American Esoterica
American history, bite-sized. These are the stories that may have slipped through the cracks - the odd detours that have shaped our history and culture in small, but sometimes significant, ways.
Episodes
It's the SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL - let's celebrate our 100th episode with a giant fireworks finale of history.
Sometimes, you have to strike the empire back, especially if you're a coal miner in 1921.
History isn't a series of boxes with defined edges - it's a continuum, and our connections to the past are deeper than we think.
Come meet Conotocarious. All 46 of them.
A bizarre conspiracy to cover up the time a robot from the future attacked the First Lady with a sled.
THIS race came down to the wire...the telephone wire.
The world got a glimpse of the future in Chicago in 1893. Your breakfast would never be the same.
A story about gang warfare, piracy, sharks, death by ammonia suffocation, and the people who killed the geese that laid the golden eggs, pretty much literally.
State of the art technology shows weakness against cheap drone. Difficulty: 70 years ago.
She was the inspiration for the Pinkerton Detective Agency's famous slogan, and all it took was stopping the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Meet the first female private detective in the United States, Kate Warne.
Once more, we play our dangerous game.
Our scientists determined that racism was stupid at least as far back as 1896. Here's the story of the test case that became the ultimate stain on the Supreme Court and the country.
When the baddest man in Madison County did a world of good.
This is a story of a tank. And the vehicle he drove.
WE FEEL THE NEED... Look, this is a self-indulgent mess of an episode that exists solely to talk about how cool planes are. You in, or not?
We learn about history in black and white terms, but the most pivotal moments emerge from the gray. Introducing Arrrbraham Lincoln, almost-pirate.
It could have been a day like any other...but it wasn't.
A pig, Robert's Rules of Order, Vancouver, and George Pickett. And the dumbest pseudo-war until the next one in this series.
There is still YET ANOTHER killing in Lafayette Square to discuss, but this story could've gone in a far worse direction. Come for the oddly pleasant death-dealing, stay for the host yelling at his dog for chewing on the studio acoustic panels.
Forget what you think you know about the deadliest fire in American history.
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