As we wrap up summer, we’re bringing you some of our favorite episodes from the archives. We’ll see you after Labor Day!
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It’s August 30th. This day in 1894, a man by the name of Thomas H “Boston” Corbett is presumed dead in a fire in Minnesota. Boston Corbett led a troubled life, particularly over the previous thirty years, during which he was best known as the man who killed John Wilkes Booth — the man who killed Abraham Lincoln.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the circumstances under which Corbett killed Booth, the way in which he was treated as a hero, and the spiral Corbett’s life took as he embraced the role of “Lincoln’s Avenger.”
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Mixing at Mardi Gras (1992) w/ Oliver Thomas
Lincoln At Cooper Union, The Speech That Changed Everything (1860)
Our Favorite "Making Trouble" Stories
Birth of The Peace Symbol (1958) w/ Ian Chillag
The Long Telegram (1946)
Black History Month Week: Baldwin v Buckley (1965) w/ Nick Buccola
Black History Month Week: Capital B w/ Jelani Cobb
Black History Month Week: Where BHM Came From (1924)
The Anarchist Soup Plot (1916)
"Birth Of A Nation" (1915) w/ Tyler Parry
The Smoking Section (1987) w/ Sarah Milov
The SPAM Strike (1986) w/ Julia Longoria
McDonald's Comes to Moscow (1990)
Here Come the AKAs (1908)
Early Prohibition and The Rise of Weird Liquor Laws (1838)
The U.S. Almost Nukes Itself (1961)
Carter Pardons Draft Dodgers (1977)
Lurleen Wallace, Proxy Governor (1967)
Silver Shenanigans (1980) w/ Bijan Stephen
The Great Boston Molasses Flood (1919) w/ Cara Giaimo
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