History

Joyce Leader, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda, on the diplomatic effort that tried but failed to prevent the Rwanda genocide.

Jessica McDiarmid on how society has failed the Indigenous women and girls who have gone missing or been found murdered along British Columbia’s Highway 16.

“Sabotaged” tells the story of a group of European intellectuals and frustrated individuals who attempted to establish a socialist utopia in Texas in 1855—a Fourierist colony called La Réunion.

Before the days of personal computers and search engines, Evelyn Wood promised that her speed-reading method could teach users to read thousands of words per minute, without loss of comprehension.

Anthopologist Don Kulick—author of “A Death in the Rainforest”—on his effort to learn and document Tayap while living in a remote, backwater swamp in violence-ridden Papua New Guinea.

Peter Houlahan’s “Norco 80” recounts the story of the violent, armed robbery of the Security Pacific Bank in Norco, California.

“Aloha Rodeo” is the story of three Hawaiian cowboys, who came to Wyoming to compete at Cheyenne Frontier Days and returned to Hawaii as rodeo champions. You didn’t know Hawaii had cowboys, did you?

In the midst of the Great Depression, Plennie Wingo aspired to walk backward around the world. He expected to find fame and fortune, but did he meet with success?

A new history of the Wright Brothers argues it was Wilbur who solved the problem of manned flight, and that his brother Orville was little more than an assistant.

Rachel Slade, author of “Into the Raging Sea,” on Hurricane Joaquin and the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years.

Betsy A. Thorpe, author of “The Day the Whistles Cried,” on the deadliest train wreck in U.S. history, which occurred 100 years ago this month in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cary Griffith, author of “Gunflint Burning,” on Minnesota’s Ham Lake fire, a running crown fire started by Stephen Posniak, one which consumed 76,000 acres of forest in the U.S. and Canada and cost $11 million to extinguish.

Walter Plecker—the first Registrar of the Virginia Bureau of Vital Statistics—tried to purify the white race in Virginia by what amounted to bureaucratic genocide.

In Bright Sun Films’ Abandoned YouTube series, filmmaker Jake Williams explores abandoned stores, resorts, amusement parks, malls, tourist destinations and the like.

On December 6, 1917, the Mont-Blanc and Imo collided in Halifax Harbour, in what is now known as the Halifax Explosion or Great Halifax Explosion.

On March 27, 1964—Good Friday—the most powerful earthquake in the history of North America struck the state of Alaska.

Kate Moore tells the century-old story of the girls who worked in radium-dial factories—young women who became victims of corporate greed and died painful, horrific deaths, but not before pursuing legal action that helped improve workplace safety.

On September 16-17, 2017, RADIOEE will present Transmissao Fordlandia, a special live broadcast from the site of Henry Ford’s failed plantation city in the Amazon jungle.

Robert Klara, author of “The Devil’s Mercedes,” on the forgotten story of how Nazi limousines came to America after World War II—and “how Americans responded to rolling relics of fascism on their soil.”

On June 25, 2017, history will repeat itself when George Armstrong Custer—er, “foremost Custer living historian” Steve Alexander—leads the 7th Cavalry into battle at the annual Real Bird Battle of the Little Bighorn reenactment. “Every year we try to win,” says Alexander, “but the battle always turns out the same way.”