This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the cou
July 13, 44 BCE. Julius Caesar is dead, stabbed by a trusted friend. With Rome shaken, the Senate me
July 7, 2007. In a dramatic ceremony featuring pop stars, fireworks, and smoke canons, the Colosseum
June 27, 1905. It’s the last morning of Ippolit Gilyarovsky’s life. He wakes up in a battleship on t
June 23, 1972. President Richard Nixon’s men broke into the Watergate complex just six days earlier.
June 23, 1858. A knock at the door—it’s the papal police. For the Mortaras, a Jewish family living i
June 17, 1972. In the early morning hours, five men are caught after breaking into the Watergate bui
June 11, 1946. Bayard Rustin walks out of the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary after serving a sentenc
June 4, 1939. Anna May Wong steps off an ocean liner to greet her fans in Australia. In many ways, s
May 26, 1965. One hundred years after the Civil War, Congress is debating a bill whose goal is to en
In 1935, famed Black sociologist and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois published Black Reconstruction, a revolu
May 16, 1868. The Capitol is filled with spectators, anxiously trying to predict how each Senator wi
May 10, 1865. Jefferson Davis is awakened by gunshots. The president of the defeated and disbanded C
In this miniseries, HISTORY This Week takes listeners from the Civil War to Civil Rights to uncover
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: May 7, 1824. O
April 25, 1859. About 150 people have gathered on the shores of Lake Manzala in Egypt. And one of th
April 20, 1812. An angry crowd approaches a mill in Lancashire, England. They’re fed up with what’s
April 16, 1945. Jackie Robinson is ready. He’s won a tryout with the Boston Red Sox, and if he makes
April 10, 1912. As the RMS Titanic pulls away from a crowded port on the south coast of England, it
March 29, 1951. The world is waiting for the jury’s verdict. Ethel and Julius Rosenberg have been ac
March 5, 2022. After 107 years, explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, has been found two
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