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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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Edison vs. Tesla | Triumph of Illumination | 3
May 20, 2026
By 1888, the race to power America's cities had become a battle between the rival visions of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla. But when the powerful industrialist George Westinghouse threw his weight…
Edison vs. Tesla | Work of the World | 2
May 13, 2026
In the spring of 1884, a little-known Serbian immigrant named Nikola Tesla arrived in America with little more than a letter of introduction to the most famous inventor in the world – Thomas Edison…
Edison vs. Tesla | Prometheus’ Fire | 1
May 06, 2026
In the 1870s, the age of artificial light was still in its infancy. Gas lamps cast a dim glow on city streets, and early arc lights were just beginning to appear in a handful of public spaces. But…
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane | After the Storm | 4
Apr 29, 2026
The devastation of the 1900 Galveston hurricane left thousands dead and a city in ruins — but it also set in motion a remarkable story of recovery and reinvention. As survivors buried their dead and…
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane | City of Doom | 3
Apr 22, 2026
On September 9, 1900, the residents of Galveston, Texas woke up to find their island in ruins. Entire neighborhoods had vanished overnight. Telegraph, telephone, and electrical lines were destroyed…
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane | Night of Terrors | 2
Apr 15, 2026
As a catastrophic hurricane approached Galveston, Texas on the morning of September 8, 1900, residents continued to go about their daily lives, with little warning of what was to come. Children…
The 1900 Galveston Hurricane | An Absurd Delusion | 1
Apr 08, 2026
At the turn of the 20th century, a booming cotton trade had made the Gulf Coast city of Galveston, Texas an economic powerhouse. Located just a few feet above sea level on a narrow barrier island, it…
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Harper Lee: Mockingbird | 6
Apr 01, 2026
In 1949, aspiring writer Nelle Harper Lee moved from her home in small-town Alabama to New York City. She was following in the footsteps of her childhood friend, author Truman Capote. Within a few…
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | James Baldwin: The Exile | 5
Mar 25, 2026
Born into poverty in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin rose to become a celebrated novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet, and a leading voice in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. In his debut…
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | John Steinbeck: The Observer | 4
Mar 18, 2026
Growing up in the Salinas Valley of Northern California, John Steinbeck dreamed of becoming a professional writer. In his youth he took on odd jobs and worked amongst ranch hands and migrant workers…
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Mark Twain: Voice of a Nation | 3
Mar 11, 2026
In the late 1850s, a young man named Samuel Clemens started out piloting steamboats on the Mississippi River. Within a few years, he embarked on a writing career, adopting the pen name that became…
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Louisa May Alcott: The Breadwinner | 2
Mar 04, 2026
In 1840, eight-year-old Louisa May Alcott moved to the small town of Concord, Massachusetts with her family. There, she spent her days wandering through the woods, putting on plays with her sisters…
Fan Favorite: Great American Authors | Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Macabre | 1
Feb 25, 2026
In February 1826, 17-year-old Edgar Allan Poe was a promising student at the University of Virginia. But within a few months, gambling debts forced him to abandon his studies. It was just one of many…
St. Valentines Day Massacre: Closing In On Capone | 3
Feb 18, 2026
In the aftermath of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, authorities faced mounting pressure to clean up Chicago and take down the violent mobsters who overran the city – most notoriously, Al Capone…
St. Valentines Day Massacre | Public Enemy No. 1 | 2
Feb 11, 2026
On Valentine’s Day 1929, seven men were gunned down in a Chicago garage in an attack that stunned the nation. Photographs of the bloody scene appeared on front pages across the country, and the…
St. Valentines Day Massacre | The Land of Bilk and Money | 1
Feb 04, 2026
In 1920, a young Al Capone arrived in Chicago looking for a fresh start, and his timing couldn’t have been better. That same year, Prohibition outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcohol, turning…
Conquering Polio | There Is No Patent | 4
Jan 28, 2026
In the early 1950s, Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin were in a race to develop a vaccine against polio. While Salk’s killed-virus vaccine was the first to be distributed, Sabin continued working to…
Conquering Polio | The Cutter Fiasco | 3
Jan 21, 2026
In April 1954, a group of first graders lined up in the gymnasium of an elementary school in McLean, Virginia for the start of the Salk polio vaccine trials. In an era before widespread federal…
Conquering Polio | Beyond the Microscope | 2
Jan 14, 2026
By the late 1940s, the National Institute of Infantile Paralysis had raised millions of dollars to pay for patient care and laboratory research. But polio cases were reaching record levels, and…
The Ice King | Indian Summer | 4
Jan 07, 2026
After two turbulent decades in the ice trade, Frederic Tudor had finally made it. Expanding into the American South had paid off, with cities like New Orleans delivering steady profit. But Tudor’s…
Conquering Polio | The March of Dimes | 1
Jan 07, 2026
In the summer of 1921, 39-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt was on vacation with his family when he developed a fever, muscle aches, and chills. Pain spread to his legs, and soon, he was paralyzed…
The Ice King | Slippery Business | 3
Dec 24, 2025
By 1816, Frederic Tudor had spent a decade shipping New England ice to Cuba—with little to show for it. Setbacks and vanished profits nearly ruined him, and a gamble on shipping tropical fruit had…
The Ice King | Frozen Assets | 2
Dec 17, 2025
In 1806, Frederic Tudor set out to build a fortune by shipping ice from his family’s pond near Boston to the tropical Caribbean—an audacious idea no one believed in. But turning frozen water into…
The Ice King | No Joke | 1
Dec 10, 2025
In 1801, a young Boston merchant named Frederic Tudor made a life-changing visit to Cuba. There he had a wildly ambitious idea: he would ship New England ice to the sweltering Caribbean, where no one…
The Mayflower | The Thanksgiving Myth | 5
Dec 03, 2025
In 1620 the Pilgrims arrived in a land already shaped by centuries of Native history. For the people who lived there, the Wampanoag, it was Patuxet—a place with its own stories, its own politics…
History Daily: The Assassination of Sergei Kirov
Dec 01, 2025
December 1, 1934. Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated by a lone gunman, giving Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin the justification to purge the Communist Party of his rivals. You can listen…
The Mayflower | Cutthroats | 4
Nov 26, 2025
In May 1622, the Pilgrims were still reeling from Squanto’s betrayal when a ship appeared in Plymouth Harbor, carrying an advance party for a rival English colony. Governor William Bradford…
History Daily: Darwin’s Origin of Species
Nov 24, 2025
November 24, 1859. Charles Darwin sparks a scientific revolution by introducing the theory of evolution in his book On the Origin of Species. You can listen ad-free in the Wondery or Amazon Music…
The Mayflower | The First Thanksgiving | 3
Nov 19, 2025
"The winter of 1620-21 took a deadly toll on Plymouth Colony. The Pilgrims had only just begun to construct their homes when illness began spreading through the settlement. Their flimsy shelters…
The Mayflower | A Sea of Troubles | 2
Nov 12, 2025
"In the fall of 1620, the Mayflower embarked on a 3,000-mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Over the next nine weeks, its passengers and crew battled fierce storms and rampant illness. They had…