Episodes

  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 11 Goin to Chicago (Finale)

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 11 Goin to Chicago (Finale)
    Jan 17 2026
    What if any impact will the investigations into the Red Cross relief camps have? Meanwhile many African Americans who survived the flood and those relief camps decide they can no longer live in the south after all they have experienced. In doing so they take their culture including their music with them.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 3 Spiritual Healers (Finale)

    The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 3 Spiritual Healers (Finale)
    Jan 10 2026
    The 4 former conquistadors turned castaways turned 'slaves' escape and find a new life as healers as they continue their journey to the Spanish controlled lands of Mexico.

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 2 Shipwrecked in Texas

    The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 2 Shipwrecked in Texas
    Dec 27 2025
    After failing to conquer Florida the would be conquistadors set sail in hastily built rafts hoping to reach the safety of a Spanish outpost in Mexico. Their journey however doesn't go quite as planned and the survivors find themselves in a very unexpected position.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Blues and The Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 10 Greenville Exposed

    Blues and The Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 10 Greenville Exposed
    Dec 20 2025
    Red Cross relief camps throughout the flooded region in general tended to have issues when it came to seeing to the needs of African American refugees. The situation in Greenville however is particularly bad as Black refugees there are practically returned to a state of enslavement.

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    50 mins
  • The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 1 Florida

    The Ill Fated Journey of Conquistador Cabeza de Vaca Part 1 Florida
    Dec 13 2025
    Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca would be among the first Europeans to see and travel through the regions that would one day become the American southwest and northern Mexico. This however was not a purposeful journey but instead the result a series of disastrous mishaps. Starting with an expedition to conquer the lands of the Gulf Coast region starting in Florida.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 5 Rescue and Relief

    The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 5 Rescue and Relief
    Nov 29 2025
    With the arrival of the survivors of the Forlorn Hope expedition word was finally out about the desperate situation the Donner party was in. Yet even these rescue efforts could not save them from their terrible fate.

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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 4 The Forlorn Hope

    The Tragedy of the Donner Party Episode 4 The Forlorn Hope
    Nov 15 2025
    Now trapped in the mountains without enough food to get through the winter the members of the Donner party attempt to go and get help. This expedition designed to bring back aid however would come to be known as the Forlorn Hope as it becomes one of the main reasons why this story gets passed down through history.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 9 Charley Patton and the Klan comes to Greenville

    Blues and the Mississippi Flood of 1927 Part 9 Charley Patton and the Klan comes to Greenville
    Nov 8 2025
    While much of the mainstream white press has nothing but praise for the relief efforts being led by presidential hopeful Herbert Hoover there is an ugly reality just underneath the surface. Nowhere is that reality uglier than in Greenville Mississippi. Yet before we get into the virtual return of slavery in the city we first look at the history of Greenville and why what happens there is both surprising and inevitable.

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    47 mins