For Historys Sake Podcast

In 1914, a doctor noticed something nobody else had bothered to ask: why weren't the staff getting sick? This episode is about pellagra — a disease that killed an estimated 100,000 Americans and devastated the post-Civil War South. The medical establis...

In January 1968, a sports writer named Stanley Frank published an article in True magazine questioning whether cigarettes were really that dangerous. Readers had no idea Frank was on the tobacco industry's payroll — or that Brown and Williamson had edi...