Drunk History

Montgomery, AL

Scientist Percy Julian overcomes racial barriers, Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Pa

New York City

The U.S. reluctantly accepts the Statue of Liberty, Sybil Ludington goes on an epic ride to warn of a British attack, an

American Music

Alan Freed becomes one of the first radio DJs to broadcast rock 'n' roll, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with som

Baltimore

Abraham Lincoln tries to avoid assassination on the way to his inauguration, Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled

Charleston

Charles Sumner gets caned on the Senate floor, Judge J. Waties Waring helps to end segregation, and a slave named Robert

Hollywood

Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" angers publisher William Randolph Hearst; animator Ub Iwerks helps Walt Disney create Micke

Hawaii

Philadelphia

Baron von Steuben whips Washington's army into shape, longtime friends John Adams and Thomas Jefferson break ties, and B

Sports Heroes

Jim Thorpe dominates the 1912 Olympics, Babe Didrikson founds the LPGA, and Jim Abbott becomes a great pitcher despite b

First Ladies

Frances Cleveland uses her public image for good, Edith Wilson acts as president after her husband has a stroke, and Dol

New Jersey

Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become bitter rivals while creating Paleontology and Penzias & Wilson discover the sound o

Miami

Actor Clark Gable joins the U.S Air Force during World War II, Ponce de León quarrels with Diego Colón (son of Christo

New Orleans

Pirate Jean Laffite helps Andrew Jackson defeat the British during the War of 1812, Sam Zemurray becomes a banana kingpi

Spies

Harriet Tubman provides military intel to the Union Army, Virginia Hall spies in France during World War II (and becomes

Cleveland

Wayne Wheeler leads the Prohibition charge, Dorothy Fuldheim paves the way for women in journalism, and Muhammad Ali ref

Games

Milton Bradley jumpstarts the board game industry, Roger Sharpe fights for pinball legalization in 1970s New York City,

Oklahoma

Kentucky Daisy claims land for the ladies, Gordon Cooper goes on a pioneering space mission, and former slave Bass Reeve

Journalism

Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland race each other around the world, New York's newsboys go on strike, and a political car

Los Angeles

The LAPD is formed to stop the city from devolving into chaos, Rin Tin Tin becomes a global superstar, and William Mulho

New Mexico

Popé leads the Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonizers in 1680, Boy Scouts cofounder Ernest Thompson Seton tracks a wo

Inventors

Alexander Graham Bell beats Elisha Gray to the patent office for the telephone, Thomas Edison endeavors to launch a film

Las Vegas

Bugsy Siegel bets his life on a Las Vegas casino, while the Moulin Rouge breaks the color barrier, Sin City's origins ar

Space

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love over a golden record, Wernher Von Braun pioneers rocket science, and Alexey Leono

Great Escapes

LSD pioneer Timothy Leary escapes from prison; a sailor travels to Devil's Island to perform a daring rescue; a baker's

Legends

Sam Patch becomes America's first daredevil; Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald form a lasting friendship; Buster Keaton

Bar Fights

Carry A. Nation vandalizes bars; Andrew Jackson gets involved in a shootout; Marsha P. Johnson stands up for LGBT rights

The Roosevelts

Teddy Roosevelt revolutionizes football; Winston Churchill pays FDR a visit at Christmastime; Eleanor Roosevelt becomes

Scoundrels

Charles Ponzi hires a publicist to improve his image; Sadie the Goat becomes a notorious Hudson River pirate; a con man

Siblings

Katharine Wright helps her brothers build an airplane; the Kopp sisters fight to protect their home; the Fox sisters sto

Landmarks

Emily Roebling oversees construction of the Brooklyn Bridge; con-man Victor Lustig sells the Eiffel Tower; Shakespeare s

Food

Mayor La Guardia fights the mob over artichokes; Julia Child meets the love of her life while working as a spy; a molass

Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, his nemesis Aaron Burr and their infamous duel to the death.

Shitshows

Heroines

Deborah Sampson goes undercover as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War, Rose Valland rescues art from the Nazis, and

Dangerous Minds

Occultist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons works on his "sex magick," W.C. Minor helps write the Oxford English Diction

Game Changers

Hip hop is born in 1970s New York City, Berry Gordy founds the massively influential Motown Records, and Nichelle Nichol

Sex

Margaret Sanger is a pioneering advocate for birth control, the Kinseys create a scale for sexuality, and journalist Glo

Civil Rights

British suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu, Gwendolyn Sanders ignites the Birmingham Crusade, and Judy Heumann leads a sit-in

Underdogs

Fred Rogers fights for public television in front of Congress, journalist Ida Tarbell takes on John D. Rockefeller, and

Drunk Mystery

Mystery writer Agatha Christie vanishes, a man known as D.B. Cooper successfully hijacks a plane, and a series of anonym

World War II

A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment c

Heists

An Italian handyman steals the “Mona Lisa,” the “Santa bandits” rob a bank in Texas, and Mossad agents capture a

Animals

A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and a horse that can solve math problems

The Middle Ages

Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War, Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power, AND Mansa Musa br

Death

Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers, a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Li

Halloween

A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town, one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween, and Vlad the I

Are You Afraid of the Drunk?

Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, “F

National Parks

John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Ever

Baseball

Moses Fleetwood Walker faces racism in the 19th century MLB, the Chicago White Sox throw the World Series, and the Calla

Trailblazers

Bessie Coleman is America’s first black woman pilot, and the students of the Little Rock Nine integrate a high school

Love

A student tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall, Edie Windsor topples the Defense of Marriage Act, and John Wojtowicz robs a b

Drugs

John F. Kennedy’s doctor administers him meth for his back pain, and Dr. John C. Lilly takes LSD while studying the in

Femme Fatales

Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins writes a play about Chicago’s infamous Murderesses’ Row, and Mata Hari goes from e

Drunk Mystery II

Colonial gossip columnist James Callender winds up dead, a Hollywood producer dies on a celebrity-filled yacht, and Ken

Believe It Or Not

Larry Walters pilots a balloon-suspended lawn chair, Phineas Gage survives an iron rod to the brain, and the Greenbrier

Legacies

Lead Belly records songs with John Lomax that change the face of music, John Lennon and Yoko Ono almost get deported, an

Fame

Hedy Lamarr designs the first modern airplane wing, Eartha Kitt's activism provokes the ire of Lady Bird Johnson, and Al

Good Samaritans

Forest service ranger Ed Pulaski saves 40 men from a forest fire, and Ted Patrick rescues teenagers from the psychologic

Whistleblowers

Martha Mitchell leaks the Watergate scandal to the press before Deep Throat does, and the Citizens’ Commission to Inve

Behind Enemy Lines

Marina Raskova forms an all-women air force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II, and smuggler James J. Andrews hijac

S.O.S.

Navy officer Douglas Hegdahl outwits his captors when he’s taken as a POW in North Vietnam, and Florence Nightingale r

Bad Blood

Mary Mallon spreads typhoid fever wherever she goes, and Cleopatra’s younger sister Arsinoe schemes her way in and out