Our Episodes
Season 2 – Episode 09: The Legend Of The Nain Rouge
There must be some reason behind Detroit’s bad luck in the last three-plus centuries. We have the explanation: Du Nain Rouge in French, or the Red Dwarf in English....
Season 2 – Episode 08: General Motors in the 1920s: How A Struggling Company Became the Chrome Colossus
In 1920, General Motors was a company in trouble. Its founder was fired – for a second time. Henry Ford was eating GM’s lunch with his Model T. But...
Season 2 – Episode 07: Milliken v. Bradley, The Case Of Cross-District Busing
The topic of busing proved to be one of the most volatile issues in metro Detroit during the early 1970s. This came to a head in the case of...
Season 2 – Episode 06: The 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions
It’s been more than 60 years since the Detroit Lions won an NFL Championship. In the 50s, the Lions were one of the most dominant dynasties in the league,...
Season 2 – Episode 05: John Lee Hooker And The Blues on Hastings Street
Bluesman John Lee Hooker’s recording career spanned more than 40 years — from his hit record, Boogie Chillen’, which was recorded in Detroit in 1948, to his Grammy Award-winning...
Season 2 – Episode 04: 1943, Detroit’s Forgotten Riot
For two days in 1943, Detroit erupted into a flat-out race war. Thirty-four people died as whites and African-Americans battled each other in the streets. People were ripped from...
Season 2 – Episode 03: The Last Days Of Harry Houdini
Before radio, TV, and the internet magician Harry Houdini was described as the world’s first rock star. So when he died in Detroit after a performance here in 1926,...
Season 2 – Episode 02: Remembering The Anchor, Detroit’s Most Famous Newspaper Bar
The Anchor Bar, situated on the western end of downtown Detroit, was once one of the country’s best-known newspaper bars. As one of the city’s most notorious watering holes,...
Season 2 – Episode 01: Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism
Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent newspaper published a series of anti-Semitic articles in the 1920s. They gained wide traction, were translated into several languages and gathered together in a four-volume...
Our Season 1 Finale: The 1968 World Champion Detroit Tigers
In the season finale of The Detroit History Podcast, we partnered with The Detroit Historical Museum to talk about the 1968 World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the...
Season 1 – Episode 09: The Birth And Growth Of Detroit Techno
If Detroit was a sound, what would that sound be? Although some would say Motown, others say that sound would be Techno music. In this episode of The Detroit...
Season 1 – Episode 08: The History Of Arab Immigration In Dearborn
Metro Detroit boasts the largest local concentration of Arabs in North America, many of whom settled in Dearborn. We trace that migration back more than a century. We follow...