The Hunt for the Hunley

September 12, 1922. Twenty-four-year-old Mollie Maggia has a toothache. In less than a year, this otherwise healthy young woman will be dead. Others like her will soon follow. They’d all shared what seemed to be a dream job: applying glow-in-the-dark paint to clock faces. The pai ...  Show more

A five-minute taste of our full interview on how Las Vegas became Las Vegas. Subscribe to HTW+ to hear the rest at htwpod.com or in your Apple Podcasts app. 

On this episode of Our American Stories, the CSS Hunley's sinking of the Housatonic was only a partial success, but represents the first time a submarine managed to sink an enemy vessel...and it happened in Charleston Harbor during the Civil War. Support the show ( https://www.our ...  Show more

Submarines are the silent hunters of the deep. From the large nuclear-powered boats of today’s navies, to the German U-Boats of the First and Second World Wars, these machines hidden beneath the waves can change the course of history. In the United States, the first submersible w ...  Show more

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The submarine went missing, and the whole world stopped to watch. Two people were trapped inside - underwater with only hours of oxygen left.

Would it be possible to find them in time? People wondered if it ...

When five people go underwater in an eccentric billionaire’s private submarine, only four come back alive. With an ambitious Ph.D student found stabbed to death, can you solve who killed Ruth Tanner and why? Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com ...  Show more