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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 unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer Oct 04, 2019

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Civil rights crusader Fannie Lou Hamer rivaled Martin Luther King Jr. in her command of audiences.

The photographer and the busboy Oct 03, 2019

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Photographer Boris Yaro shot the haunting photograph of Bobby Kennedy lying fatally wounded in the arms of Juan Romero, a busboy.

The time America invaded Britain Oct 02, 2019

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In 1777, Captain John Paul Jones hatched a plan to take the American Revolution to Britain’s shores.

Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his 'angel mother' and 'mama' Oct 01, 2019

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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 search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel Sep 30, 2019

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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.

Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman Sep 27, 2019

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Family and friends had known about the president’s intimate relationship with Mary Peck for years, but whispers about their involvement were growing.

The body of Emmett Till Sep 26, 2019

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Emmett Till’s mother opened his casket and sparked the civil rights movement.

The origins of the Waterloo teeth Sep 25, 2019

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More than 50,000 soldiers died during the Battle of Waterloo, but their teeth lived on.

In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships Sep 24, 2019

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Despite warnings of icebergs, the John Rutledge set sail from Liverpool, England, to New York.

How the teddy bear was born Sep 23, 2019

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In the fall of 1902, a year into his presidency, President Teddy Roosevelt set off to Mississippi for a bear-hunting vacation. It ended differently than planned.

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