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The Thread
Explore history's interlocking lives and events. Turn back the clock, one story at a time. Discover how various strands are woven together to create a historic figure, a big idea or an unthinkable tragedy. From OZY Media. History. Unwound.
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59 EpisodenIntroducing The Future of X: Mobility
Everybody loves to move. How we choose to move will determine what life looks like for the next generation. OZY’s hit podcast franchise The Future of...
Introducing The Future of X: Farming
Ever look down at your plate of food and wonder where the ingredients came from? OZY’s hit podcast franchise The Future of X is back, and this season...
Special Series: The Election Day Massacre, Part 3
After the horrific violence of Election Day, 1920, in Ocoee, Florida, hundreds of Black families fled the town, never to return. White farmers took ow...
Special Series: The Election Day Massacre, Part 2
Before the presidential election of 1920, the Klan marched through Florida to warn Black citizens not to vote. Newspapers across the state issued the...
Special Series: The Election Day Massacre, Part 1
The worst incident of election violence in American history happened a century ago on Election Day, 1920 in the town of Ocoee, Florida.
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Introducing: 'The Food That Built America'
Sean is back with a brand new show. The Food That Built America, a new podcast from OZY and The HISTORY® Channel based on the hit documentary series f...
The Election Day Massacre: 3 Part Special Series Promo
A new OZY miniseries about the worst day of election violence in American history.
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REPLAY: ‘I Will Be Heard'
In light of the unfolding situation and unrest across America—and the debate about the use and effectiveness of non-violent and violent means of prote...
REPLAY: The Transformation of Leo Tolstoy
In light of the unfolding situation and unrest across America—and the debate about the use and effectiveness of non-violent and violent means of prote...
REPLAY: Turning Enemies Into Friends
In light of the unfolding situation and unrest across America—and the debate about the use and effectiveness of non-violent and violent means of prote...
REPLAY: An Angelic Troublemaker
In light of the unfolding situation and unrest across America—and the debate about the use and effectiveness of non-violent and violent means of prote...
REPLAY: The Pride and The Power
In light of the unfolding situation and unrest across America—and the debate about the use and effectiveness of non-violent and violent means of prote...
Flashback: Episode 5 "High Hitler" (Sneak Peek)
From the minds behind The Thread, Flashback is a series of stories of unintended consequences, disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas, crazy coinc...
Flashback: Episode 4 "The Jordan Effect" (Sneak Peek)
From the minds behind The Thread, Flashback is a series of stories of unintended consequences, disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas, crazy coinc...
Flashback: Episode 3 "AC/DC" (Sneak Peek)
From the minds behind The Thread, Flashback is a series of stories of unintended consequences, disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas, crazy coinc...
Flashback: Episode 2 "Holy Smokes" (Sneak Peek)
From the minds behind The Thread, Flashback is a series of stories of unintended consequences, disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas, crazy coinc...
Flashback: Episode 1 "McVeigh’s Mentor" (Sneak Peek)
Enjoy a preview of our first episode of Flashback. From the minds behind The Thread, Flashback is a series of stories of unintended consequences, disa...
(Extended Trailer) Flashback: Isaac Newton’s ‘Year of Wonders’
Each of us handles social distancing in our own way. Some are doing virtual yoga classes. Others are turning to art. And then there are those truly ra...
Introducing: Flashback
Sean's back with a brand new show. Flashback is a series of stories of unintended consequences, disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas, crazy coin...
Bonus Episode: The Forgotten Giant of Women’s Basketball
Nera White dominated her sport for 15 years, and even beat the Soviets at the height of the Cold War. But you’ve probably never heard of the Michael J...
Successful But Not Equal
Thanks to Title IX and the trailblazing women behind it, the U.S. has now dominated women’s soccer for almost three decades. The national team has won...
The Civil Rights Pioneer That History Forgot
The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray was a pioneering civil rights attorney and a co-founder of the National Organization for Women. She helped draw attention to...
Too Strong for a Woman
After learning she had not been considered for any of the teaching openings in her college department and that she came on “too strong for a woman,” B...
These Are the Bodies
More than 23 years before Brandi Chastain took off her jersey, the women of the Yale women's crew team were taking off more than theirs. In March 1976...
A Team of Their Own
In the summer of 1985, the first U.S. women’s national soccer team made their debut in Italy. The ragtag group, cobbled together in less than a week a...
Ours to Win
When Brandi Chastain ripped off her jersey after scoring the winning penalty kick in the 1999 Women's World Cup Final, her iconic celebration marked t...
Season Five Trailer: Let Us Play
When Brandi Chastain ripped off her jersey after scoring the winning penalty in the 1999 Women's World Cup Final, her now iconic goal celebration mark...
Bonus Episode: A Tale of Two Killers
What is it about The Catcher in the Rye that prompted two of the world’s most infamous assassination attempts? In Season 4 of The Thread we saw how th...
An Insane Defense?
The 2015 conviction of Aurora gunman James Holmes really begins almost two centuries earlier in England, with the attempted assassination of the king....
[FIXED] A Star-Spangled Murder
---Note from OZY-- Hi everyone, Thread team here. Thank you for listening! We fixed the error but — due to the nature of auto-download for subscribers...
America's Pet Murderer
It was a grand time to be a rich New Yorker. The wealthy architect Stanford White was responsible for designing several iconic public, institutional a...
“The Greatest Love Offering in the History of the World"
In 1981, on his way to look for the actress Jodi Foster at Yale, where he had been stalking her, John Hinckley Jr. stopped off in Washington, D.C., an...
An Irresistible Impulse
The ultimate act of revenge or the act of a woman driven so crazy by domestic violence that she could not comprehend what she was doing? It seemed cra...
Insights Into The Mind of Madness
Shortly after midnight on July 20, 2012, in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight R...
Season Four Trailer: By Way of Insanity
This season of The Thread, from the trial of James Hadfield in 1800 to the trial of Aurora gunman James Holmes over two centuries later, we explore si...
Bonus Episode: From King to Kaepernick
Would Martin Luther King, Jr. have taken a knee alongside Colin Kaepernick? Is there any precedent for the protests being waged by high school student...
The Soul Force
In the final episode of this season, we trace the path of the revolutionary idea that spread across the globe to become the dominant form of political...
‘I Will Be Heard'
William Lloyd Garrison, one of the leading figures of the early abolitionist movement in America, was a major influence on Leo Tolstoy. Garrison belie...
The Transformation of Leo Tolstoy
Just before his death in 1910, the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy struck up a correspondence with a young lawyer in South Africa named Mohandas Gandhi,...
Turning Enemies Into Friends
The Indian lawyer and activist Mohandas Gandhi was the first leader to take up the age-old doctrines of love and nonviolence and transform them into t...