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                  -             Sidedoor Podcast  Face Value         Follow the money to see behind-the-scenes in the process of minting twenty new quarters featuring American women from history.         Sidedoor Podcast  Til Death Do Us Part?         Listen to some of Japanese theater’s most popular tales of scorned lovers seeking vengeance from beyond the grave.         Sidedoor Podcast  To Sidedoor, With Love          The *Sidedoor* team runs all around the Smithsonian to answer from a grab bag of listeners' questions.         Sidedoor Podcast  Tails of Bravery         Listen to tales of animals that joined their human companions on the battlefield.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Milkmaid Spy         Virginia Hall dreamed of being America’s first woman ambassador. Instead, she became a spy.         Sidedoor Podcast  Auld Lang What?         Learn what "auld lang syne” really means and how it's connected to Charlie Chaplin.         Sidedoor Podcast  Wrinkled Radicals         Hear about the U.S. movement against ageism started by Maggie Kuhn in the 1970s.         Sidedoor Podcast  Resurrected: Spooked at the Smithsonian         The Smithsonian is home to countless tales of unexplained phenomena and—dare we say—ghost sightings.         Sidedoor Podcast  CSI: Southern Pacific         Re-examine evidence from "The Last Great Train Robbery" to find out how U.S. Postal Inspectors tracked down a band of old-school outlaws.         Sidedoor Podcast  The 'Gentle Anarchy' of the Muppets         Conserving the history of Jim Henson's Muppets.          Sidedoor Podcast  The Toxic Book of Faces         Explore the history of portraiture in America and a poisonous mystery.          Sidedoor Podcast  Building a Movement         A history of the environmental justice movement from the farmlands of North Carolina to a watershed moment in the nation's capital.         Sidedoor Podcast  Recording the World         In 75 years, Folkways Recordings has grown into one of the world’s most eclectic, iconic, and largest repositories of recorded sound.          Sidedoor Podcast  Get Off My Lawn         Dig into the history of America's love of lawns to learn where the concept came from...and how we grew so obsessed.          Sidedoor Podcast  Bill Nye the Sidedoor Guy          We sit down with Bill Nye to get schooled on science education and comedy.         Sidedoor Podcast  Space Marathon         A look at the women who blazed the trail allowing for competition in marathons.          Sidedoor Podcast  The Phantom Violins         Learn a tale of subterfuge, scandal, and the Smithsonian’s first donation of rare instruments.         Sidedoor Podcast  A Very Merry Sidedoor*Sidedoor*tracks down the origins of some puzzling Christmastime traditions.         Sidedoor Podcast  Lucy Hicks Anderson         When her gender was put on trial in the 1940s, her case made her one the first documented Black transgender figures in American history.         Sidedoor Podcast  Reservation Math: Navigating Love in Native America         Explore the concept of blood quantum and how it continues to impact Native Americans today.          Sidedoor Podcast  Wronging the Wrights         On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright made history when he flew more than 800 feet across a blustery beach in North Carolina.          Sidedoor Podcast  Who Built the White House?         Historians take a years-long journey to determine who the enslaved African Americans were who built the White House.         Sidedoor Podcast  Culture in Crisis         Learn how the Smithsonian helps protect the world's cultural treasures in times of war and natural disaster.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Hungerford Deed          A 200-year-old legal document changes what we know about the founding of the Smithsonian.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Many Inventions of Beatrice Kenner          Learn more about one of the most prolific African American inventors of the mid 20th century.         Sidedoor Podcast  Broad Stripes, Bright Stars, and White Lies         Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. At least that's what we were taught in school.         Sidedoor Podcast  Take Who Out to the Ball Game?         A long-forgotten lyric reveals a feminist message buried within a favorite song.         Sidedoor Podcast  Raven and the Box of Daylight         Hear the origin story of the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest passed down since time immemorial.         Sidedoor Podcast  King's Speech*Sidedoor* traces the evolution of King's dream, from a secret friendship to an experimental poem to the speech we all know today.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Robot in the Mirror         Artificial intelligence is built on human intelligence. Meet a very special robot who asks us to consider: whose image will be reflected in our AI future?         Sidedoor Podcast  The Fugitive Brewer         Retrace the steps of an enslaved African American woman who fled to freedom in 1808 and made a life for herself brewing beer.         Sidedoor Podcast  Edison's Demon Dolls         Hear a short story that imagines what happens when two little girls receive one of Edison’s talking dolls as a holiday gift.         Sidedoor Podcast  Light of Freedom         Artist Abigail DeVille has reimagined the Statue of Liberty’s torch to shine a light on historical contradictions of American freedom.         Sidedoor Podcast  Olympic Bonus: Shredding Skateboarding’s Glass Ceiling         When Mimi Knoop entered her first skateboarding competition, she never anticipated leaving her mark on the sport forever.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Battle of Blair Mountain         More than 100 years ago, a diverse group of coal miners banded together to demand better pay and safer working conditions.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Goddess of Broadway         The first Puerto Rican performer to tread the boards on Broadway, Diosa Costello was fearless, funny, and brimming with talent.         Sidedoor Podcast  Confronting the Past         Learn the story of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 that destroyed almost 40 blocks of a wealthy black neighborhood.         Sidedoor Podcast  On The Money         Join the *Sidedoor* team to learn who’s on our money, and how they got there.         Sidedoor Podcast  Lena Richard: America's Unknown Celebrity Chef         When Richard cooked her first chicken on television, she beat Julia Child to the screen by over a decade.         Sidedoor Podcast  A Very Cold Case         This epic frozen whodunit, features a shipwreck, romance, and a social media darling with a dark secret.         Sidedoor Podcast  Sing a Song of Protest         As an up-and-coming young blues singer in the 1950s, Barbara Dane faced a choice: fame and fortune, or her principles.         Sidedoor Podcast  How Wonder Woman Got Her Groove Back         It took a feminist magazine cover to catapult Wonder Woman from comic book character to the icon.         Sidedoor Podcast  Dress Coded         Dress codes have been around a long time—from the old days of long skirts and bloomers to today’s regulation-length shorts.         Sidedoor Podcast  Appalachia Goes Beijing         Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei make a new brand of folk music that combines the tones of Appalachia with the melodies of China.         Sidedoor Podcast  Votes for Hawaiians         Learn how women’s suffrage came to Hawai‘i—and what was taken from Hawaiians to get there.         Sidedoor Podcast  Apollo 12's Really Close Call         Hear the often-overlooked story of Apollo 12, one full of danger, discovery, and the power of friendship.         Sidedoor Podcast  Young Harriet         In 2017, a photograph of a young Harriet Tubman surfaced that had been lost to history for more than a century. How does it change how we see her?         Sidedoor Podcast  The Last Man Who Knew It All         You may not know his name, but Alexander von Humboldt inspired a key part of America’s national identity through science and art.         Sidedoor Podcast  Outer Space & Underwear         Learn how lingerie, and the expert seamstresses who sewed it, played a critical role in the first well-supported steps on the moon.         Sidedoor Podcast  Ponzi's Scheme         Meet the man behind the Ponzi Scheme, and hear from a postal investigator trained to catch swindlers who use the U.S. mail for nefarious purposes.         Sidedoor Podcast  Adam Rippon's Olympic Mesh-capades         When Adam Rippon stood on the Olympic podium in 2018, he was sure about his next steps.         Sidedoor Podcast  Dynamite!         Explore the less common uses of dynamite: the artistic blasting at Mount Rushmore, and how anarchists used dynamite to advance their political agenda in 1886.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Dinosaur War         Behind the fossilized teeth, bones, and claws displayed in the National Museum of Natural History’s new Fossil Hall is the story of two men and a nasty feud.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Woman in the Frame         National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet discusses four First Ladies and their portraits.         Sidedoor Podcast  Things You’d Never Tell Your Parents         Meet Regie Cabico, who has been called the Lady Gaga of spoken word poetry and hear poetic cooking tips from the annals of American history.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Worst Video Game Ever?         Deep within the National Museum of American History’s vaults is a battered Atari case.         Sidedoor Podcast  Aloha, Y'all         Learn how the steel guitar helped Hawaiians preserve their culture and change American popular music.         Sidedoor Podcast  Good as Gold         Glittering treasures, gleaming coins, and eye-catching jewelry...gold can be all of these things, but in some parts of the world it's also an enduring link to the past.         Sidedoor Podcast  Abraham Lincoln: Prankster-in-Chief          Behind the face on the penny lies an unlikely jokester, hear about the other side of our 16th president.         Sidedoor Podcast  Singing the Gender-Bending Blues         Gladys Bentley, a blues singing trailblazer, was unapologetically herself.         Sidedoor Podcast  Inventor, Photographer ... Murderer         Meet Muybridge, a pioneering and eccentric photographer from the 1800s whose work paved the way for the invention of motion pictures.         Sidedoor Podcast  That Brunch in the Forest         How much of what you think you know about Thanksgiving may be more fiction than fact?         Sidedoor Podcast  Slavery, Freedom, & Grandma’s House         What if you found out that your grandmother's house was going on display at a museum?         Sidedoor Podcast  A Right to the City         Learn more about gentrification through a conversation with Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum.  The Mystery Bones of Witch Hill         Grab your Scooby Snacks and join *Sidedoor* as we journey to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama to hear about unusual bones found on a dig of “Witch Hill.”         Sidedoor Podcast  The Curse of the Hope Diamond         We track the lore of this notorious gem through the centuries.         Sidedoor Podcast  Cherokee Story Slam         Explore the power stories hold to keep people connected to their culture across time and geographic distance.         Sidedoor Podcast  Murder Is Her Hobby         Frances Glessner Lee revolutionized the male-dominated world of crime scene investigation in the 19th century.         Sidedoor Podcast  Discovering the World's Oldest Winery         Crawl with *Sidedoor* into into a deep, dark cave in search of long-lost wine.          Sidedoor Podcast  America’s First Food Spy         Meet the food spies—globe-trotting scientists and explorers of the 19th-century who sought exotic crops to enhance America’s diet and help grow the economy.         Sidedoor Podcast  Enslaved and Muslim in Early America         In the late 1700s Muslim Americans made up about five percent of the country's population. Where did they go, and why didn’t we all learn about them in school?         Sidedoor Podcast  The Many Lives of Owney the Dog         One hundred and twenty years ago, Owney was a global celebrity famous for simply riding trains with the U.S. mail.         Sidedoor Podcast  This One’s for Dilla         In this *Sidedoor*episode, we’re telling the story of J Dilla’s life and legacy through those that knew him best.         Sidedoor Podcast  Live! Cookin' Up Stories         A live episode that explores how food can be a powerful storytelling tool and can transform a dining experience into a cultural, historical, or educational adventure.         Sidedoor Podcast  Grandma Turned Me into a Ghost         Writer Anelise Chen discusses the ways in which our families shape our personal and cultural identities, for better or worse.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Man Who Defied Gravity         Lear about Paul Cinquevalli, one of the most famous and thrilling entertainers in the world in the late 1800s; tales of his juggling and balancing exploits spanned continents.         Sidedoor Podcast  Live! Unintended  Consequences         Learn tales of small things that snowballed and had outsized impacts on history, art, and culture.         Sidedoor Podcast  The Art of War         In this episode of *Sidedoor*, listen to stories of artists whose work has helped reveal the human side of war.          Sidedoor Podcast  Red, White, and Brew         Meet the Smithsonian's brewing historian and a new wave of brewers who are working to craft some flavorful history of their own.           Sidedoor Podcast  Shake It Up         A grab bag of stories from the Smithsonian *Sidedoor* team.         Sidedoor Podcast  You Do You         A grab bag of stories from the Smithsonian *Sidedoor* team.         Sidedoor Podcast  Gaming the System         A grab bag of stories from the Smithsonian *Sidedoor* team.         Sidedoor Podcast  Masters of Disguise         A grab bag of stories from the Smithsonian *Sidedoor* team.         Sidedoor Podcast  Special Delivery         The payoff is all in the delivery: missile mail, orangutan pregnancy, and landing a joke.  Sidedoor- Season 10
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