The Tower of London: Torture Culture
Instruments of torture and death were a large part of London's culture. Prisoners and criminals would often be subjected to severe torture to get information...
Buffalo History Museum Podcast: Suicide of a Goddess
On July 1, 1902, the Pan-American Exposition's Goddes of Light statue was torn to the ground. The statue, which adorned the fair's tallest structure, had...
Buffalo History Museum Podcast: Two Souls Lost
On April 14, 1912, the Titanic sunk, and more than half of her passengers and crew died in the Atlantic. We examine the story of...
The Saturn Club Liquor Raid
On August 23, 1923, a team of federal prohibition agents raided Buffalo's elite Saturn Club in search of illegal alcohol. The raid, which uncovered large...
Love Canal Pt. 3 — Escape
Twenty years after Hooker Chemical buried its last metal drum in the depths of William Love's abandoned canal, local residents began experiencing health problems. The...
Love Canal Pt. 1 — Model City
In 1894, William T. Love broke ground on his grand vision — a utopian community which he called "Model City." His dream, however, would never come...
30-Second Nightmare: The Cleve Hill School Fire
30 Second Nightmare: On March 31, 1954, a wooden annex of Cheektowaga's Cleve Hill School caught fire in seconds, taking the lives of fifteen children...
Ida Dora Fairbush: Buffalo’s First African American Teacher
Historian Barbara Seals Nevergold, PhD, visits the show to discuss the life of Ida Dora Fairbush, the first African American teacher in the Buffalo Public...
Remembering the Sand Creek Massacre and the Founding of America
Following the UB Intercultural and Diversity Center’s efforts to shed light on the history of Thanksgiving, the Young Americans for Freedom, a campus student organization,...
Bookcase Favorites: Sofia Petrovna
In her novel Sofia Petrovna, Soviet dissident Lydia Chukovskaya offers an intimate portrait into the realities of the Soviet Union’s Great Purges of 1937 and...