Charles Chapin’s Complicated Life, Part 1

This 2016 episode covers the May 30, 1948 flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon. What really makes the story more than a historical footnote is how it ties into the racial makeup of both Portland and Oregon at the time.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Tracy talks about a strange statement in a paper she read while working on the Carlos J. Finlay episode. Holly shares her amusement at the pact Hartlib and his friends made.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

On this mini-series of Binged, Payton discusses killers who found their victims via the internet. Starting with John Edward Robinson. Case Sources: Anyone You Want Me To Be: A Shocking True Story of Sex and Death on the Internet (2003, Scribner), by Stephen Singular and John Dou ...  Show more

January 19th: William Wallace Receives Telegram (1931) Is circumstantial evidence enough to send a man away for life? On January 19th 1931 a message was delivered to a man who, many believe, got away with murder. A piece of paper that started a decades long whodunit. https://en ...  Show more

How did an 18th century working class farm labourer climb the social ladder to become the most beloved poet Scotland has produced?

By the time he died aged just 37, he had taken the country by storm with his romantic verse and was welcomed into the bosom of Edinburgh ...

This November marks 60 years since President John F Kennedy was assassinated. 

His name is associated with history defining events, but it’s also connected with a dynasty, known for their celebrity and notoriously for being ‘cursed.’

The Kennedy family ...