Podcast · 78 episodes
American History Tellers, page 3
by Audible · English
The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced to our history, but how well do you really know the stories that made America? We'll take you to the events, the times and the people that shaped our nation. And we'll show you how our history affected them, their families and affects you today. Hosted by Lindsay Graham (not the Senator). From Wondery, the network behind American Scandal, Tides of History, American Innovations and more. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of American History Tellers ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.
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History Daily: The Assassination of Sergei KirovThe episode recounts the assassination of Sergei Kirov on Dec 1, 1934, in Leningrad, and how it became a pretext for Joseph Stalin’s escalating purges—culminating in the Great Terror (about 700,000–1…1 Dec 2025 · 20 min · 8 chapters
The Mayflower | Cutthroats | 4Plymouth Colony’s 1622–1623 crisis (“Cutthroats”): hunger, rival colonists funded by Thomas Weston, Squanto’s political fallout, and a Massachusetts conspiracy leading to Miles Standish’s raid and…26 Nov 2025 · 36 min · 15 chapters
History Daily: Darwin’s Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin’s journey from collecting specimens on the HMS Beagle (Galapagos, 1835) to publishing On the Origin of Species (Nov 24, 1859), sparking the Oxford Debate (June 30, 1860), and…24 Nov 2025 · 16 min · 5 chapters
The Mayflower | The First Thanksgiving | 3Plymouth Colony’s winter of 1620–21 survival, fear of attack, and the diplomacy that leads to the 1621 harvest feast later mythologized as “the first Thanksgiving,” plus the Mayflower’s departure and…19 Nov 2025 · 35 min · 13 chapters
The Mayflower | A Sea of Troubles | 2The Mayflower’s voyage and early settlement crisis (Sept–Dec 1620), including hunger, storms, the Mayflower Compact, scouting for a site, and escalating conflict with local Wampanoag after the…12 Nov 2025 · 36 min · 12 chapters
The Mayflower | Saints and Strangers | 1The Mayflower’s 1620 departure begins a four-part story of the “saints” (English separatists) and “strangers” (non-separatist investors/settlers), framed by religious persecution, failed escape…5 Nov 2025 · 34 min · 15 chapters
Shootout at the O.K. Corral | Vendetta | 4The Tombstone aftermath of the O.K. Corral—an inquest and failed indictments, then Virgil Earp’s assassination, Wyatt Earp’s “Vendetta Ride,” and the resulting manhunt and gunfight that killed Curly…29 Oct 2025 · 38 min · 9 chapters
Shootout at the O.K. Corral | Thirty Seconds | 3The lead-up to and aftermath of the Oct. 26, 1881 Shootout at the O.K.22 Oct 2025 · 38 min · 10 chapters
Shootout at the O.K. Corral | Law and Disorder | 2Episode 2 of American History Tellers’ “Tombstone, Law, and Disorder” focuses on how Tombstone’s elections and law enforcement collapsed into corruption and escalating violence, setting up the later…15 Oct 2025 · 35 min · 13 chapters
Shootout at the O.K. Corral | The Road to Tombstone | 1The Road to Tombstone (Episode 1) sets up the conditions leading to the O.K. Corral shootout—Tombstone’s silver boom, its law-and-order push, and the Earp brothers’ rise against violent cowboy gangs.8 Oct 2025 · 38 min · 15 chapters
Daring Prison Escapes | Escape from Libby Prison | 5The Civil War’s largest jailbreak from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia (February 9, 1864).1 Oct 2025 · 41 min · 13 chapters
Daring Prison Escapes | Nazis in the Arizona Desert | 4Camp Papago Park (Phoenix, Arizona) and the 1944–45 escape of German U-boat POWs, led by Captain Jürgen Wartenberg, including the tunnel, the desert manhunt, and the capture of Wartenberg.24 Sep 2025 · 37 min · 19 chapters
Daring Prison Escapes | Escape from Leavenworth | 3The April 21, 1910 hijacking of a Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary supply train—escape from the prison’s steel gates—plus the decades-long manhunt for Frank Grigware.17 Sep 2025 · 34 min · 12 chapters
Daring Prison Escapes | Fleeing the Rock | 2The 1962 Alcatraz escape attempt by Frank Lee Morris and the Anglin brothers (Clarence and John), including how they planned, dug through cell vents, built decoys and rafts, and ultimately why the…10 Sep 2025 · 36 min · 13 chapters
Daring Prison Escapes | Bastille of the Confederacy | 1Episode 1 of “Daring Prison Escapes: The Bastille of the Confederacy” follows Union Colonel Thomas Rose and fellow officers’ tunnel escape from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, culminating in the…3 Sep 2025 · 40 min · 10 chapters
FAN FAVORITE: California Gold Rush | Digging Deeper | 4How the California Gold Rush shifted from a free-for-all to a more dangerous, civic-minded, and industrialized system—driven by fires, crime, women’s entrepreneurship, vigilante justice, and the move…29 Aug 2025 · 35 min · 10 chapters
FAN FAVORITE: California Gold Rush | Battlelines | 3California Gold Rush (1848–1851) and how it escalated violence against Native Californians (Miwok, Nisenan, Pomo, Wapo, Yokuts, Awanichi), including state disenfranchisement, massacres, and failed…27 Aug 2025 · 40 min · 15 chapters
FAN FAVORITE: The Insurrection of Aaron Burr | Treason on Trial | 4Aaron Burr’s 1807 “insurrection” plot, his capture near Wakefield, and the legal fight over whether he could be convicted of treason; the episode also tracks his later flight, exile in Europe, and…27 Aug 2025 · 41 min · 19 chapters
FAN FAVORITE: California Gold Rush | The Forty Niners | 2The 1849 California Gold Rush, focusing on how 49ers traveled west (sea routes vs overland), the dangers and hardships on the trail and in mining camps, how gold was extracted, and how sudden wealth…22 Aug 2025 · 38 min · 11 chapters
FAN FAVORITE: The Insurrection of Aaron Burr | The Severance of the Union | 3Aaron Burr’s 1806 expedition from Blenner-Hassett Island toward Spanish Mexico, the escalating conspiracy rumors, and the “severance of the Union” plot—ending with Burr’s arrest without a shot fired.20 Aug 2025 · 41 min · 16 chapters
FAN FAVORITE: California Gold Rush | The First Strike | 1Episode 1 (“The First Strike”) of American History Tellers’ four-part California Gold Rush series.20 Aug 2025 · 37 min · 11 chapters
FAN FAVORITE: The Insurrection of Aaron Burr | Gathering Forces | 2Aaron Burr’s post–vice presidency conspiracy (1804–1806) to carve out a new western empire, using Louisiana secession, a Mexico invasion, and possible British/Spanish support.13 Aug 2025 · 42 min · 12 chapters
FAN FAVORITE: The Insurrection of Aaron Burr | An Affair of Honor | 1Episode 1 of “The Insurrection of Aaron Burr” (American History Tellers) covers Aaron Burr’s rivalry with Alexander Hamilton, the July 11, 1804 duel at Weehawken, and how Hamilton’s death led to…6 Aug 2025 · 39 min · 14 chapters
Evolution on Trial | Live and Let Live | 4The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” and its aftermath, framed as a broader fight over academic freedom, constitutional rights, and control of what children learn—especially in the context of the 1920s Red…30 Jul 2025 · 38 min · 17 chapters