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Favorite Historical Films
Gordon and Nancy Frye chat about six of their favorite historical films, with a few bonus mentions.
Questionable Historical Elections
A short history of questionable elections in United States history, featuring Gordon Frye.
The Nellie Bly Story Part 2
In 1888, Nellie Bly decided to take a working vacation, a trip around the world. Not only would she write about her adventures, but she would also try to complete the journey in under 80 days, beating the time of Jules Verne’s fictional hero, Phileas Fogg
The Nellie Bly Story Part 1
This is the story of a young, pretty woman in the latter half of the nineteenth century who oddly had no desire to get married, have kids, or run a household. She became a pioneering reform-minded journalist, exposing many injustices and corruption in Ame
Killer Women!
On this special Halloween edition of CWJ, I present two true stories of Serial killer. First, in 1880, Catherine and Margaret Flannagan found a great way to make extra cash, it just took a little arsenic. The second tale is the story of a nurse who they c
The Daniel Sickles Story Part 2
This episode is the second part of the story of Daniel Sickle, a very unusual man that lived in the ninetieth century. Dan was disgraced for forgiving his wife for having an affair, so he thought the best thing to do was be a General in the American Civil
The Daniel Sickles Story Part 1
This episode is the first part of the story of Daniel Sickle, a very unusual man that lived in the ninetieth century. In 1859 he shot and killed a man in front of the White House in Washington DC in front of several witnesses and got away with it. And it
Outsider Presidents
There's nothing new under the sun, especially when it comes to high-stakes politics, and things really get crazy when an outsider throws their hat in the ring!
Rosalind Franklin
Back in the early 1950s, there was a race to discover DNA. When it was over, three men would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Overlooked at the time was a remarkable chemist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin. Today I have this wo
Albert Einstein's Brain
This is the story of Dr. Thomas S. Harvey who did the autopsy of theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. When he finished, he kept something to study… Einstein’s brain! For more than 40 years, he would travel around with the brain. This is the story of Dr.