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This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written. Stay up-to-date at historythisweekpodcast.com and to get in touch, email us at [email protected] This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.
Louis Armstrong hesitates outside a Chicago theater; your next jazz rabbit hole begins there.
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A Chicago night that turns a famous solo into a larger story of migration, mentorship, and invention.
Louis Armstrong's "West End Blues" sits at the center here, but the episode keeps widening the frame to Chicago, King Oliver, and the city that shaped what came next.
History argued after dark.
Piracy stripped of romance.
Forgotten women, complicated on purpose.
This episode examines President Thomas Jefferson's signing of the Non-Importation Act of 1806, a trade restriction against Britain during the Napoleonic Wars.
This episode explores the 1998 congressional designation of Lake Champlain as a sixth Great Lake, sparking outrage and political maneuvering.
Interior Secretary Albert Fall signed a secret no-bid contract in April 1922 giving oilman Harry Sinclair exclusive drilling rights to Wyoming's Teapot Dome, a reserve holding an estimated 135 million barrels set aside for the Navy.
This episode recounts the 2007 global vote to select the new Seven Wonders of the World, starting with a surreal spectacle in Lisbon.
This episode explores the profound mentorship between jazz legend Louis Armstrong and his lesser-known mentor, Joe King Oliver, tracing how their relationship in New Orleans and Chicago shaped Armstrong's career.
This episode recounts the mutiny against explorer Henry Hudson in 1611, as his crew, stranded and starving in the Canadian Arctic, revolts against his determination to find the Northwest Passage.
History This Week examines how Joseph McCarthy turned postwar anti-communist fear into power before the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings exposed his tactics to 20 million television viewers.
This episode recounts the story of a horse diving act at a Texas amusement park in 1938, exploring a dangerous historical spectacle.
This episode explores the Nazi crackdown on occult practitioners in 1941, known as the Hess Action.
This episode explores the US attempt to buy Greenland from Denmark in 1951, a covert government plan.
The episode recounts the opening day of the first ski lift in Alta, Utah in 1939, highlighting the town's transition from mining to skiing and the dangers of the location.
This episode recounts the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The team behind History This Week reflects on their experiences making the show in a behind-the-scenes episode.
The Bowery Boys trace New York's lighting from 1697 household lantern laws and 1762 whale-oil lamps to Edison's electric grid.
Blindspot: The Road to 9/11 begins with the November 5, 1990 assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane at New York's Marriott Eastside.
The Last Archive's account of the 1925 Scopes Trial reframes Dayton, Tennessee, as a national test of doubt rather than a simple victory for reason.