No, there’s nothing wrong with your audio. That sound is the gateway to the best place to live in the year 2100, at least in North America. And, depending on what you like, it may be the best place ri

This episode is focused less on the history of a hometown, than a hometown that specializes in history. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee is famous for tourist attractions and southern hospitality but it’s

I don’t know a better way to introduce this episode than by just saying the Biltmore estate is one of my favorite places in the world. It’s the largest private home in the United States and it’s si

On a warm summer day in 1900, the village idiot of Oak Ridge, Tennessee laid on his back in the middle of the woods and heard the voice of God. Returning home, he told his wife: In the woods, as

17-year-old Lepa Radić was a Yugoslavian partisan, having joined the communist party at age 15. Two years later, while tending to the wounded at the battle of Neretva, Lepa was captured and tortured f

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She was known by many names - the Siren of the Shenandoah, the Rebel Joan of Arc, the Cleopatra of Secession – but when the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter in April 1861, she was just seventeen-

There are some unsolved mysteries that aren’t mysteries at all. On the afternoon of July 10, 1981, a group of 40 townspeople surrounded a brown Chevrolet pickup truck in the small town of Skidmore,

We’ve named this episode after The Hunt for the Red October because it’s kind of like that, but instead of a Soviet submarine, the search is on for a powerful sleeper agent, known to the US government

The year is 1861 and America is in the grips of a bloody Civil War that will change it forever. In Richmond, the capital of the new Confederate States, Southern Belles and Ladies are sewing uniforms,