Retropod
162 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.
Episodes
How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
September 24th, 2018
5:53
No women served on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991. The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.
The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office
September 21st, 2018
5:07
The Alien and Sedition Acts passed under President John Adams led to the arrests of more than two dozen people.
The photographer who helped end child labor in America
September 20th, 2018
5:23
Lewis Hine posed as a Bible salesman or machinery photographer to expose the hardships of child labor.
Only half of George Washington’s Supreme Court justices showed up on time
September 19th, 2018
5:19
All of George Washington’s Supreme Court nominees were confirmed in only two days, but half of them didn't show up on time.
Winnie and Nelson Mandela’s marriage survived prison but not freedom
September 18th, 2018
4:55
Their 38-year marriage endured his incarceration and hers.
The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK
September 17th, 2018
5:02
In 1925, 30,000 Klansmen descended on Washington, D.C. The city cheered their arrival.
The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel
September 14th, 2018
5:47
Before an unnamed senior official in the Trump administration published the opinion piece, “I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration" in the New York Times, another mysterious anonymous author lit up …
The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys
September 13th, 2018
4:17
In 1935, the Florida Keys ignored the threat of a looming hurricane. When the Category 5 storm made landfall, it left a wake of death and destruction.
How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous
September 12th, 2018
4:54
It may be hard to believe, but one single event rocketed Einstein to fame.
The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
September 11th, 2018
5:08
Heather Penney was among the first female combat pilots in the country. On Sept. 11, 2001, she got a mission: Bring down the fourth hijacked plane hurtling towards Washington.
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