HISTORY This Week

This episode details the tragic story of the "Radium Girls," young women who painted watch dials with radioactive radium in the 1920s.

This episode features an interview with Michael Green, a history professor from the University of Las Vegas, who traces the city’s evolution from a small railroad town to a global gambling icon.

Host Sally Helm interviews professors Mary Abbott and Casey Dewey to explore the mystery of Homer and the oral tradition behind *The Iliad* and *The Odyssey*.

This episode details Cyrus Field’s decade-long struggle to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable, featuring insights from author James M.

This episode details the storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792, which effectively ended the French monarchy.

This episode examines the 1889 trial of Florence Maybrick, an American socialite convicted of murdering her husband in Victorian England.

This episode of "World War II with Tom Hanks" details the immediate aftermath of the war, focusing on the fracturing of the Allied alliance and the onset of the Cold War.

This episode explores how Benjamin Franklin’s reforms to the colonial postal system helped the American Revolution succeed.

Host Rebecca Nagel introduces "First America," arguing that Indigenous resistance and land hunger drove the U.

This episode explores the life of Dr.