The History Hour Episodes Available now
The assassination of Medgar Evers
An American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and the psychoanalyst CG Jung
The first anti-psychotic drug
A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.
D-Day
Eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, Vikings in England and the Little Prince
Tiananmen Square
Remembering Tiananmen Square, the internet's first social network, and Sesame Street
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
LBGT activism in Uganda, the start of Greenpeace, Bangladesh acid attacks, and dinosaurs.
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
The last battles of a brutal conflict plus how the Nazis stole children.
The war on drugs
US efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, plus the rise of Jack Ma in China.
The Malayan Emergency
Battling a communist insurgency in the 50s, sinking the Belgrano and the "Arctic African"
The al Yamamah arms deals
The controversial Anglo-Saudi deal, South Africa's historic election, the first "Vegan"
The Columbine school shooting
Mass murder in the US, the first play on Broadway by a black woman, and space tourism.
