A podcast about stories in history that shook America.

Honda and Toyota rose from the ashes of post WWII Japan, turning the Japanese auto industry into a global force

John R Fox made the ultimate sacrifice in the heat of battle in WWII

Billions of locust descended onto the Great Plains in 1874

The poor Irish farmers of Northern Ireland rose in armed rebellion in 1770 after their British landlords evicted thousands of them from their homes

Gabriel and George Rains changed warfare forever when they developed the first land mine

The discovery of an mysterious runestone in Minnesota

Gang warfare on the waterfront

How rivers catching fire helped kickstart the modern environmentalist movement

Voices in the dark