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| Title | Date published | ||
| The Black Tom Explosion (1916) | 2021-08-01 | ||
| The U.S. Rewrites the Haitian Constitution (1915) w/ Jelani Cobb | 2021-07-29 | ||
| Kerner and the "Long Hot Summer" (1967) w/ Jelani Cobb | 2021-07-27 | ||
| The Beer Summit (2009) | 2021-07-25 | ||
| The Lost Robert E. Lee Oath Theory (1975) w/ John Reeves | 2021-07-22 | ||
| Vanessa Williams Loses Her Crown (1984) | 2021-07-20 | ||
| Detroit Goes Bankrupt (2013) | 2021-07-18 | ||
| Mary Lincoln's Money (1870) | 2021-07-15 | ||
| A Native-Confederate Alliance (1861) | 2021-07-13 | ||
| FDR Wants More (1940) | 2021-07-11 | ||
| The Roswell Crash (1947) | 2021-07-08 | ||
| The Death of Marsha P Johnson (1992) | 2021-07-06 | ||
| Garrison's 4th of July Defiance (1854) | 2021-07-04 | ||
| Old Enough To Fight, Old Enough To Vote (1971) | 2021-07-01 | ||
| Moneybomb! (2008) | 2021-06-29 | ||
| Joseph Smith's Assassination (1844) w/ Spencer W McBride | 2021-06-27 | ||
| Sanford Hikes the Appalachian Trail (2009) | 2021-06-24 | ||
| Mandela in Boston (1990) | 2021-06-22 | ||
| The Len Bias Law (1986) w/ Adam McKay | 2021-06-20 | ||
| A Rumor, An Exhumation (1991) | 2021-06-17 |