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American Rewind

james brown

A Daily, Bite-Sized History of the people, places, and pivotal moments in American history.

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108 episodes

  1. They Blamed Her — The True Story Behind the Great Chicago Fire 1:00
  2. He Wrestled with Faith, Then Faced Machine Guns: York’s True-Life Tale 1:01
  3. They Board a Yellow Bus and Cross a Country Line: The Port Roberts School Run 1:00
  4. Why America Is Hooked on Conspiracy Films: Insights from Barna Donovan 2:31:44
  5. He Walked Barefoot and Sold Saplings — The Wild Tale of Johnny Appleseed 1:00
  6. I Found the Civil War in My Family Tree — and It Changes Everything with Ed Ayers 52:23
  7. They Wanted Rockets for the Pentagon — He Picked NASA and Open Science 1:00
  8. He Turned Up in a Gutter: The Strange Last Days of Edgar Allan Poe 1:00
  9. How He Shut Them Down: Reagan’s 'I Will Not Make Age an Issue' Moment 1:00
  10. Historian Kathy Sheehan Traces How Samuel Wilson Became 'Uncle Sam' — She Presents the Evidence 56:44
  11. Barbara Jordan's 15 Minutes Defending the Constitution That Helped Topple Nixon 1:00
  12. They Carried America’s Letters: The Pony Express’ 1860 Endeavor Through Plains, Deserts, and Mountains 1:00
  13. God Bless, Adios: Elvis' Last Concert 1:00
  14. The Boston Tea Party the First Defiant Statement of Independence 1:00
  15. The Meatpacker’s Joke That Stuck: How He and His 'U.S.' Barrels Became Uncle Sam 1:00
  16. When DiMaggio Extended His Streak to 56 1:00
  17. John Wesley Powell: How He Strapped a Wooden Armchair to the Lead Boat and Conquered Raging Rivers 1:00
  18. May 10, 1869 — He missed the spike, they hammered history home in Utah 1:00
  19. They Were Running Low on Ammunition — the Bloody Fight on Breed's Hill 1:00
  20. How Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase Stamped "In God We Trust" on American Coinage 1:01
  21. How Martin Luther King Became the Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1:00
  22. How He Proved Them Wrong: Roone Arledge's Gamble That Launched Monday Night Football 1:01
  23. He Couldn't Tune a Guitar — So He Rewired It: The Leo Fender Origin Story 1:00
  24. How he saved the catcher’s face: Fred Thayer’s wire-cage fix for broken teeth 1:01
  25. Dewey vs. Truman: The Legendary Oops That Cemented a Presidency 1:00
  26. They Said Primetime Football Would Tank — He Proved 'Em Wrong with Extra Cameras, Slow‑Mo Replays and Cosell's Chutzpah 1:01
  27. George Washington Walked Away — Why You Should Care About His Farewell Warning 1:00
  28. You'd Feel the Blast: How a Fireball and Shockwave Lit Cape Kennedy 1:01
  29. You’ll Love This: How Jerry and Joe Turned Depression-Era Struggle into Superman 1:01
  30. How One Track Launched Elvis, Buddy Holly and the Rest — We Trace Rock’s First Boom 1:00
  31. How He Nailed a Bedsheet and Invented the Drive-In: Richard Hollinshead’s 1930 Backyard Experiment 0:59
  32. The Debt Was the Price of Liberty — How He Sold It to a Skeptical Nation 1:00
  33. They left a stump for decades — he tells how the Washington Monument finally rose 1:00
  34. They Built YouTube Above a Pizzeria: He Tells How Free Videos Became a Billion-Dollar Mess 1:00
  35. When The Simpsons and Married With Children Crashed the Big Three — He Breaks Down the Coup 1:00
  36. He Told Coaches 'Fix It or Else': The 1905 Season That Nearly Killed College Football 1:00
  37. How Edison Changed Sound Forever 1:00
  38. Eisenhower's Highway Act: Changing America Forever 1:00
  39. When Music Meets Mayhem at Woodstock 1:00
  40. The Life and Times of a War Hero 1:00
  41. A Game for the Ages: The Shot Heard 'Round the World 1:00
  42. Who Shot JR? The 80s TV Mystery That Gripped America 1:00
  43. Kennedy vs. Nixon: A Debate for the Ages 1:00
  44. The Mysterious Case of D.B. Cooper 1:11
  45. Carl Sagan and the Quest to Capture Humanity 1:11
  46. How Basketball Was Born from a Rainy Day 1:00
  47. Meet the Woman Who Created Monopoly and Got Nothing 1:11
  48. The Comeback Kid: Clinton's Fight in New Hampshire 1:11
  49. The Making of a President: Lincoln's Humble Beginnings 1:00
  50. A Duel to Remember: Hamilton and Burr's Last Stand 1:11