Retropod
201 EpisodesProduced by The Washington Post
Retropod is a show for history lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Reporter Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters - forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers. Available every weekday morning.
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Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
November 16th, 2018
5:41
Mark Twain first laid eyes on a “newfangled typing machine,” as he called it, sometime in the early 1870s.
Food stamps were born out of a surplus of food
November 15th, 2018
6:06
The idea of food stamps was born out of a complicated paradox.
William Rehnquist's proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor
November 14th, 2018
5:00
Rehnquist proposed. O'Connor said no.
The first lady who couldn’t get her memoir published
November 13th, 2018
5:27
Julia Grant didn't a have particularly good experience in the world of publishing. In fact, her memoir wasn’t even published in her lifetime.
Joachim Ronneberg, the saboteur who crippled Nazi atomic bomb project
November 12th, 2018
5:02
Ronneberg started speaking about his experience in history in recent years.
America and warfare were never the same after World War I
November 9th, 2018
4:55
Along with staggering death tolls, the "Great War" generated memorable literature, geopolitical upheaval, hope, disillusion, the Russian Revolution …
Wong Kim Ark's Supreme Court fight for birthright citizenship
November 8th, 2018
6:25
In 1895, the United States tried to deny an American citizen entry to the country even though he was born on U.S. soil.
How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
November 7th, 2018
5:30
Some believed that a lottery was more democratic than a vote.
The makings of an electoral heist
November 6th, 2018
6:48
Gerrymandering became a real electoral cudgel with a project called REDMAP.
Rahm Emanuel, Howard Dean and the midterm elections of 2006
November 5th, 2018
5:37
Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, had two different approaches to taking back the House of …
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