The Berlin Wall

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show! In 1915, the Allies launched one of the most ambitious operations of the First World War. It was an attempt to force their way through the Dardanelles, capture Constantinople, and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war. ...  Show more

Tell me your favorite episode for the 6th anniversary show! In 1925, a small-town Tennessee courtroom became the stage for one of the most famous trials in American history. What began as a test case over a high school biology lesson turned into a national spectacle involving evo ...  Show more

On the border between the Western world and the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War. Starting out as a simple barbed wire fence, it would grow in scale and complexity to become a 27-mile concrete edifice, incorporating watchtowers, trenches, electric fences ...  Show more

The Berlin Wall divided a country and a city, but it had a purpose. Learn more about its history and how JFK and Barack Obama fit into the picture in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

60 years ago this month, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began building a barrier that divided the city of Berlin. It stood until 1989 and came to symbolise the front line of the Cold War. Iain MacGregor, author of "Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall ...  Show more

The immeasurably famous Irving Berlin seems like the perfect example of a U.S. immigrant success story. But reality is complicated and imperfect, and so was Berlin’s music-filled life.

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