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**Retropod**

Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters – forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers.

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The oldest surviving banjo recording Jul 11, 2019

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Charles Asbury’s digitized songs serve as a time capsule to the music of the 19th century.

The Jedwabne massacre Jul 10, 2019

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Raw questions of complicity versus compulsion have surrounded the 1941 murders of a Polish village's Jewish residents.

The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball' Jul 09, 2019

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On display in Washington, D.C. are the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and another document that details a fundamental institution in American life: baseball.

The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners Jul 08, 2019

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Benjamin Lay wrote one of the first treatises against slavery in Colonial America, a time when many prosperous Pennsylvania Quakers were slave owners. But the Quakers disowned Lay for speaking out.

Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office Jul 05, 2019

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Sixty years after Congress welcomed its first woman, it welcomed its first baby.

Thomas Jefferson's last letter Jul 04, 2019

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Somehow, in the depths of his personal misery towards the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson once again found his powerful way with words.

The epic bender that launched America Jul 03, 2019

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George Washington and his fellow partiers racked up a hefty bill--$15,000 in today’s currency--celebrating the completion of the Constitution.

The time we thought an asteroid might kill us all Jul 02, 2019

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In 1998, the world briefly panicked over an asteroid that seemed headed straight for Earth.

Suzanne Lenglen, the first goddess of tennis Jul 01, 2019

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Suzanne Lenglen was physically ferocious, always fashionable and a disrupter of convention.

The first pride parade Jun 28, 2019

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The very first pride parade was held in 1964 and was a bit calmer than what we think of today.

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