55 years ago today, President Kennedy announced that America's new frontier was the Moon. But his famous speech's biggest applause line was... a football joke?

Briefly - by Today Then, is a short podcast released every Tuesday, except on the last Tuesday of the month when you can hear a brand new full episode of Today Then.

Briefly - by Today Then, is a short podcast released every Tuesday, except on the last Tuesday of the month when you can hear a brand new full episode of Today Then.

On August 29, 1911, sensational newspaper headlines announced that a weathered and emaciated middle-aged man—the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe—had emerged from the foothills near Oroville, California.

Ishi, as he would later be known, quickly became a national media spectacle, an obsession for anthropologists, and a "living specimen" put on display in a San Francisco museum.

On this episode, we celebrate National Carousel Day, held every year on July 25. We explore our own experiences with carousels, and take a tour of the Carousel Capital of The World.

On this episode, we explore three dates in history -- June 27, 1967, June 27, 1983, and June 27, 1988 and their relation to coincidences, rarity, and baseball.

On this episode, we do a deep dive into May 30, 1948: The date of the historic Vanport, Oregon flood, the history of the city, and the aftermath.

For this episode, we explore the backstory of April 25, 1990: The day the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed.

For this episode, we explore March 28, 1881: the day Barnum and Bailey debuted their new conjoined circus in New York City.

For our inaugural episode, we explore February 28, 1954: the day Westinghouse unveiled the H840CK15, the first color television available for sale to the public.