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Tracing The Path

Tracing The Path

By: Dan R Morris
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Let us tell you the story of the 20th Century, by tracing each event back to the original decisions that shaped it. You'll quickly find out that everybody and everything is connected. If you thought you understood the 20th Century, you're in for a treat. Tracing the Path is inspired by storytellers like Paul Harvey, Charles Kuralt, and Andy Rooney.

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Episodes
  • Episode 65: When Osama Bin Laden Wrinkled FDR's Plans

    Episode 65: When Osama Bin Laden Wrinkled FDR's Plans
    May 27 2025

    This is the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Henrietta Lacks, Jonas Salk, the March of Dimes, the Tuskegee Institute and their collective effort to eradicate polio from the earth. But the story also touches on Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Lewis Adams, the Hampton School, Basil O'Connor, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cantor, Paul Alexander and Osama Bin Laden.

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    35 mins
  • Episode 64: Civil War Sutler's to Bob Hope's USO

    Episode 64: Civil War Sutler's to Bob Hope's USO
    Apr 25 2025

    In today's episode we look at all the people and plans it took to create the United Service Organization (USO). While there was enormous planning and smart people, it wouldn't be what it is without a trumpet player from Chicago. We cross paths with General Pershing, Glenn Miller, m&ms, Thomas Dewey, Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and little guy from England named Lesley Townes Hope.
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    37 mins
  • Episode 63: Classified: How the Library Built the FBI

    Episode 63: Classified: How the Library Built the FBI
    Mar 25 2025

    It all started in the 1500s with Sir Francis Bacon, and then in the 1700s with Carl Linnaeus. And along the way we run into Thomas Jefferson, President McKinley, Melvil Dewey, Elihu Root, Napoleon Bonaparte, Al Capone, Teddy Roosevelt, the Library of Congress, Ainsworth Rand Spofford and J. Edgar Hoover. All of them to birth the FBI.

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    38 mins
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