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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 22 hours 59 minutes
episode 17: Introducing: Hope, Through History
Hope, Through History with Jon Meacham explores some of the most trying times in American history, and how we came through these moments a unified nation.
episode 17: The Hunt for the Hunley
May 3, 1995. The Hunley has been missing for over 100 years. This Civil War submarine and all eight of her crew disappeared after completing the first successful submarine attack ever. When a team of divers finally locates the wreck in the mid ‘90s, it...
episode 19: Beethoven's Silent Symphony
May 7, 1824. One of the great musical icons in history, Ludwig Van Beethoven, steps onto stage at the Kärntnertor Theater in Vienna. The audience is electric, buzzing with anticipation for a brand new symphony from the legendary compo...
episode 20: To Fight a Virus, and Win
May 14, 1796. Edward Jenner tests a theory: can contracting one disease save you from another? Jenner is crowned as the father of vaccination. But decades before Jenner, how did an unlikely trio pave the way for this great invention in modern medicine?
episode 21: Captain Kidd and the Nazis
May 23, 1701. Captain William Kidd is hanged at Execution Dock in London. His death sentence cements his legacy as one of history’s most notorious pirates, but he went to the gallows claiming to be an innocent man. And he may have bee...
episode 22: A Gilded Age Apocalypse
May 31, 1889. It’s raining in Johnstown, PA, causing some small flooding. But the townsfolk were used to it – this city of 30,000 was nestled in a valley between two rivers. What happened next was something every person in Johnstown feared, but hoped w...
episode 23: A Century of Stigma for Black America and Mental Health
June 1, 1840. The very first time the U.S. government asks a question about mental health on the census. But this question will uphold a racist lie that is already spreading throughout America: that freedom causes black people to go insane.
episode 25: Freedom Summer, 1964
June 21, 1964. James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, three civil rights activists in their early twenties, are reported missing in Mississippi. They are part of the first wave of Freedom Summer, a massive voter registration campaign in th...
episode 26: Pride & Protest
June 28, 1970. Hundreds of people start to gather on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s West Village for an anniversary celebration. One year earlier, in that very same spot, the Stonewall Inn was raided by police, sparking a revolution. Now, LGBTQ+ peo...
episode 27: The Great Stink
June 30th, 1858. London is a world city, a global center of trade and commerce. But there’s something less glamorous going on in this bustling metropolis: the smell. And it's killing people. How did short-term thinking lead to a deadly problem?