Welcome to This Day In Medical Care History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle time-travel back to 1834 when an upstart herbalist and natural cures-based physician established an infirmary in the Hill. He challenged the academic docs to start healing the sick, not making them worse with their blood-letting and their "poisons."

Welcome to This Day in Tool-Making History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven time travel back to 1834 when the New Haven Axe Factory went out of business because superior products were being produced upstate in Collinsville.

Welcome to This Day In Fencing History as your host Allan Appel and regular time-traveling co-pilot, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum, learn to cut and thrust as we acquaint ourselves with the Angelo system of sword exercise, all the rage in 1834 New Haven when fighting with swords was being transformed from a military pursuit to a sport.