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The stories printed beside history's biggest headlines.
Tifani Clark picks a well-known moment, such as the first World Trade Center bombing or the Great Halifax Explosion, and then tells three lesser-known stories that ran in newspapers at the same time. Mini-episodes drop the famous event and follow one strange tale, like a woman who boarded the schooner Patriot on the last day of 1812.
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The famous headline is only the way in on ADDITIONAL HISTORY: Headlines You Probably Missed. Tifani Clark, the host, picks a date that made front pages, sketches the event everyone remembers, and then reads further down the page. What she finds there becomes the episode: three lesser-known stories that ran in newspapers at the same time. Past episodes have been built around the Great Halifax Explosion, the first World Trade Center bombing and the start of the Freedom Riders' journey in May 1961. The companion stories cover a lot of ground. One follows a young man from Illinois who got tired of waiting for the United States to enter World War I, moved to Canada in 1916 to join the Royal Flying Corps, and shot down two planes on a single day in August 1917. Another follows Valery, a Soviet teenager the United States refused to hand back despite a diplomatic note. In American custody he was taken to Frankfurt, rode a boat down the Rhine, gave anti-Soviet speeches on the Voice of America and found a pen pal in Baltimore. A third is a murder case in which two sisters stood trial over the killing of a wealthy man named Jack Wilson, while the man who confessed pleaded guilty to escape the death penalty. There is a rescue story too: survivors of a white squall floated for nearly a day before a Dutch freighter took them to Tampa. Mini-episodes work differently. They leave out the famous event and follow a single story, which Clark says is often just a bizarre one. The 1977 mini strings together a strange call to a woman named Ruth, a man telling police his guns had been stolen, and a body found near a highway by youths from the Tohono O'odham reservation. Clark herself called it twisty. The 1812 mini is about Theodosia, whose husband had just become governor of South Carolina and could not leave in wartime, so she boarded the schooner Patriot in Georgetown without him. A newspaper in 1904 called her story one of the most fascinating mysteries in American history. When the main event unfolded over months, Clark widens the window and takes her extra stories from within about a week and a half of its start. The delivery is conversational and warm. She apologises when she has a cold, asks whether listeners had also never heard of the Halifax Explosion, and notes when a story is still unfolding, such as a parole eligibility that falls in 2026. Closings tease the next date with a hint, and she asks for topic ideas by email. What a listener gets is history as it looked on the newspaper page: the famous event sets the scene, and the crimes, rescues and odd lives printed next to it are the payoff.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes history told as stories and cares as much about the odd murder case or rescue at sea further down the page as about the famous event at the top.
What sets it apart: The calendar is the hook: each full-size episode pairs a famous event with three obscure stories from newspapers of the same moment, so war, crime and oddity appear side by side as they once did in print. Mini-episodes break that frame to follow a single strange case.
"Titanic Sinks!" "Man Walks on Moon!" "Pearl Harbor Bombed!" We've all seen the famous newspaper headlines, but what else was making headlines on the exact same day as some of the biggest events in history? Author Tifani Clark shares forgotten stories of crime, humor, mystery, and more from historical newspapers.
The Halifax Explosion makes the headline; you also get the era's remarkably rude prescription ad.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A strange 1977 death becomes more troubling as each concrete detail presses against the official unsolved finding.
Charles Curtis Morgan's death still has the shape of a file that will not settle. Found near his car west of Tucson on June 18, 1977, he left behind the kind of details that make a case feel both specific and slippery: the odd phone call, the hotel-room meeting over stolen guns,…
A Halifax catastrophe opens onto wartime survival and a strange sales pitch in a 1917 newspaper.
Additional History returns to December 6, 1917, treating the Toronto Daily Star headline "Halifax City is Wrecked" as both an entry point and a frame.
A wartime voyage, a vanished schooner, and a mystery kept alive by rumor and print.
Theodosia Burr Alston's disappearance has the clean outline of a departure and the lingering pull of a national mystery. She leaves Georgetown, South Carolina, aboard the schooner Patriot, headed north with a maid and Dr.
A 1993 headline opens onto a murder case, a quick bombing overview, and the odd newspaper texture of the early 1990s.
Episode 253 starts with a February 26, 1993 San Francisco Examiner headline on the first attack on the World Trade Center, then lets the surrounding newspaper world widen the story.
Strange history with a storyteller’s pulse.
Overlooked lives, read from the sources, talked through warmly.
This episode explores lesser-known newspaper headlines from December 19, 1998, the day President Bill Clinton was impeached.
Host Tifani Clark explores forgotten newspaper stories from March 3, 1931, the day the Star-Spangled Banner was officially adopted as the U.S.
This episode explores forgotten historical headlines from January 27, 1880, the day Thomas Edison patented the light bulb.
This mini-episode tells the story of the infamous Sacco and Vanzetti trial, a controversial criminal case from the 1920s.
Host Tifani Clark shares forgotten newspaper stories from the same day as famous historical events.
Tiffany Clark’s Additional History mini-episode centers on Charles Curtis Morgan, known as Chuck Morgan, whose June 18, 1977 death was headlined by the Arizona Daily Star as Missing Executive Found Dead.
["On December 6, 1917, the Mont Blanc and Imo collided in Halifax Harbor, and the resulting explosion killed about 1,500 people instantly and injured at least 9,000.", "Tiffany Clark frames Additional History, Headlines You Probably Missed around a Toronto Daily Star headline, then follows Vincent Coleman as he warns passenger trains about the burning munitions ship.", "The episode also covers William Carter's Rock Island murder case, where police questioned him for 16 hours, found a revolver and bullets, and moved to a hanging sentence in 32 days.", "Two other December 1917 headlines round out the show: Patrick O'Brien's escape from German captivity and the Mooney case recantation by Alice Kidwell and Estelle Smith."]
The biggest headline on April 12, 1955 was Polio Vaccine Safe and Effective, and Tiffany Clark explains Jonas Salk's killed-virus method, the 1954 million-child trial, and the drop in U.S.
Tiffany Clark's Episode 254 of Additional History centers on Theodosia Burr Alston, and she frames it with a 1902 Buffalo Sunday Morning News headline about solving the "Mystery of the Death of Beautiful Theodosia Burr." The episode traces Theodosia's family through Aaron Burr's orphaned childhood, his 13-year-old start at the College of New Jersey, and his 1800 Electoral College tie with Thomas Jefferson.
["Tiffany Clark uses February 26, 1993 newspapers to revisit the first World Trade Center bombing and the headlines that surrounded it.", "She follows that with the Huntsville, Alabama case of Jack Wilson, where Betty Wilson, Peggy Lowe, James White, floral sneakers, and a $6 million estate become central clues.", "The episode also tracks the Liverpool-area disappearance of two-year-old James Bulger, using CCTV footage, witness sightings, and the names Robert Thompson and John Venables.", "Clark ends with Mel Fisher's hunt for La Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de Atocha, the 1985 \"motherlode\" call, and the later Florida Keys salvage restrictions that followed."]
Tiffany Clark connects the May 14, 1961 Freedom Riders attack in Anniston, Alabama, to the Supreme Court rulings that outlawed segregated bus seating and interstate terminals.
Additional History: Headlines You Probably Missed examines the Galapagos Affair, beginning with Friedrich Ritter and Dora Strauch Corwin's 1929 move from Germany to Floriana.
Additional History: Headlines You Probably Missed examines December 31, 1999, beginning with Y2K fears, a 13-sector preparedness study, and the United States government’s reported low readiness.