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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How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady 2018-07-09
The time America invaded Britain 2018-07-06
The teen who tied a Virginia election 2018-07-05
Thomas Jefferson's last letter 2018-07-04
The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die 2018-07-03
The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space 2018-07-02
That time we thought an asteroid might kill us all 2018-06-29
The femme fatale 2018-06-28
The first congresswoman’s vote 2018-06-27
How Hollywood’s first major blockbuster revived the KKK 2018-06-26
The first pride parade 2018-06-25
The oldest surviving banjo recording 2018-06-22
The worst presidents 2018-06-21
Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods 2018-06-20
The first shark attacks 2018-06-19
Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet 2018-06-18
This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him 2018-06-15
Thomas Jefferson’s iftar dinner and the long history of Ramadan at the White House 2018-06-14
The biscuit tin 2018-06-13
Before Loving, another interracial couple fought to marry 2018-06-12
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