HISTORY This Week

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Visit htwpod.com for ad-free listening and bonus content! This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written. Stay up-to-date at historythisweekpodcast.com and to get in touch, email us at historythisweek@history.com.HISTORY This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.

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HISTORY This Week

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The Man Who Taught America to Fear Fat

The Uprising: Why the Peasants Loved Their King (w/ Paul Greengrass and Dan Jones)

Saladin at the Gates of Jerusalem

Blindspot: The Road to 9/11

9/11: Rescue on the Water

The Radium Girls Fight Back

Free preview: How Las Vegas Made America a Gambling Nation (HTW+)

Did Homer Write the Odyssey? (Was He Even Real?)

The Wire That Connected the World

The French Monarchy Falls in a Day

Arsenic, Adultery, and an American on Trial

Fall Out (Finale)

Washington: Hero of the Revolution, from The Rest is History

Ben Franklin Gets Fired

From First America: "Merciless Indian Savages"

The Forgotten Father of Air Conditioning

The *Other* Declaration of Independence (Part II)

Free HTW+ preview: Ken Burns on the American Revolution (Extended Interview)

The *Other* Declaration of Independence (Part I)

A Mob Boss Starts A Movement

Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise – Prologue

Malcolm Gladwell on Reconstruction’s Unfinished Questions

Why the Crusades Became Cool Again

How Higgins and His Boats Won the War

WWII with Tom Hanks (Episode 1 – The Beginning)

The Secretary of War Who Feared the Bomb

Bonnie and Clyde’s Final Ride

The Berlin Airlift and the Birth of the New World Order (Part 2)

Introducing: Family Lore

Surviving the Mad Propagandist of Nazi Berlin (Part 1)

Parting the Desert Between Two Seas

One Eco-Arson After Another: The Earth Liberation Front

Jefferson’s Trade War Shuts Down America

A Good, Not Great Lake (from Points North)

Oil Fields, Bags of Cash, a Presidency Exposed

William Parker’s War on Slave Catchers

The First Robot

HTW Live: Busting the Myths of Irish Immigration — Recorded at the Tenement Museum

From Radio Diaries: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier

Axis Sally’s Nazi Radio

Stalin Is Dead! | Сталин мертв!

Disneyland on a Deadline

How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River

Trailer: HTW Season Premiere This Monday!

Shut Out of the Majors, They Created Their Own

The Great Comic Book Scare

The Dogs Who Saved Nome, Alaska

From Hitler to Hippies: The Surprising Origins of the VW Beetle | Presenting Business History

Houdini Defies Death

The Great Boston Molasses Flood

The Other Declaration of Independence (Part II)

The Other Declaration of Independence (Part I)