# HISTORY This Week

A podcast by The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios. Visit htwpod.com for ad-free listening and bonus content!This week, something big happened. You might have never heard of it, but this moment changed the course of history. A HISTORY Channel original podcast, HISTORY This Week gives you insight into the people—both famous and unknown—whose decisions reshaped the world we live in today. Through interviews with experts and eyewitnesses, each episode will give you a new perspective on how history is written. Stay up-to-date at historythisweekpodcast.com and to get in touch, email us at historythisweek@history.com.HISTORY This Week is a production of Back Pocket Studios in partnership with the History Channel.

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## Latest episodes

- [How Biddy Mason Found Her Freedom in Los Angeles](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/db39252bd4e2) (2026-11-02, 32 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247058/8247058_2026-04-14-053658.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Salem’s First Witch Trial](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/cb12f2d36002) (2026-10-30, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8912514/8912514_2026-10-30-190114.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [1066: The Brother Who Broke England (w/ Greg Jenner)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/3958482c0a3e) (2026-10-26, 30 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247060/8247060_2026-04-14-053800.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Introducing: Platypus Economics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/5e01cfb16196) (2026-10-23, 3 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8854447/8854447_2026-10-22-030847.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Venus, Earth’s Evil Twin](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/4a60b35e6529) (2026-10-19, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247062/8247062_2026-04-14-053902.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Audubon’s Birds Come Home to Roost](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/833f6e573440) (2026-10-12, 34 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247064/8247064_2026-04-14-054404.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The Freemasons Get Away With Murder (Probably)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/1bf00f16dba5) (2026-10-05, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247068/8247068_2026-04-14-054608.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Free preview: The Real Blackbeard (HTW+)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/22f42b5621a5) (2026-10-02, 8 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8716927/8716927_2026-10-01-230227.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [How Did Nixon Fumble the First TV Debate?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/0880ce9ef6e8) (2026-09-28, 32 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247070/8247070_2026-04-14-054910.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [From History's Greatest Mysteries: The Ark of the Covenant](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/50483b977d54) (2026-09-25, 43 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8686012/8686012_2026-09-24-164312.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The Man Who Taught America to Fear Fat](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/a497cf1ba88e) (2026-09-21, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247073/8247073_2026-04-14-055013.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The Uprising: Why the Peasants Loved Their King (w/ Paul Greengrass and Dan Jones)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/d2684bdf1914) (2026-09-17, 30 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8664464/8664464_2026-09-17-032504.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Saladin at the Gates of Jerusalem](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/7ea2e0e26c52) (2026-09-14, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247074/8247074_2026-04-14-055214.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Blindspot: The Road to 9/11](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/59af221ea3c7) (2026-09-11, 106 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8651156/8651156_2026-09-11-004656.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [9/11: Rescue on the Water](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/5c02cec95dbf) (2026-09-07, 27 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247076/8247076_2026-04-14-055416.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The Radium Girls Fight Back](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/f44fef412f9d) (2026-08-31, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247077/8247077_2026-04-14-055517.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Free preview: How Las Vegas Made America a Gambling Nation (HTW+)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/77ed4e4fb3bc) (2026-08-28, 7 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8624338/8624338_2026-08-27-214638.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Did Homer Write the Odyssey? (Was He Even Real?)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/37cb0a40c0af) (2026-08-24, 42 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247079/8247079_2026-04-14-055719.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The Wire That Connected the World](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/2c54ecf19d63) (2026-08-17, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247081/8247081_2026-04-14-055921.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The French Monarchy Falls in a Day](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/de9119eb3eb1) (2026-08-10, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247083/8247083_2026-04-14-050123.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Arsenic, Adultery, and an American on Trial](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/d003c66cba6f) (2026-08-03, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247085/8247085_2026-04-14-050425.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Fall Out (Finale)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/13dc1847f051) (2026-07-30, 39 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8547110/8547110_2026-07-29-174310.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Washington: Hero of the Revolution, from The Rest is History](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/dd9be0f49e2c) (2026-07-27, 72 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247086/8247086_2026-04-14-050626.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Ben Franklin Gets Fired](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/67bbbe798423) (2026-07-20, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247090/8247090_2026-04-14-050830.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [From First America: "Merciless Indian Savages"](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/c630d736da78) (2026-07-16, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8517874/8517874_2026-07-16-071414.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The Forgotten Father of Air Conditioning](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/3235e7703910) (2026-07-13, 28 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247091/8247091_2026-04-14-051031.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The *Other* Declaration of Independence (Part II)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/2e1efe48c187) (2026-07-06, 23 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247093/8247093_2026-04-14-051233.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Free HTW+ preview: Ken Burns on the American Revolution (Extended Interview)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/c7aa62cb7116) (2026-07-03, 59 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8486977/8486977_2026-07-01-193917.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The *Other* Declaration of Independence (Part I)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/ef4cc8ab26d8) (2026-06-29, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247095/8247095_2026-04-14-051535.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [A Mob Boss Starts A Movement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/ec37719eced1) (2026-06-22, 30 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247097/8247097_2026-04-14-051737.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Reconstruction: The Unfinished Promise – Prologue](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/964e3d9321c5) (2026-06-19, 18 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8465555/8465555_2026-06-19-202855.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Malcolm Gladwell on Reconstruction’s Unfinished Questions](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/a6e66cd9becd) (2026-06-15, 36 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247098/8247098_2026-04-14-051938.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Why the Crusades Became Cool Again](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/0d887417df2f) (2026-06-08, 27 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247102/8247102_2026-04-14-052502.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [How Higgins and His Boats Won the War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/ae926a017e1e) (2026-06-01, 31 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247104/8247104_2026-04-14-052704.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [WWII with Tom Hanks (Episode 1 – The Beginning)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/bb21bd3a3bf4) (2026-05-27, 41 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8416934/8416934_2026-05-28-174434.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The Secretary of War Who Feared the Bomb](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/01c5cc8756b4) (2026-05-25, 34 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247106/8247106_2026-04-14-052806.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Bonnie and Clyde’s Final Ride](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/73ba3a57d9ee) (2026-05-18, 32 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247107/8247107_2026-04-14-053007.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The Berlin Airlift and the Birth of the New World Order (Part 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/917a349a5624) (2026-05-11, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247108/8247108_2026-04-14-053208.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Introducing: Family Lore](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/d020d812f62c) (2026-05-07, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8385837/8385837_2026-05-15-211537.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Surviving the Mad Propagandist of Nazi Berlin (Part 1)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/4a707f8e1ad7) (2026-05-04, 33 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247110/8247110_2026-04-14-053410.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Parting the Desert Between Two Seas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/e9cbd10c11e6) (2026-04-27, 34 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247113/8247113_2026-04-14-053613.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [One Eco-Arson After Another: The Earth Liberation Front](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/a782feed712b) (2026-04-20, 32 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247114/8247114_2026-04-14-053914.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Jefferson’s Trade War Shuts Down America](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/8599c525b91b) (2026-04-13, 26 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247116/8247116_2026-04-14-054116.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [A Good, Not Great Lake (from Points North)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/2c9ff7e04b79) (2026-04-09, 23 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8246981/8246981_2026-04-14-050821.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Oil Fields, Bags of Cash, a Presidency Exposed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/14b369228ff2) (2026-04-06, 29 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247122/8247122_2026-04-14-054822.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [William Parker’s War on Slave Catchers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/2d4d25631302) (2026-03-30, 36 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247127/8247127_2026-04-14-055727.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [The First Robot](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/a07650926dc6) (2026-03-23, 30 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247132/8247132_2026-04-14-050432.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [HTW Live: Busting the Myths of Irish Immigration — Recorded at the Tenement Museum](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/eb0a14535570) (2026-03-16, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247136/8247136_2026-04-14-051236.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [From Radio Diaries: Orson Welles and the Blind Soldier](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/c9ddb52a11d6) (2026-03-12, 10 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8246985/8246985_2026-04-14-051425.192.mp3?rssID=6398
- [Axis Sally’s Nazi Radio](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1493453604/f35a1ea8b8fd) (2026-03-09, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/v9Uiw3bGr54f6BVZKSyc/pscrb.fm/rss/p/serve.castfire.com/audio/8247144/8247144_2026-04-14-052644.192.mp3?rssID=6398

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