About this season
Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America's great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.
Episodes (13)
1. Heroines
8.5Aired 23 January 2018 • 22 min
Deborah Sampson goes undercover as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War, Rose Valland rescues art from the Nazis, and Clara Barton becomes "the angel of the battlefield."
2. Dangerous Minds
7.8Aired 30 January 2018 • 22 min
Occultist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons works on his "sex magick," W.C. Minor helps write the Oxford English Dictionary, and Rasputin lives the high life in Russia.
3. Game Changers
7.8Aired 6 February 2018 • 22 min
Hip hop is born in 1970s New York City, Berry Gordy founds the massively influential Motown Records, and Nichelle Nichols brings the civil rights movement to space.
4. Sex
5.3Aired 13 February 2018 • 22 min
Margaret Sanger is a pioneering advocate for birth control, the Kinseys create a scale for sexuality, and journalist Gloria Steinem goes undercover in a Playboy Club.
5. Civil Rights
7.8Aired 20 February 2018 • 22 min
British suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu, Gwendolyn Sanders ignites the Birmingham Crusade, and Judy Heumann leads a sit-in for people with disabilities.
6. Underdogs
7.8Aired 27 February 2018 • 22 min
Fred Rogers fights for public television in front of Congress, journalist Ida Tarbell takes on John D. Rockefeller, and Maya Lin designs the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
7. Drunk Mystery
7.7Aired 6 March 2018 • 22 min
Mystery writer Agatha Christie vanishes, a man known as D.B. Cooper successfully hijacks a plane, and a series of anonymous letters haunts the town of Circleville, OH.
8. World War II
8.0Aired 19 June 2018 • 22 min
A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps, and Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.
9. Heists
7.8Aired 26 June 2018 • 22 min
An Italian handyman steals the “Mona Lisa,” the “Santa bandits” rob a bank in Texas, and Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.
10. Animals
8.5Aired 3 July 2018 • 22 min
A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.
11. The Middle Ages
7.5Aired 10 July 2018 • 22 min
Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War, Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power, AND Mansa Musa brings thousands of people on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
12. Death
7.8Aired 17 July 2018 • 22 min
Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers, a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's body, and an embalmed bandit makes his way around the country.
13. Halloween
8.5Aired 24 July 2018 • 22 min
A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town, one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween, and Vlad the Impaler inspires the classic horror story Dracula.