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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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