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William Parker’s War on Slave Catchers
When freedom seekers fight back against government-backed slave-hunting gangs.
Mar 30
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The First Robot
A playwright invents the “robot” — sparking a century of A.I. fear.
Mar 23
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HTW Live: Busting the Myths of Irish Immigration — Recorded at the Tenement Museum
For St. Patrick’s Day, we recorded our first-ever live episode from the Tenement Museum with historian Tyler Anbinder on famine-era Irish immigrants in…
Mar 16
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Axis Sally & the Nazi Propaganda Machine
The strange path that led an American actress to become Nazi Germany’s most notorious radio propagandist.
Mar 9
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Stalin Is Dead! | Сталин мертв!
The secret plot to replace a tyrant.
Mar 2
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February 2026
Last chance: Tickets for HISTORY This Week Live!
At the Tenement Museum in New York City - March 4th at 6:30 PM.
Feb 27
4
Disneyland on a Deadline
The crazy year Walt Disney raced to build his theme park.
Feb 23
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How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River
The impossible engineering feat that 200,000 people still rely on every day.
Feb 16
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HISTORY This Week returns with new stories this Monday!
Season 7 kicks off with the train tunnels everybody in the country is talking about.
Feb 12
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Shut Out of the Majors, They Created Their Own
Rube Foster and the owners who organized the Negro Leagues, changing baseball forever.
Feb 9
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HISTORY This Week Live!
At the Tenement Museum in New York City - March 4th at 6:30 PM.
Feb 9
9
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The Great Comic Book Scare
The hearings, the panic, and the fight over comics in 1950s America.
Feb 2
15
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