Season Two Trailer: The Birth of #MeToo

Bonus Episode: From Drug Deals to the New Deal

Bonus Episode: The Bard and a Bird Strike

S1E6: From Lennon to Lenin

S1E5: The Bohemians

S1E4: America’s Troubled Shakespeare

S1E3: Caught Between Two Postage Stamps

S1E2: Holden Caulfield Goes to War

S1E1: The Murder of John Lennon

Season One Trailer: From Lennon to Lenin

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