In this episode, I sit down with historian Dr. Megan Wooley to explore the women who showed up in medieval courtrooms anyway. Mothers who accused their sons’ killers. Sisters who tried to seek justice for their brothers.

The United States is fraught with disputes over labor pay. Dr. Bob Bussel's latest work explores the way our conversations have evolved to discuss how we all deserve to be paid.

The "no good" scoundrel Bill Dowdle met an untimely fate after getting out of a Boise prison. Now, Professor Justin Vipperman is here to explain whether the man deserved the reputation.

When did the concept of being an environmentalist become controversial? The working class at one point was leading the charge alongside unions across the United States.

As Professor Steven Beda explains in this Story Your City Forgot, it can in part be traced back to the debate over what to do with the Spotted Owl.

To read more from Beda, you can click the link listed below.

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Much of the world is having a conversation about immigration. Which immigration is appropriate? Who is acceptable to have in your nation? While Americans struggle with this question at this moment, as Rishav Chatterjee explains in this Story Your City Forgot, the question is applicable to India as well.

There are many cultures across the world, each one could've been its own empire. Today, we learn why one of those cultures settled in the West, and why they struggled to adapt to the East.

As manifest destiny took hold colonist began to divy up the western united states, pushing native peoples from the lands they stewarded.

The act blocked access to a navigational beacon used by seven different cultures and opened the area to modern development, threatening its fragile foundation

The history of Eagle Rock is a story that Boise, Idaho, forgot.

We all have a different idea of what street art is. For some, it's a way to speak out against injustices, and for others, it's delinquent behavior. How did it get this way? I'm joined by Professor Dale Graden, who breaks down exactly how we got here.