Places
Every episode stands somewhere. This is the index by subject and county.
| Episode | Subjects |
|---|---|
| 12 Deputies Drove That Road. 2 Came Back. | The Battle of Evarts, 1931 | Harlan County Battle of Evarts Bloody Harlan Kentucky history Appalachia coal mining history |
| The Judge Got Three Words Out. | Hillsville Courthouse, 1912 | Hillsville Carroll County Virginia Hillsville courthouse shooting Floyd Allen Sidna Allen Allen clan |
| 175 Men Checked In. Nobody Could Count the Dead. | Fraterville, 1902 | Fraterville Fraterville mine disaster Coal Creek Tennessee Anderson County Tennessee Briceville Cross Mountain mine |
| Masked Men Captured a Kentucky City. Only a Lawsuit Ever Named Them. | 1907 | Black Patch War night riders Silent Brigade Hopkinsville Kentucky Princeton Kentucky Caldwell County |
| They Widened the Tunnel to Sell the Rock That Was Killing the Men | 1930 | Hawks Nest Tunnel Gauley Bridge silicosis West Virginia history Union Carbide Rinehart and Dennis |
| He Named His Killer From the Gallows and Predicted the Acquittal | 1899 | Sevier County White Caps Sevierville Tennessee Whaley murders Pleas Wynn Catlett Tipton Bob Catlett |
| The Camp Said Its Water Was Perfect. The Wells Killed 18 Men | 1918 | Hot Springs North Carolina Mountain Park Hotel German internment camp World War I internment Madison County NC French Broad River |
| Congress Blamed the Second Explosion on the Government Itself | Scotia 1976 | Scotia mine disaster Scotia 1976 Letcher County Kentucky Oven Fork Blue Diamond Coal coal mine explosion |
| The Government Told Them There Was Uranium in Their Wells. It Left Out One Word. | Fernald Ohio Feed Materials Production Center Fernald Preserve Cincinnati history Department of Energy uranium contamination |
| Nothing on the Railroad Could Tell That the Bridge Had Moved | Big Bayou Canot Sunset Limited derailment Amtrak 1993 Mobile Alabama Alabama history NTSB accident report |
| Kentucky in 1940, in 93 Photographs | Marion Post Wolcott Kentucky 1940 Kentucky history FSA photography Farm Security Administration Great Depression photographs |
| The Government Built 198 Houses in West Virginia. 1,640 Families Applied. | Marion Post Wolcott West Virginia 1938 West Virginia history Scotts Run coal camps FSA photography |
| Two Miners Went to Detroit to Ask Henry Ford. They Were Fired When They Got Back. | Twin Branch West Virginia Henry Ford Fordson Coal coal strike 1934 United Mine Workers McDowell County |
| Four Armed Men Burned the Only House the Flood Spared | Frozen Creek, 1939 | Frozen Creek flood 1939 Kentucky flood Breathitt County Jackson Kentucky Vancleve Kentucky Kentucky Mountain Bible Institute |
| The Carnival Came to Coal Country Once a Year | West Virginia 1938, in Color | Marion Post Wolcott West Virginia history Scotts Run coal mining history colorized history 1938 |
| "Third of U.S. Pot Is in D.B. Forest": Kentucky's Marijuana War | Daniel Boone National Forest Kentucky history marijuana eradication paraquat DEA history Appalachia |
| A Flood, a Fiddler, and a Hole Punch | North Carolina's Blue Ridge in Color, 1936-1943 | North Carolina history Blue Ridge Mountains Appalachia colorized history FSA photography Great Depression |
| The Government Photographed Cincinnati for Eight Years. It Started in the Slums. | Cincinnati history Northern Kentucky Covington Kentucky Greenhills Ohio New Deal FSA photography |
| The Town at the Bottom of the Lake | East Tennessee in Color, 1935-1943 | TVA Norris Dam Loyston Tennessee East Tennessee history Cumberland Homesteads Crossville Tennessee |
| The Army Photographed Everything It Drowned | Lake Cumberland, 1936-1958 | lake cumberland wolf creek dam kentucky history burnside kentucky army corps of engineers russell county |
| "Uncle Sam Is My Shepherd" - the Georgia county the government tried to save, in color | greene county georgia jack delano dorothea lange fsa photography new deal georgia history |
| Tried Four Times for a Governor's Murder, Then Sent to Congress | kentucky history william goebel caleb powers frankfort kentucky appalachia assassination |
| The Fall the Buyers Vanished | The Tobacco Belt in Color, 1939-1940 | tobacco history North Carolina history Durham North Carolina tobacco auction flue-cured tobacco sharecroppers |
| Hauled Into Court 100 Times, Convicted Once - Maggie Bailey, Harlan County | kentucky history harlan county appalachia moonshine bootlegger maggie bailey |
| The Navy Inspected Harlan County House by House. Its Photographer Stayed With One Family. | harlan county kentucky history coal mining appalachia russell lee 1946 |
| Why Every Bridge in America Is Inspected Every Two Years | silver bridge point pleasant west virginia 1967 bridge collapse ohio river ntsb |
| "I Love My Mountains." Then He Went to Work on the Dam. | lewis hine tennessee valley authority norris dam east tennessee appalachia 1933 |
| 126 Saloons, 43 Night Clubs, 41 Gambling Convictions | newport kentucky kefauver committee organized crime cleveland syndicate campbell county kentucky covington kentucky |
| Who Could Afford the Houses Built for Destitute Miners? | arthurdale tygart valley homesteads west virginia history new deal subsistence homesteads farm security administration |
| A Memo Said Inspect This Dike Daily. That Was 1985. It Broke in 2008. | kingston coal ash spill tva roane county tennessee coal ash emory river inspector general report |
| They Were Paid in the Drug They Came to Quit | The U.S. Narcotic Farm | narcotic farm lexington kentucky addiction research center public health service history of addiction mkultra |
| What $7 a Month Bought in McDowell County, West Virginia, 1946 | mcdowell county mcdowell county west virginia west virginia history gary west virginia welch west virginia coal mining |
| 25,460 Feet Before the Work Began | Jewell Ridge, Virginia, 1946 | tazewell county virginia jewell ridge virginia bishop virginia raven virginia richlands virginia virginia history |
| Brought In to Break a Strike, Hired Last Ever After | Bertha Hill, 1938 | Marion Post Wolcott West Virginia history Scotts Run Bertha Hill coal mining history colorized history |
| 320,000 Acres, 2,609 Families, 3,390 Graves | Kentucky Lake, 1944 | Kentucky Lake Kentucky Dam TVA Tennessee Valley Authority Birmingham Kentucky Marshall County Kentucky |
| The Disease the X-Ray Couldn't See | Black Lung, 1974 | black lung coal miners Appalachia West Virginia Beckley West Virginia Harlan County Kentucky |
| "The Right to Destroy the Surface" | Knott County, Kentucky | broad form deed Knott County Kentucky strip mining eastern Kentucky Appalachia coal mining history |
| A New York Company Owned Half the Valley. Hiwassee Dam Drowned It. | Hiwassee Dam Murphy North Carolina Cherokee County North Carolina TVA Tennessee Valley Authority Hiwassee River |
| Why Is There a Desert in Tennessee? | Ducktown Tennessee Copperhill Tennessee Copper Basin Polk County Tennessee Georgia v Tennessee Copper Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Lexington Buried a Creek Under Vine Street | Lexington Kentucky Town Branch Lexington history Fayette County Kentucky Woodford County Kentucky Versailles Kentucky |
| What Was at Fort Knox Before the Gold? | Fort Knox Stithton Kentucky Hardin County Kentucky West Point Kentucky Camp Knox Lewis Hine |
| Closed for Selling Beer | Highlander Folk School, 1961 | Highlander Folk School Monteagle Tennessee Grundy County Tennessee Myles Horton Septima Clark Rosa Parks |
| The Corps Checked the Dams Next to Buffalo Creek. All Would Fail. | Buffalo Creek Buffalo Creek flood Buffalo Creek 1972 Logan County West Virginia Man West Virginia Saunders West Virginia |
| Chattanooga, 1906: One Lynching, Six Convictions, Ninety Days | Ed Johnson United States v. Shipp Chattanooga Chattanooga Tennessee Hamilton County Tennessee Walnut Street Bridge |
| "To Prevent Conflict and Ill-Feeling" | Louisville, 1914 | Buchanan v. Warley Louisville Louisville Kentucky racial zoning restrictive covenant Corrigan v. Buckley |
| Why Was the Mine at Fourmile, Kentucky Sealed for Three Years? | Fourmile Kentucky Bell County Kentucky Belva mine Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Pineville Kentucky mine disaster |
| The Best Coal Camp in Kentucky Had a Golf Course. Who Paid for It? | Wheelwright Kentucky Floyd County Kentucky Inland Steel coal camp company town Russell Lee |
| Company Towns of Kentucky and West Virginia, 1926–1946 | company town coal mining coal camp Appalachia Kentucky history West Virginia history |
| Cold Potatoes, Corn Bread and Mush | Appalachia Appalachian food sorghum molasses coal camp company store Kentucky history |
| Atlanta Had Two Cities. The Government Photographed Both (1936–1943) | atlanta history atlanta georgia 1930s atlanta colorized history fsa photographs walker evans |
| 175,000 Pictures in Black and White. 1,600 in Color. | Kodachrome FSA photographs Marion Post Wolcott John Vachon Great Depression in color 1930s color photographs |
| The Marine Corps Had Gliders at Parris Island, 1942 | Parris Island Marine Corps Marine glider Glider Group 71 Page Field barrage balloon |
| Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940: Two Hundred Homestead Claims in Real Color | Pie Town Pie Town New Mexico Catron County Russell Lee homesteaders Kodachrome |
| Puerto Rico Had a 500-Acre Limit. One Company Owned 12,188. | Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 1941 Jack Delano FSA OWI Kodachrome 500 acre law |
| Melrose Park, Illinois, 1942: The Yard Worked 24 Hours a Day | Proviso yard Melrose Park Melrose Park Illinois Chicago and North Western Jack Delano FSA OWI |
| Chicago to Los Angeles, 1943. The Water for the Engines Came by Train. | Santa Fe Railway Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Jack Delano Bagdad California Cajon Pass Amarillo Texas |
| Long Beach and Inglewood, 1942: Nobody Wrote Down Her Name | Long Beach California Inglewood California Douglas Aircraft North American Aviation Alfred Palmer Rosie the Riveter |
| Corpus Christi, 1942. Congress Abolished the Agency That Trained Her. | Corpus Christi Texas Fort Worth Texas Naval Air Station Corpus Christi Consolidated Aircraft B-24 Liberator C-87 transport |
| St. Croix, 1941: The Sugar Company Was the United States Government | St. Croix Virgin Islands US Virgin Islands Christiansted Frederiksted Charlotte Amalie |
| Cleveland and Sandusky, 1943: The Boats Only Had Eight Months | Cleveland Sandusky Ohio history Hulett unloader iron ore Great Lakes |
| Clarksdale, 1939: The Cotton Industry Told Congress There Was No Machine | Clarksdale Mississippi Delta Belle Glade Marion Post Wolcott sharecroppers day laborers |
| Southington, 1942. Congress Barred This Office From Publishing for Americans. | Southington Connecticut Bar Harbor Maine Civil Air Patrol Coastal Patrol 20 Office of War Information OWI |
| Thirty Cents an Hour, for Imported Workers Only. Robstown, Texas, 1942. | Robstown Texas Nueces County Farm Security Administration FSA labor camp migratory workers Arthur Rothstein |
| Southwest Washington, 1942 — Union Street Is Not on the Map Any More | Southwest Washington DC Washington DC history Shulman's Market Union Street SW Louise Rosskam John Collier photographer |
| The Pipeline Will Start Here | Alaska, 1973 | Trans-Alaska Pipeline Alaska pipeline Prudhoe Bay Valdez Alaska DOCUMERICA Dennis Cowals |
| Washington, D.C., 1943: The Light Looks Like an Angel | washington dc 1943 world war 2 homefront esther bubley boarding house government girls |
| Roanoke Farms, 1938: The Government Killed 211 of These 384 Photographs | fsa photography killed negatives john vachon roy stryker 1938 north carolina history |
| The EPA Wrote the Shot List First. Alloy, West Virginia, 1973 | documerica west virginia history kanawha valley alloy west virginia union carbide charleston west virginia |
| Head Toward the West. The TVA Grave Removals, 1933–1952. | tva tennessee history appalachia norris dam kentucky dam douglas dam |
| Birmingham, 1972: The Government Photographed the Air It Took to Court | birmingham alabama documerica alabama history birmingham history us steel fairfield works |
| Cleveland, 1973: The River Everyone Remembers Burning, Photographed After the Law | cleveland cuyahoga river documerica ohio history cleveland history clean water act |
| Oregon's Gas Lines Started in June. The Embargo Came in October. | oregon portland oregon 1973 oil crisis gas shortage energy crisis documerica |
| 640 Tons of Chlorine, a Few Blocks From Downtown Louisville | louisville louisville kentucky ohio river mcalpine dam chlorine barge 1972 |
| 60 to 4, Against Flood Insurance. Helen, Georgia, 1975. | helen georgia helen ga white county georgia north georgia north georgia mountains chattahoochee river |
| 600 Cars a Day, Then 80. Cincinnati's Tailpipe Test, 1975. | cincinnati cincinnati history hamilton county ohio norwood ohio newtown ohio 1975 |
| The EPA Photographed Cincinnati for Five Months and Found Nothing Wrong | cincinnati fountain square cincinnati history documerica epa tom hubbard |
| The Government Promised to Eradicate Dutch Elm Disease. It Never Spent a Dollar. | Dutch elm disease American elm DDT USDA Forest Service history |
| They Lived at the End of Logan's Runway. The 1972 Noise Law Exempted Aircraft. | east boston logan airport neptune road boston history massport documerica |
| The Government Photographed Them and Wrote Down What They Said | Harlan County Bell County McDowell County Scotts Run Bertha Hill Wheelwright |
| The Year America Built One Hundred Cars | streetcars interurban Greyhound Esther Bubley Russell Lee Marion Post Wolcott |
| The Night the Lights Came On | rural electrification REA Rural Electrification Administration electric cooperative the night the lights came on kerosene lamp |
| The Government Bought Every Tobacco Quota in Kentucky. It Never Told Anyone to Stop. | burley tobacco tobacco buyout tobacco quota Kentucky tobacco Kentucky history tobacco farming |
| "A Wink and a Nudge" | Hyden, Kentucky, December 30, 1970 | hyden kentucky leslie county hurricane creek mine disaster finley coal company 1970 coal mine explosion |
| What Happened to Kentucky's 7,205 One-Room Schools | one-room school one-room schoolhouse Breathitt County Kentucky history Appalachia Marion Post Wolcott |
| Every Town Had a Depot. In 1958 a Federal Examiner Gave Them a Date. | railroad depot train station passenger train Amtrak 1971 Interstate Commerce Commission Hosmer report |
| "The Tents Lit With Matches" | Ludlow, Colorado, 1914 | Ludlow massacre Ludlow Colorado 1914 Colorado coal strike Colorado National Guard Colorado Fuel and Iron Rockefeller |
| 104,089 Country Stores. Then the Census Stopped Counting. | country store general store crossroads store parcel post rural free delivery mail order catalog |
| 19 Dead, One Suspect, and Not a True Bill | Saltville, 1924 | Saltville Virginia muck dam disaster Palmertown dam failure Christmas Eve 1924 Mathieson Alkali Works |
| To Buy a Forest, Congress Had to Call It a River | virgin timber logging history Weeks Act national forest cut-over land stump farm |
| Washington Said the South Was Starving. Twelve States Voted That It Wasn't. | Pellagra, 1914-1941 | pellagra Joseph Goldberger Public Health Service Spartanburg South Carolina cotton mill villages Lewis Hine |
| The Weather Picked Hog-Killing Day. Then the Government Counted the Freezers. | hog killing hog killing day butchering day smokehouse farm life 1930s farm |
| Two Years to Save the American Chestnut | 1912-1973 | American chestnut chestnut blight chestnut tree wormy chestnut Appalachia Forest Service |
| Virginia Took 181,000 Acres to Give Away. The Court Said a Newspaper Notice Was Enough. | Shenandoah National Park Blue Ridge Virginia Corbin Hollow Nicholson Hollow Old Rag |
| "No Men Wanted" — The Train Out of Richwood, West Virginia, 1942 | Richwood West Virginia Nicholas County West Virginia Farm Security Administration John Collier World War II home front |