American History Tellers
The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced to our history, but how well do you really know the stories that made America? We'll take you to the events, the times and the people that shaped our nation. And we'll show you how our history affected them, their families and affects you today. Hosted by Lindsay Graham (not the Senator). From Wondery, the network behind American Scandal, Tides of History, American Innovations and more.
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 446
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | The 19th Amendment | 5
As America entered World War I, the suffrage movement split into a two-pronged attack. Alice Paul and her National Woman’s Party took their protests to the White House gates. Meanwhile, Carrie Chapma…
00:41:35 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Silent Sentinels | 4
In March 1913, thousands of suffrage activists converged on Washington, D.C. for a new form of protest. They were going to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to demand an amendment to the U.S. Constituti…
00:40:45 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
History Daily: The Death of Queen Elizabeth I
March 24, 1603. After a reign of 44 years, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, bringing the Tudor dynasty to an end.
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00:18:08 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Passing the Torch | 3
As the 20th century dawned, a new generation of women rose to take control of the suffrage cause. These young activists were going to college, delaying marriage, and pursuing careers. Their political…
00:40:49 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | The Trial of Susan B. Anthony | 2
On Election Day 1872, Susan B. Anthony walked into a polling place in Rochester, New York and boldly cast her ballot. Her action was an escalation in women’s fight for the vote. Days later, she was a…
00:39:26 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
History Daily: Alexander Graham Bell Makes the First Telephone Call
March 10, 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call in history, revolutionizing human communication.
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00:16:47 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
ENCORE: The Fight for Women's Suffrage | Created Equal | 1
On July 19th, 1848, 300 female and male delegates gathered in a church in Seneca Falls, New York for America’s first women’s rights convention. After two days, 100 of the attendees signed the Declara…
00:41:44 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Buffalo Soldiers | Suffering in Silence | 4
Between 1870 and 1899, only twelve Black cadets were admitted to the US military academy at West Point, and of those twelve, only three went on to graduate. Of the Black cadets who persevered, all fa…
00:37:45 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
History Daily: The Battle of Karnal
February 24, 1739. The Persian leader Nader Shah wins a decisive victory in India at the Battle of Karnal. The fallout from the battle shatters the Mughal Empire, leaving the sub-continent vulnerable…
00:14:16 |
Mon 24 Feb 2025
Buffalo Soldiers | The Last to Leave | 3
On an April morning in 1880, West Point cadet Johnson Chestnut Whittaker failed to appear at 6 a.m. roll call. He had endured continuous abuse from his white classmates and was found unconscious and …
00:36:37 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Buffalo Soldiers | Cadets of Courage | 2
In May 1870, James Webster Smith arrived in West Point, New York, in the hopes of becoming the first Black cadet to attend the U.S. Military Academy. While facing West Point’s famously difficult curr…
00:38:08 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
History Daily: David Bowie Becomes Ziggy Stardust
February 10, 1972. When his music career begins to stagnate, David Bowie reinvents himself with an alien alter-ego he names Ziggy Stardust.
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00:15:42 |
Mon 10 Feb 2025
Buffalo Soldiers | The Brass Letters | 1
In the spring of 1865, with the Civil War finally over, American lawmakers began to debate whether Black soldiers would have a permanent place in the peacetime Army. Some 180,000 Black men had fought…
00:38:35 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
The Irish Famine Relief Mission | Ship of Hope | 1
In the winter of 1846, Irish immigrants in America began to hear troubling news from their home country: a potato famine was ravaging the countryside and driving desperate farmers and families into t…
00:39:11 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
History Daily: The End of the Siege of Leningrad
January 27, 1944. Soviet forces defeat the German army outside Leningrad, ending an 872-day siege.
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00:15:44 |
Mon 27 Jan 2025
The Wright Brothers | Controlling the Skies | 4
Before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903, other air enthusiasts had tried to find the answer to powered, controlled human flight. And once Wilbur and Orvil…
00:40:31 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
The Wright Brothers | Coming Down to Earth | 3
In the summer of 1908, Wilbur Wright amazed crowds in France with his aerobatic flying demonstrations, and Orville made daring flights at a U.S. Army base in Virginia. The press in Europe and America…
00:38:15 |
Wed 15 Jan 2025
History Daily: The Sole Survivor of the Retreat from Kabul
January 13, 1842. William Brydon is the last man standing after a disastrous British army retreat during the First Anglo-Afghan War.
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00:16:14 |
Mon 13 Jan 2025
The Wright Brothers | Fliers or Liars | 2
By 1903, inventors and adventurers in Britain and France were launching their own experimental aircraft skyward. In the U.S., crowds gathered outside Washington, D.C. to see Samuel Langley of the Smi…
00:40:28 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
The Wright Brothers | The Art of the Bird | 1
In the late-1890s, two brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, became obsessed with what Wilbur described as “the problem of flight.” With no formal training or funding, they threw themselves …
00:39:50 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
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