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This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the cou

Episodes

Total: 225

Welcome back to a new season of the C13Originals critically acclaimed Hope, Through History document

June 28, 1971. It’s the second annual “Unity Day” rally at Columbus Circle in New York City, organiz

Two Fathers, One Fight

2021/6/21

June 21, 1998. Father's Day. At the Church of the Atonement in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Jon and Michae

Watergate from the Inside

2021/6/14

June 17, 1972. In the early morning hours, five men are caught after breaking into the Watergate bui

Witches Among Us

2021/6/7

June 10, 1692. Bridget Bishop is loaded into a two-wheeled cart and brought from her Salem jail cell

May 30, 1921. Dick Rowland, a Black teenager, works as a shoeshine in the predominantly white downto

Sojourner's Truth

2021/5/24

May 29, 1851. Akron, Ohio’s Old Stone Church is packed to the brim. It's the second day of a big con

Not My Fingerprint

2021/5/17

May 20, 2004. A lawyer named Brandon Mayfield walks out of a Portland, Oregon courtroom a free man.

May 10, 1869. On the dusty, barren plains of Promontory Summit, Utah, a crowd is gathered to celebra

Mother’s Day Mayhem

2021/5/3

May 9, 1905. After weeks of illness and visits from ten different doctors, Anna Jarvis’s mother dies

Fighting for 504

2021/4/26

April 30, 1977. Nearly a month after entering San Francisco’s Department of Health, Education, and W

April 19, 1951. General Douglas MacArthur's plane touches down in DC just after midnight. He’s comin

Killing the Gold Standard

2021/4/12

April 18, 1933. It’s almost midnight in Washington, DC. Newly-elected President Franklin Delano Roos

More Than a Home Run

2021/4/5

April 8, 1974. On a humid night in Atlanta, Hank Aaron is poised to make history. On the all-time ho

148 Tornadoes in 18 Hours

2021/3/29

April 3, 1974. Across America, many people wake up this morning thinking it will be a normal day. Bu

Surrogacy on the Stand

2021/3/22

March 27, 1986. Mary Beth Whitehead is in labor. She’s giving birth to a baby girl today, and her hu

Revenge of the Ronin

2021/3/15

March 20, 1703. Today, almost fifty men, scattered around the city of Edo, Japan, are waiting to die

Smash, Smash, Smash!

2021/3/8

March 9, 1901. From a jail cell in Topeka, Kansas, temperance vigilante Carry Nation is hard at work

A War on Women

2021/3/1

March 2, 1923. In Wichita, Kansas, Mary Irby and Euna Hollowell are being held at the county jail. T

Jazz on the Record

2021/2/22

February 26, 1917. At the Victor Talking Machine Company’s studio in Manhattan, five white men gathe