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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.

Welcome to This Day In Mud-Slinging Political History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time-travel back to the mid-terms of 1834 when New Haven Whigs called rising Democratic star Martin Van Buren a "mole," a mammal related to the rat, and whole lot worse.

On this episode, host Tom Ficklin speaks to Yale Professor Caleb Smith about his new book, "The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict" (Random House, 2016), an 1858 narrative by Austin Reed, an African American inmate of New York’s Auburn State Prison.

Mayor Toni Harp speaks out on prostitution stings, the FBI director's October Surprise, and the drought and the holiday tree.

Welcome to This Day In Dental Pain History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel-back to that pre-anesthesia year of 1834 when excessive consumption of Halloween sweets could land you in the feared dentist's chair.

On this episode, host and WNHH station manager Lucy Gellman checks in with language chef Robert Aiudi about the origins of Halloween and growth of the candy industry in the U.S

On this episode, host Babz Rawls-Ivy talks to New Havener Enroue Awo Onigbonna Halfkenny about his experience as an Ifa priest, clinical social worker, and community organizer and how the three together have created new possibilities for healing and growth in his life and the lives of others.

Markeshia Ricks, Joe Ugly and Babz Rawls-Ivy blast a developer's initial approach to Fair Haven about his plan to rebuild the old Strong School; celebrate SeeClickFix; dive into the City Clerk controversy; and wonder why the cops round up prostitutes and publicize their desperate photographs.

Spoken word artist and performer Kenyon Adams performs an excerpt from Ron McCurdy's Langston Hughes Project, hitting Morse recital hall on Friday, October 28.

On “Kica’s Corner,” host Kica Matos welcomes community activist Barbara Fair and lawyer Patricia Kane, who supported Corey Menafee earlier this year, to speak about two events happening on Friday, October 26 a rally at 3pm hosted by the Change the Name Coalition demanding that Yale rename Calhoun College, and a protest against police brutality outside of the New Haven Police Department at 5pm. During the show, the reasons for renaming Calhoun College are discussed, as is the case of Fair’s daughter Holly Tucker, who was stopped and allegedly assaulted by the police on September 10 of this year.