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Welcome to the Detroit History Podcast. We’ll mine this city’s history, telling the story through this town’s cultural, social, political, musical and automotive heritage. Our chosen tool is the podcast.

During the second season we’ll be dealing with topics as varied as Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism; Detroit’s 1943 riot, which killed 34 people; the National Football League Champion Detroit Lions of 1957; and a history of one of this country’s last great newspaper saloons, the Anchor Bar. 

For Android users, listen on Spotify or our website: detroithistorypodcast.com

Dec 18, 2017

  1. In this episode of The Detroit History Podcast, we hear a rare recording of a confrontation between Coleman A. Young and a congressional committee in 1952. Many people pleaded their Fifth Amendment rights when the House of Un-American Activities Committee came to town looking for Reds. But a young labor organizer,...


Dec 11, 2017

The Beatles came to Detroit twice, once in 1964 and again in 1966, both times at Olympia Stadium. We'll hear the screams when the Fab Four took the stage at Olympia. We'll also hear two eastsiders talk about Beatlemania. And what about those jellybeans?