Season Five is Here.
Season Five of the Detroit History Podcast will explore the life and career of boxing icon, Joe Louis. We’ll jump into the true crime genre, digging into the story of a brutal triple-beheading on Detroit’s east side, in which three people were found in a van, their heads and hands hacked off. We’ll go further back in time, telling the story of a Native American Burial Mound on Detroit’s Southwest side. And we’ll delve into the history of Detroit Style Pizza.
Ketamine has found wide uses since the 1960s: As a painkiller, an anesthetic, a street drug consumed at raves, and -- now -- considered by many to be an exciting new treatment for depression. We explore how ketamine was developed here in Detroit, at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company, with...
Published 12/12/22
Broadcaster Fran Harris's life was a lifetime of firsts. She was the first woman newscaster in Detroit radio during World War II, persuading her bosses at WWJ to abandon its "guys only" tradition. And when television came along in Detroit on Channel 4 in 1946, she was on the air for that, too....
Published 12/05/22