History

The past as told by people who dug into it themselves. The show’s history episodes run from the ancient world to terrorism for hire, and they favor guests with a book, an expedition or an archive behind them.

Joby Warrick sat across from Carlos the Jackal for his book The Jackal and walks through the life of the man he calls the world’s first super-terrorist, from the Vienna attack to a face-to-face interview with a man who shows no remorse. Sabbatical comes on for the Aztecs, a dark discovery in Argentina and a story of imprisonment in Russia. Randall Carlson, the researcher of ancient catastrophes, has made the case for a lost civilization and the evidence he says supports it. Ancient history, modern terrorism and the stories that fell out of the textbooks all sit here.