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Hometown History
Shane Waters
176 episodes
4 hours ago
Every hometown has a story worth preserving—and most have been forgotten. Hometown History uncovers the overlooked events, mysteries, and tragedies from small-town America that never made it into the textbooks. Meticulous research meets respectful storytelling in 20-minute episodes perfect for your morning coffee. From deadly disasters to hidden triumphs, each week explores a different community's untold chapter. No sensationalism. No filler. Just the surprising, forgotten stories that shaped the America we know today. For curious minds who believe history is happening everywhere—not just in the big cities.
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Every hometown has a story worth preserving—and most have been forgotten. Hometown History uncovers the overlooked events, mysteries, and tragedies from small-town America that never made it into the textbooks. Meticulous research meets respectful storytelling in 20-minute episodes perfect for your morning coffee. From deadly disasters to hidden triumphs, each week explores a different community's untold chapter. No sensationalism. No filler. Just the surprising, forgotten stories that shaped the America we know today. For curious minds who believe history is happening everywhere—not just in the big cities.
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History
Society & Culture,
True Crime
Episodes (20/176)
Hometown History
Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created the FBI
4 hours ago
22 minutes

Hometown History
Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's Disease Colony
1 week ago
22 minutes

Hometown History
Africatown, Alabama: The Last Slave Ship and the Town Built by Survivors
2 weeks ago
29 minutes

Hometown History
Exeter, Rhode Island: America's Last Vampire Exhumation
1 month ago
10 minutes

Hometown History
Ottawa, Illinois: The Radium Girls' Fight for Justice
2 months ago
17 minutes

Hometown History
Wahpeton, North Dakota: When Lightning Struck the Circus in 1897
3 months ago
35 minutes

Hometown History
Hickory, North Carolina: The 54-Hour Polio Hospital Miracle of 1944
4 months ago
55 minutes

Hometown History
How Wabash, Indiana Saved Its Main Street
4 months ago
41 minutes

Hometown History
American Nursing: How a Profession Was Born from War and Reform
4 months ago
9 minutes

Hometown History
The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale's War on Death
5 months ago
9 minutes

Hometown History
London: The Dark Origins of Nursing
5 months ago
18 minutes

Hometown History
West Virginia: The Vanishing of the Sodder Children
7 months ago
13 minutes

Hometown History
The American West: The Bone Wars of the 1870s
9 months ago
15 minutes

Hometown History
Hollywood's Cursed Film: The Rebel Without a Cause Tragedy
9 months ago
15 minutes

Hometown History
Moscow, Idaho: Psychiana and America's Mail-Order Religion Movement
10 months ago
15 minutes

Hometown History
New York's Greatest Mystery: Judge Crater's Vanishing
11 months ago
14 minutes

Hometown History
How a Telegraph Cable Launched Tiffany & Co. to Fame
1 year ago
15 minutes

Hometown History
Indiana's Ambrose Bierce: The Writer Who Vanished in Mexico, 1913
1 year ago
13 minutes

Hometown History
White Sulphur Springs: Project Greek Island's Secret Congressional Bunker
1 year ago
14 minutes

Hometown History
San Francisco's Great Diamond Hoax of 1872
1 year ago
15 minutes

Hometown History
Every hometown has a story worth preserving—and most have been forgotten. Hometown History uncovers the overlooked events, mysteries, and tragedies from small-town America that never made it into the textbooks. Meticulous research meets respectful storytelling in 20-minute episodes perfect for your morning coffee. From deadly disasters to hidden triumphs, each week explores a different community's untold chapter. No sensationalism. No filler. Just the surprising, forgotten stories that shaped the America we know today. For curious minds who believe history is happening everywhere—not just in the big cities.