The Detroit History Podcast

The Detroit History Podcast returns for Season Six with a menu of programs as diverse as wrestling, bebop jazz, and a failed automobile. We'll look at the life of The Sheik, who threw fire and terrorized fellow grapplers during his wrestling career, which peaked in the 1960s and beyond. We saw something different on the road while we prepped for Season Six: an Edsel, which was the biggest flop in automotive history when it was introduced in 1957. We wanted to know: how could the smart people at Ford Motor Company fail in such a big way? We'll hear about the Bluebird Inn, a west side jazz club where Miles Davis played in 1953 and 1954. And we'll explain how the Detroit Institute of Arts grew in the 1920s, acquiring priceless Van Gogh paintings at a time when nobody knew who he was. New episodes drop every Sunday night at 8.

Season 6, Episode 1- The Sheik and Big Time Wrestling 04/21/2024

The 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions Revisited 01/25/2024

Season 5 Finale- The Development of PCP and Ketamine 12/12/2022

Season 5, Episode 9- Fran Harris, The First Female Newscaster in Michigan 12/05/2022

Season 5, Episode 8- A Century of Mexicantown 11/28/2022

Season 5, Episode 7- The Biography of a Rumor: The "Paul McCartney is Dead" Hoax 11/14/2022

Season 5, Episode 6- The Origins of Detroit Style Pizza 11/07/2022

Season 5, Episode 5- The Michigan Democratic Social Club Triple Beheading 10/31/2022

Season 5, Episode 4- The Native American Origins of Detroit 10/24/2022

Season 5, Episode 3- The 1863 Civil War Riot 10/17/2022

Season 5, Episode 2- The Ford Hunger March 10/10/2022

Season 5, Episode 1- Joe Louis, The Punch of Detroit 10/03/2022

Season 4 Finale- Jeff Montgomery, Detroit's Fierce LGBTQ+ Rights Activist 12/20/2021

Season 4, Episode 9- When The Cold War Seemed Hot: Nike Missiles Around Metro Detroit, And A Nuclear Warhead On Belle Isle 12/06/2021

Season 4, Episode 8- Hammerin' Hank Greenberg, How a Jewish Kid from the Bronx became a Detroit Tiger Great 11/22/2021

Season 4, Episode 7- The 1960s and General Motors: Consumerism Hits The Big Three 11/15/2021

Season 4, Episode 6- No-No Boy and the Japanese-American Migration to Detroit 11/08/2021

Season 4, Episode 5- Vernors, The Nectar of the Gods 10/31/2021

Season 4, Episode 4- Black Bottom: The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise of a Detroit Neighborhood 10/24/2021

Season 4, Episode 3- The Haunting of The Whitney 10/18/2021

Season 4, Episode 2- The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, The Sub-Aquatic Ambassador 10/10/2021

Season 4, Episode 1- The Scene, the Hippest Detroit TV show of the 70s and 80s 10/03/2021

Special Edition- The Polio Outbreak 05/14/2021

Season 3 Finale- The Deindustrialization of Detroit 08/03/2020

Season 3, Episode 9- Lottie The Body, The Burlesque Queen of Detroit 07/27/2020

Season 3, Episode 8- Birds of a Feather- Bowling, Belgians, Beer, Pigeons, and the Cadieux Cafe 07/20/2020

Season 3, Episode 7- The Politics of Fear 07/13/2020

Season 3, Episode 6- The Evangelista Occult Murders 07/06/2020

Season 3, Episode 5- Far from New Orleans, Long Before Motown, Jazz Became Detroit's Pulse 06/22/2020

Season 3, Episode 4- They Sat Down and Rocked The Boat: Walter Reuther's Blue-Collar Revolution 06/15/2020