Tracing The Path: The Connected 20th Century
by Dan R. Morris - 20th Century Historian
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Episode 80: One Step Leads to Another
May 30, 2026
31m 32s
Episode 79: The Conversation: Yeltsin's Grocery Revolution
May 2, 2026
28m 17s
Episode 78: Yeltsin's Grocery Revolution
Apr 30, 2026
40m 26s
Episode 77: The Conversation: World's Best Music
Apr 1, 2026
33m 23s
Episode 76: The World's Most Famous Music
Mar 29, 2026
34m 26s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/30/26 |  Episode 80: One Step Leads to Another✨ | Origin Story20th Century History+4 | — | Austro Hungarian EmpireUniversity of Nebraska+1 | Auschwitz | Yuri AndropovMark Twain+5 | — | 31m 32s | |
| 5/2/26 |  Episode 79: The Conversation: Yeltsin's Grocery Revolution✨ | grocery storeshistory of retail+4 | — | WalgreensA&P | Romania | grocery storesYeltsin+5 | — | 28m 17s | |
| 4/30/26 |  Episode 78: Yeltsin's Grocery Revolution✨ | Boris YeltsinGrocery Revolution+3 | — | IBMSpectra-Physics+1 | Webster TexasUnited States+1 | Boris Yeltsingrocery store+4 | — | 40m 26s | |
| 4/1/26 |  Episode 77: The Conversation: World's Best Music✨ | musicfamous tunes+3 | Rachel | Twinkle TwinkleHappy Birthday+1 | — | world's best musicfamous songs+3 | — | 33m 23s | |
| 3/29/26 |  Episode 76: The World's Most Famous Music✨ | music historyfamous composers+4 | — | Peer Gynt | — | famous musicThomas Edison+5 | — | 34m 26s | |
| 3/11/26 |  Episode 75: The Conversation: The Real Forrest Gump✨ | Forrest Gumphistorical stories+3 | Rachel | The Real Forrest Gump | — | Forrest GumpJosh Norton+3 | — | 24m 15s | |
| 3/1/26 |  Episode 74: The Real Life Forrest Gump✨ | 19th century historyaccidental hero+5 | — | — | — | Forrest Gump19th century+5 | — | 39m 24s | |
| 1/30/26 |  Episode 73: The Gilded Age: First March on Washington D.C.✨ | Gilded AgeMarch on Washington+4 | — | Pullman PortersStatue of Liberty | Washington D.C.Ferris Wheel | Gilded AgeJacob Coxey+7 | — | 36m 26s | |
| 12/28/25 |  Episode 72: The Invention of Hello✨ | language evolutioncommunication+3 | — | PhonographWestern Union+1 | — | Hellocommunication+6 | — | 28m 05s | |
| 11/24/25 |  Episode 71: The Amana Utopia and Patriot Missile✨ | communismcapitalism+3 | — | microwave popcornQuaker Oatmeal+2 | Amana Colonies | Amana ColoniesPatriot Missile+5 | — | 27m 11s | |
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| 10/24/25 |  Episode 70: Who Knows The Truth? Does A.I.?✨ | truthartificial intelligence+5 | — | Frye Vs The United StatesIBM+1 | — | truthartificial intelligence+7 | — | 31m 23s | |
| 9/29/25 |  Episode 69: Status Symbol for Rent✨ | status symbolshistory+3 | — | — | Silk Road | status symbolSilk Road+3 | — | 33m 59s | |
| 8/22/25 |  Episode 68: Hello Darkness My New Friend - The Story of The Family Who Created Sonar and Braille✨ | sonarBraille+4 | — | Marvel ComicsPopular Science Magazine | — | sonarBraille+6 | — | 29m 26s | |
| 7/28/25 |  Episode 67: How a Coffee Shop Changed the World: The Origin Story of Lloyds of London | This is the story of Edward Lloyd and his London Coffee Shop . . . and how they were able to change the world. Amazingly this story touches on the New York Stock Exchange, Bruce Springsteen, George Lucas, Lorenzo de Tonti, the Origin of the Tontine, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyds of London and Rosa Parks. Be prepared to be amazed. | 28m 21s | ||||||
| 6/27/25 |  Episode 66: The America of Tarzan and Buck vs Bell | The 1890 closing of the Frontier by the US Census Bureau is a major milestone in the history of the United States. The outcome of that change affected the mindset of the Americans. . . and from that comes some of our most loved fiction. But on the flip side, also the darkest stain on the United States. In this episode we cross paths with Thomas Jefferson, Johnny Weissmuller, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.G. Wells, Frank Munsey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the Great Chicago Fire, and Davy Crockett | 36m 03s | ||||||
| 5/27/25 |  Episode 65: When Osama Bin Laden Wrinkled FDR's Plans: The 100 Year Fight Against Polio | 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. | 35m 28s | ||||||
| 4/25/25 |  Episode 64: How did Bob Hope's USO become a thing? And who performed? | 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. | 37m 25s | ||||||
| 3/25/25 |  Episode 63: Classified: How the Library Built the FBI and How did J. Edgar Hoover Get Involved? | 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. | 38m 18s | ||||||
| 2/26/25 |  Episode 62: The Cheesy Results of WW II: Plus the Story of How Nachos Came to Be | One of the greatest products of World War II was "cheesy". And it's all Wisconsin's fault. In fact it's possible that without WW2 three of the greatest things in your daily life just wouldn't be there. In today's episode we cross paths with FDR, Ricos Nachos, Jean Nicolet, Cheetos, Fritos, Kraft, and would you believe . . . Care Packages. | 33m 02s | ||||||
| 1/21/25 |  Episode 61: Every Episode Has 4 | This is episode 61, the end of the first era and beginning of the second. In fielding your hundreds of ideas for shows, we decided to go over the 4 actual requirement that every story must have before becoming an episode of Tracing The Path. We look at old episodes and how they meet the requirements. We go over some unbelievable stories that haven't quite made it yet and preview what's in the works. Stay tuned. | 31m 52s | ||||||
| 12/18/24 |  Episode 60: The Secret World of Roald Dahl (A Real Chocolate Spy) | The fact that our most beloved children's author was a spy for the British isn't the twist. The twist comes when his greatest enemy becomes an important advisor. Along the way we run into Ian Fleming, FDR, Cadbury, Quaker Oats, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Beatrix Potter, the Sopwith Camel Ace Flyer and C.S. Forrester | 32m 11s | ||||||
| 11/22/24 |  Episode 59: The True Story of Candy Canes and How They Became a Christmas Tradition | Did you know that if it weren't for the Mexicans and the Swedes, our Christmas would look substantially different? Yep, today we trace the world of Peppermint back to Santa Anna, Bob, Amalia Erickson, William Wrigley, the American Chicle Company, the Erie Canal, some French cellophane and maybe even Elvis | 34m 40s | ||||||
| 10/23/24 |  Episode 58: The Cultural Impact of Don McLean's "American Pie" (and the part Roberta Flack played) | The "American Dream" was first coined in 1931. In 1971 two things happened on exactly the same day . . . the world's biggest song was released lamenting the end of the American Dream. And the world's biggest dreamer opened the most amazing American institution. In today's episode we cross paths with Apple Pie, James Truslow Adams, Buddy Holly, Billy McGuigan, Pat Hazell, Don McLean, Roberta Flack, Richard Valenzuela, Johnny Appleseed and Walt Disney among others. | 32m 12s | ||||||
| 9/26/24 |  Episode 57: 1848: The Year Halloween Began and How it Started | Have you ever heard the origin of Halloween? Perhaps you've heard about the Irish holiday Samhain, but there's more. And all of it converges on one year, 1848. In this episode learn about Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, the most powerful volcano ever recorded, Yellow Fever, premature burial, Galvanism, John William Polidori and vampires. You're about to hear the true origin of Halloween. | 33m 25s | ||||||
| 8/24/24 |  Episode 56: The Amazing Story of Van Diemen's Land and the U.S. Presidential Resolute Desk | The Resolute Desk was a gift to the President as the movie National Treasure says. But did you know it involved Tasmania, Van Diemen's Land, Explorer John Franklin, Maritime Salvage Laws, Senator Lawrence S Foster, Abel Tasman, Anthony Van Diemen, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the HMS Resolute, Sweden's 300,000 oak trees, Rutherford B Hayes and Harry Truman. | 23m 38s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
1 placement across 1 market.