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“Listening to Auraria’s Past” is an audio walking tour of Denver’s Auraria neighborhood, which was displaced by the city in the 1970s to build the Auraria Higher Education Center.

In Forgotten America: Rediscovering Events that Changed the Nation, turn your attention to the unfamiliar in United States history with historian and author Dr. Rachel Michelle Gunter.

As tantilizing new evidence mounts, Hartigan and her fellow investigators descend deeper into a world of conspiracy and obsession. Through its irresistible characters and prodigious research, Lost reveals not just why we remember Amelia Earhart as a trailblazer and adventurer, but why unsolved mysteries keep us forever searching for answers.

Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband, Jon. It was a regular and beige life, and it worked. It was a warm beige. We felt, and were, blessed and lucky. Normal. On the morning of October 7th, 2023, Rachel Goldberg-Polin's beloved twenty-three-year-old son, Hersh...

A rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the way. Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible...

Bismarck's War tells the story of one of the most shocking reversals of fortune in modern European history. The culmination of a globally violent decade, the Franco-Prussian War was deliberately engineered by Bismarck, both to destroy French power and to unite Germany. It could not have worked better, but it also had lurking inside it the poisonous seeds of all the disasters that would ravage the twentieth century.

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found­ers could ever have envisioned the modern national...

Is it possible for an American Vice President to carry out a criminal enterprise inside the White House and have nobody remember? To have one of the most brazen political bribery scandals in American history play out before the country while nobody’s paying attention? In her first original podcast, MS NOW’s Rachel Maddow goes back 45 years to dig into a story that got overshadowed in its day. There’s intrigue. Corruption. Envelopes of cash delivered to the White House. It’s a story that’s not well known, but it probably should be. Especially today. Bag Man. A Rachel Maddow podcast. ...

Rachel Reeves - Biography Flash is your go-to podcast for a comprehensive look at the life, career, and ongoing influence of Rachel Reeves, the United Kingdom's first female Chancellor of the Exchequer. Hosted by Marc Ellery, this show traces her remarkable journey from child chess champion to one of the most powerful figures in British politics, covering every pivotal chapter along the way. From her early activism as a teenager motivated by education cutbacks, to her studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and Economics at the London School of Economics, to a decade spent ...

WINNER OF A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD A USA TODAY BESTSELLER "A gifted writer, astonishingly adept at nuance, narration, and the politics of passion."—Toni Morrison Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of...

The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed”. Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men. Today, a new generation of (mostly) women scientists is finally redrawing the map. With modern tools and fresh perspectives, they’re looking at the organs traditionally bound up in reproduction—the uterus, ovaries, vagina—and seeing within them a new biology of change and resilience.

De repente, uma voz que dividia o Brasil inteiro desapareceu das telas. Quem é Rachel Sheherazade e o que a levou de âncora mais polêmica do jornalismo brasileiro a um dos casos mais comentados da mídia nacional? Neste podcast, mergulhamos na trajetória fascinante de uma das jornalistas mais controversas e corajosas do país. Da sua formação até os bastidores do SBT, passando pelos discursos que incendiaram as redes sociais e o processo trabalhista que chocou o setor, contamos a história completa de uma mulher que nunca teve medo de enfrentar o poder. Uma biografia relâmpago que vai ...

Boredom? We don't know her. Each week, join hosts Rachel and Maddie for a deep dive into whatever they're thinking about, taking a comedic and intellectual approach to weird, interesting, and unusual topics.HYPERFOCUS is the perfect podcast for everyone...especially if you have ADHD like Rachel.

A podcast about ghosts, ghouls, and things that go bump in the night... Join hosts Paul Randall Adams & Rachel Clark — two self-proclaimed skeptic believers — as they wade through the darkness together, one story at a time. From haunted locations and paranormal investigations to urban legends, cryptids, cults, and the occult, Shadow's Embrace covers every corner of the unknown with open minds and just enough doubt to keep things interesting. Recorded across state lines and fueled by a shared obsession with the unexplained, Paul and Rachel bring you the stories that linger long after the ...

Se trató de una campaña sofisticada y sorprendentemente bien financiada para socavar las instituciones democráticas, promover el antisemitismo y destruir la confianza ciudadana en sus líderes electos, con el objetivo final de derrocar al Gobierno estadounidense e instaurar un régimen autoritario. Algunos de los funcionarios electos más influyentes del país, incluyendo senadores y miembros del Congreso, trabajaron para difundir argumentos nazis, mientras que paramilitares fascistas almacenaban bombas y armas preparándose para una insurrección violenta.

THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family...

The untold stories of the women who were first.History remembers the breakthroughs. But not always the women behind them.First of Many is a podcast uncovering the untold stories of women who were the first — to discover, to create, to lead — across science, medicine, education, architecture, fashion, and the creative industries.These are the pioneers whose ideas shaped the world… but whose names were overlooked, forgotten, or credited to others.Each episode, we research and re-tell the lives, work, and legacy of extraordinary women who changed the course of history — often without ...

"Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" is the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history: the executive order to target and round up innocent citizens, Japanese Americans, at the outbreak of World War II. This six-episode narrative podcast will examine and shed new light on how that policy came to be, who was behind it, who attempted to stop it, and the heroism needed to end the policy for good. Brazen lies and stereotypes about a minority group being pushed by senior government officials. Desperate efforts to prevent the policy from going into place. A community terrorized ...

Season 1: An exploration of three Irish faerie lore creation myths researched and produced by Rachel Welker. Season 2: Connecting the Pied Piper of German legend to the Irish Noble Faeries through literature and history. Season 3: Contact rachelmwelker@gmail.com with ideas and requests. Works Cited https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2k2_cv46gWzXQWkFnBpuW2zmgM1D7Sk5t5NwM9HCDA/edit?usp=sharing

For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in the present. It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combined total of all Australians killed in foreign battles to date. But there are few memorials marking these first, domestic wars.