In Los Angeles, California, the fresh recruits, with their new crew cuts and wrinkled uniforms, would get their first taste of combat on February 24th, 1942...

Saigon, Vietnam. April 1975.

Childbed fever was killing new mothers with a vengeance. In Hungary, young doctor Ignaz Semmelweis found a cure. However, there was one problem... No one believed him.

Baseball has long been dubbed America’s pastime, but would that change if players had to literally play for their lives?

In the 1850s, a Christian cult rattles imperial China to its core...

Mummies, hieroglyphs, pyramids, vintage fashion; this episode has it all!

History is full of moments of misfortune, irony, or just plain ol’ bad luck. This episode contains eight mini-stories about the times where things went from bad to worse.

This episode is devoted to story of 800 year old Notre Dame cathedral and it's incredibly storied past.

The story of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has everything I'm looking for when looking for topics: A wild ride full of twists, turns, and downright unbelievable moments.

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue...