How We Got Here

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Ordinary people, extraordinary times - what it was really like to live through history's biggest moments. From gods and empires to trenches and technology: each episode opens with a broad era overview, then zooms into one individual's day - a Cullman farm boy in 1917, a flapper in 1920s Chicago, a Roman soldier in Judea - as history happens around them. Only verifiable history; dramatized scenes are labeled as reconstruction.

Episodes

  1. 5d ago

    How We Got Here: The Telegraph Operator of Bismarck

    June–July 1876. Carnahan, the Bismarck telegraph operator, sits at his key while an army column rides beyond the wire — and on the night of July 5, keys the news of the Little Bighorn east, name by name, for about twenty-two hours. Standalone episode. AI Generated

  2. Oct 24

    How We Got Here: The Gravedigger of Florence

    1348. Marco is a Florentine gravedigger, and this plague summer his parish churchyard fills, then the mass trenches begin. Walt opens up wide on the connected world that carried the plague - the Mongol roads, the Genoese galleys, the rats in the grain - then zooms into one working man's days, and asks the question that drives the whole episode: how did this happen? AI Generated

  3. Oct 24

    How We Got Here: One Night in Chicago, 1926

    One Saturday night in a Chicago speakeasy, October 1926. A flapper, a bootlegger, and a suffragist's daughter walk into the same illegal room — and into the hinge of Prohibition, jazz, and the modern American woman. Standalone episode. AI Generated

  4. Oct 24

    How We Got Here: The Soldier at the Cross

    33 AD. Cassian is a Syrian auxiliary in the Roman cohort garrisoned at Jerusalem's Antonia Fortress, and this Passover Friday he draws execution detail at Golgotha. Walt opens up wide on the machine that made that morning - Tiberius's empire, Pilate's politics, a province holding a match - then zooms into one soldier's day, and asks the question that drives the whole episode: how did this happen? AI Generated

  5. Oct 24

    How We Got Here: The Baker's Wife of Paris

    October 1789. Genevieve is a Paris baker's wife, and on a rainy Monday morning she walks twelve miles to Versailles with the market women to demand bread from the king — and brings the baker, the baker's wife, and the baker's boy home to Paris. Standalone episode. AI Generated

  6. Sep 30

    How We Got Here: The Furthest From Home

    AI Generated

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Ordinary people, extraordinary times - what it was really like to live through history's biggest moments. From gods and empires to trenches and technology: each episode opens with a broad era overview, then zooms into one individual's day - a Cullman farm boy in 1917, a flapper in 1920s Chicago, a Roman soldier in Judea - as history happens around them. Only verifiable history; dramatized scenes are labeled as reconstruction.

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