In the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution, a new kind of battlefield emerged—not with rifles and sabers, but with brushes and paint. This episode dives into the powerful world of post-revolutionary muralists like Diego Rivera, José Clemente Or...

Most Romans weren’t emperors or senators—they were plebs. In this episode, we explore the crowded, noisy, and gritty world of ordinary Romans and what it really meant to live in the shadow of the empire.

In the 1980s, the Swiss watch industry was on life support—until a playful plastic watch with bold colors and serious Swiss engineering turned everything around. This week, we dive into the wild story of how Swatch didn't just sell timepieces—t...

Amputation has been a part of human history for thousands of years—sometimes lifesaving, often brutal, and always evolving. In this episode, we trace the strange and bloody path of amputation from ancient surgical tools in the BCE era, through ...

In this episode, we uncover the incredible true story of the Wichita Monrovians, an all- Black semi-pro baseball team, who played a 1925 exhibition game against a team representing the Ku Klux Klan.  We explore the social tensions of the e...