The Last Archive
The Last Archive is a show about the history of truth, and the historical context for our current fake news, post-truth moment. It’s a show about how we know what we know, and why it seems, these days, as if we don’t know anything at all anymore. The show is driven by host Jill Lepore’s work as a historian, uncovering the secrets of the past the way a detective might. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.
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The Computermen
In 1966, just as the foundations of the Internet were being imagined, the federal government considered building a National Data Center.
41 min
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Cell Strain
In the 1950s, polio spread throughout the United States.
45 min
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Project X
The election of 1952 brought all kinds of new technology into the political sphere.
41 min
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Unheard
In 1945, Ralph Ellison went to a barn in Vermont and began to write 'Invisible Man.'
39 min
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The Invisible Lady
In 1804, an Invisible Lady arrived in New York City.
37 min
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Detection of Deception
When James Frye, a young black man, is charged with murder under unusual circumstances in 1922, he trusts his fate to a strange new machine: the lie detector.
46 min
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The Clue of the Blue Bottle
On a spring day in 1919, a woman’s body was found bound, gagged, and strangled in a garden in Barre, Vermont. Who was she?
42 min
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Introducing The Last Archive
The Last Archive: a new podcast about the history of evidence written and hosted by New Yorker writer, author, and celebrated historian Jill Lepore.
2 min