A Confederate Day of Fasting and Prayer (1863...

For the twenty-fifth installment of “50 Weeks That Shaped America” we go to June 1969, and New York City’s Greenwich Village. Police raids on the Stonewall Inn, one of the main gay bar’s in NYC, were fairly common. But for a number of reasons, on the night of June 28th, patrons h ...  Show more

A conversation about finding historical inspiration in all sorts of unique places, with Tiya Miles, author of "All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake" and Kathleen DuVal, author of "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America"For the past 25 ...  Show more

Introducing a brand-new daily podcast from the team at WCH. On This Day in Working Class History will be a brief reminder each morning of our collective struggles for a better world which have taken place on this date in history.
Launching on 1 February on a trial basis, eac ...  Show more

At its height the Iroquois Confederacy (or Haudenosaunee) - a union of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations - controlled lands from Quebec to Ohio.

Its origin story goes back to the legend of the warrior Hiawatha and the Peacemaker. In the end its ...

He is undoubtedly the most famous member of the Confederate forces. But it wasn't always set to be that way.

In this episode, Don speaks to Jonathan Horn to find out about the life of Robert E Lee, why he made the decision to join the Confederate side, and how he was ...

Hace cuarenta años, el mundo se vio sorprendido por la primera revolución islámica, que acabó con la tiranía de los Pahlaví pero convirtió la antigua Persia en un brutal Estado teocrático impuesto a sangre y fuego. Hemos preparado para ti este podcast narrativo documental donde d ...  Show more