Special Episode- The Ted Lindsay Interview
The Detroit Red Wings 100th season has begun, so The Detroit History Podcast team thought we’d revisit an interview we did...
Season 6 – Episode 8: Michigan Central Station: The Ellis Island of Detroit
The Michigan Central Station reopening has given Detroit a great story to tell, specifically: how we took a wreck...
Season 6 – Episode 7: Chung’s and Detroit’s Chinatown
As a child growing up in metro Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s, Curtis Chin watched the world go...
Season 6 – Episode 6: The Edsel: The Road to Lemonville
The Ford Motor Company had momentum going into the mid-1950s: a young Henry Ford II, who inherited the CEO...
Season 6 – Episode 5: The Last Hanging in Detroit
On a fall day in 1830, convicted wife killer Stephen Simmons was hung in downtown Detroit. His execution was...
Season 6 – Episode 4: How the DIA Turned From a Private Art Collection Into a World-Renowned Museum
Here’s where Detroit was, art-wise, in 1917: A middling art museum on the east edge of downtown Detroit, with...
Season 6 – Episode 3: Bird, Barry and Miles: The Blue Bird Inn during the 1950s
The Blue Bird Inn was a cathedral of musical wonder in 1950s-era Detroit. This now-defunct west side club featured...
Season 6 – Episode 2: The Polar Bears of World War 1
A group of soldiers from metro Detroit and Michigan boarded a trip ship bound for war-torn Europe during the...
Season 6 – Episode 1: The Sheik and Big Time Wrestling
The Sheik (real name: Edward Farhat) was the most feared bad guy in Detroit wrestling during the 1960s and...
The 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions: Revisited
It’s been 5 years since the Detroit History Podcast originally released their podcast on the 1957 NFL champion Detroit...
Season 5 Finale- The Development of PCP and Ketamine
Ketamine has found wide uses since the 1960s: as a painkiller, an anesthetic, a street drug consumed at raves,...
Season 5 – Episode 9: Fran Harris, The First Female Newscaster in Michigan
Newscaster Fran Harris’s life was a lifetime of firsts. She was the first woman newscaster in Detroit radio during...
Season 5 – Episode 8: A Century of Mexicantown
A longstanding community called Mexicantown on Detroit’s southwest side has persevered for around a century. The area of restaurants,...
Season 5 – Episode 7: The Biography of a Rumor: The “Paul McCartney Is Dead” Hoax
Thousands of phonograph records were destroyed, as were thousands of needles used on the old-style record players. Teenage sleuths...
Special Episode- The Michigan Murders, a Conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Andrew Templeton, & a DHP Update
In this special episode, we give an update on The Detroit History Podcast and tell you what we’ve been working on...