Relics and treasures reveal U.S. history

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Spectacle

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All Brave Sailors: The Sinking of the Anglo Saxon, 1940

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California History -- Two Pieces

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DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America

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The Weird and Mysterious United States: Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena across America

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Revisiting the Titanic: The Exploration of the Wreck and Current Controversies Surrounding the World’s Most Famous Ship

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The First Americans: In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

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Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes

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Summary of Valerie Hansen's The Year 1000

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Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy

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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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Summary of Hugh Eakin's Picasso's War

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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

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The Valley of the Kings: The History of Ancient Egypt's Most Famous Tombs and Burial Site

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Australia: A History Book of Australia

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Tutankhamun's Trumpet: Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects from the Boy-King's Tomb

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Fake

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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure

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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

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Niccolò Rising

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Pamunkey Indian Museum: King William Virginia

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Jack Howard

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The Slave Trade: Black Lives and the Drive for Profit

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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat

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Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen

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An Independent Empire: Diplomacy & War in the Making of the United States

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American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed Into the Lands and Imaginations of America

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Archaeology of the Anunnaki Sumerians: Revealing Strange Artifacts and Mesopotamia Mysteries

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Freedom in Congo Square

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After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age

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Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: French Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase

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Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

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We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

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Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time

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Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

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Speak with Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others

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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds

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Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic

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All the President's Men

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The Six Cs of Effective Storytelling

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Summary: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen By David Brooks: Key Takeaways, Summary and Analysis

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Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour

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The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Level 5, B2+

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On Writing Well Audio Collection

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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

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The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

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Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told

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How to Write Your First Novel: The Stress-Free Guide to Writing Fiction for Beginners

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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text

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Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program)

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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

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A Home for Black History: How a museum tells the story of the US via the lens of the African American experience

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Black Atlantic: Artist Jaqueline Bishop and curator of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge

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Free Thinking - Sicily. John Hardyng's Chronicle. The London Library: Anne McElvoy on Sicily plus the London Library at 175 with Tom Stoppard.

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Annabelle Doll, Bridge Collapse, Whale Attack: Locked inside a glass case at the Warren's Occult Museum in Connecticut is what may be its most sinister artifact: a rag doll named Annabelle. The museum's curators say it's linked to a visitor's sudden death. But what is the real story behind this devilish doll? A long-forgotten blueprint is stored in the archives of the Minnesota History Center. Does this 40-year-old plan hold the key to the apocalyptic collapse of the I-35W Bridge? And a leather-bound journal on display at the Nantucket Whaling Museum recounts a legendary story of sacrifice and survival. What classic piece of American literature did this memoir inspire?

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Rewind: The American Museum of Natural History: Ancient space rocks, dinosaur fossils, anthropological artifacts and biological specimens are housed in New York's world famous natural history complex on the Upper West Side -- the American Museum of Natural History! Throughout the 19th century, New Yorkers tried to establish a legitimate natural history venue in the city, including an aborted plan for a Central Park dinosaur pavilion. With the creation of the American Museum of Natural History, the city finally had a premier institution that celebrated science and sent expeditions to the four corners of the earth. Tune in to hear the stories of some of the museum's most treasured artifacts and the origins of its collection. But there's also a dark side to the museum's history, one that includes the tragic tale of Minik the Inughuit child, subject by museum directors to a bizarre and cruel lie. PLUS: How exactly do you display a 68,100 lb meteorite? AND: What will be the fate of that

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Curating as Caretaking: In this episode, museum curators challenge the status quo and connect their ancestry to advance how history is told in cultural institutions. Mary Elliot brings listeners behind the scenes into the Slavery and Freedom exhibition at the Smithsonian's...

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S2 E35: Uncovering Archaeology's Hidden Treasures . . . Out of Desert and Ice

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Santa Claus Heist, Long Island Heiress, Papago Park: The Conrad Hilton Community Center Museum in Cisco, Texas contains a pair of handcuffs that once bound the wrists of an infamous bank robber with a clever disguise. The Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, New York displays a glamorous dress once warn by the prime suspect in a scandalous murder case. And at the Arizona Military Museum in Phoenix Cultural History a simple leather bag that once belonged to a legendary prisoner of war reminds visitors of a daring escape from one of the country's toughest prisons.

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‘We’re Still Here’: Canoe Journey to Alcatraz to Remember the Native American Occupation 50 Years Ago: On Monday, Native people from across the West Coast gathered in San Francisco for a ceremonial canoe journey to Alcatraz Island. Each canoe represented a territory, tribe, community or family. They paddled to celebrate culture and values on Indigenous ...

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Sudanese slit drum: Neil MacGregor with a wooden drum from Sudan that Kitchener presented to Queen Victoria.

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Australian bark shield: Neil MacGregor with an aboriginal bark shield brought from Australia by Captain Cook.

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#116 American Museum of Natural History

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East River Blowout, The Day It Rained Meat, Michigan Triangle: At the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, a piece of early 1900's industrial machinery reminds visitors of a catastrophic subterranean disaster that took place beneath the east river. At the Monroe Moosnick Museum at Transylvania University in Lexington Kentucky, a medical jar containing a strange substance is the only evidence from a freak meteorological event in which meat rained from the sky. And At the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven Michigan, a tattered old salmon colored dress shirt is a poignant reminder of a mysterious and otherworldly aviation anomaly.

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#402 Treasures from the World's Fair: There is much nostalgia today for the 1939-1940 World's Fair and its stranger, more visually chaotic 1964-65 World's Fair. And that nostalgia has fueled a thriving market for collectables from these fairs -- the souvenirs and other common household items branded with the two fairs' striking visual symbols.

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Sutton Hoo Helmet: Neil MacGregor with one of the most sensational finds from Anglo-Saxon Britain.

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Theremin - A Spy Instrument, Accidental Mummies, Military Supply Box: Secured in the archives of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia is one of the first electronic instruments ever made. But this piece of outdated technology is more than just a footnote in musical history. How did this bizarre instrument play a part in triggering one of the biggest spy scandals of the century? At the Detroit Science Center, 36 bodies arranged in a chilling display are mysteriously preserved - and they aren't the carefully prepared bodies of Egyptian royalty. For decades, their discovery has baffled scientists... until now. At the Mariners' Museum in Newport News Virginia, an ordinary military supply box has a shocking past. It's the only piece of cargo from the USS Cyclops, a ship from the First World War which dropped off the face of the earth. What happened to the ship... and does this box hold the clue?

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Sean Kingsley on Confronting Colonial Amnesia: Dredging Up the Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: In conversation with Andrew Keen

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What is cultural about the Cultural Revolution? Paul Clark on creativity amid destruction

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Sheppton Mine Disaster, Bite Board, Erie Collar Bomb: In Elysburg, Pennsylvania, the Anthracite Mining Museum contains a makeshift device rigged from a parachute harness and coveralls that played a role in a dangerous mine rescues. The California Surf Museum is home to a styrofoam and fiberglass surfboard with a large chunk missing, bitten off by a ferocious shark. And at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, DC is a crude metal device that represents a daring and explosive bank heist.

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National Gallery of Art, Afro-Atlantic Histories

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458a Adventure Divas; Norse Mythology; Acropolis

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Plunder stolen?: On August 16th, the ...

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Why Western museums should return African artifacts

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458 Adventure Divas; Norse Mythology; Acropolis

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A Flyby of the Icelandic Aviation Museum (S01/E12): A Visit to the Icelandic Aviation Museum in Akureyri, Iceland

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Correcting History: Native Americans Tell Their Own Stories: Natural history museums have always struggled with representing Native Americans. People from these communities are often not included in the process, and their artifacts can be mishandled. But the Field Museum in Chicago, in partnership with the Neubauer Collegium, is trying to change that. Along with the first large-scale show to be curated by an Indigenous person, the Field is overhauling its Native North American Hall, to address the insensitive past of many natural history museums.

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#173 Ruins of the World's Fair: New York State Pavilion

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Akan drum: Neil MacGregor with an African drum taken to America during the slave trade.

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Chinatown Museum Reopens: Experience New Exhibits in Virtual Reality: Join us and get a taste of what a 21st century museum can look like!

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Vale of York Hoard: Neil MacGregor explores a great Viking silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire.