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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 day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK Sep 17, 2018

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In 1925, 30,000 Klansmen descended on Washington, D.C. The city cheered their arrival.

The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel Sep 14, 2018

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Before an unnamed senior official in the Trump administration published the opinion piece, “I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration" in the New York Times, another mysterious anonymous author lit up Washington.

The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys Sep 13, 2018

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In 1935, the Florida Keys ignored the threat of a looming hurricane. When the Category 5 storm made landfall, it left a wake of death and destruction.

How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous Sep 12, 2018

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It may be hard to believe, but one single event rocketed Einstein to fame.

The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11 Sep 11, 2018

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Heather Penney was among the first female combat pilots in the country. On Sept. 11, 2001, she got a mission: Bring down the fourth hijacked plane hurtling towards Washington.

Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his ‘angel mother’ and ‘mama’ Sep 10, 2018

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President Abraham Lincoln had two loving and supportive mothers in his lifetime. The second helped him cope with the tragic loss of the first.

The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’ Sep 07, 2018

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This episode is co-hosted by Madeline Daly, who won Retropod trivia last Saturday at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Roe v. Wade’s forgotten loser Sep 06, 2018

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Dallas prosecutor Henry Wade never intended to become a central figure in Supreme Court history.

The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh Sep 05, 2018

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In 1927, the world watched as two French aviators attempted the world’s first transatlantic flight.

The campus massacre before Kent State Sep 04, 2018

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The first mass police shooting on a U.S. college campus happened two years before the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University.

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