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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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How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady Jul 09, 2018

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Eleanor Roosevelt held news conferences just for female reporters. The men were not impressed.

The time America invaded Britain Jul 06, 2018

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Spoiler: It did not go well.

The teen who tied a Virginia election Jul 05, 2018

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In 1971, Stephen Burns was 18 years old and a newly minted voter. He was so jazzed to be a part of the Democratic process.

Thomas Jefferson's last letter Jul 04, 2018

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

The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die Jul 03, 2018

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The Tuskegee syphilis experiment is a horrific piece of American history.

The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space Jul 02, 2018

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In a largely forgotten experiment, a group of students from Gallaudet University spent years helping NASA understand the mechanisms of motion sickness, and how to prevent it.

That time we thought an asteroid might kill us all Jun 29, 2018

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In 1998, the world briefly panicked over an asteroid that seemed headed for a close call with Earth. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t.

The femme fatale Jun 28, 2018

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For the past 100 years, Mata Hari has been revered as the quintessential glamorous spy. But the real Mata Hari was much more complicated.

The first congresswoman’s vote Jun 27, 2018

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In April 1917, Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, faced an agonizing choice. Should she, or should she not, vote for the United States to enter World War I?

How Hollywood’s first major blockbuster revived the KKK Jun 26, 2018

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"The Birth of a Nation" depicted life after the Civil War in a way that glorified Klansmen. The film and its cultural impact led one man to conclude that the time was right to bring back the Klu Klux Klan.

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