
About this podcast
Tracing The Path is a 20th Century History podcast exploring how ordinary people, products, ideas, events, and places unexpectedly shaped the modern world.Every episode begins with something familiar—a word, a company, a song, an invention, a historical event, or a cultural phenomenon—and follows the surprising chain of connections that made it matter.Why did a grocery store change the course of the Cold War?How did a simple greeting become part of everyday life?What do advertising agencies,…
77 episodes · history
Tracing The Path: The Connected 20th Century
About this podcast
Tracing The Path is a 20th Century History podcast exploring how ordinary people, products, ideas, events, and places unexpectedly shaped the modern world.Every episode begins with something familiar—a word, a company, a song, an invention, a historical event, or a cultural phenomenon—and follows the surprising chain of connections that made it matter.Why did a grocery store change the course of the Cold War?How did a simple greeting become part of everyday life?What do advertising agencies,…
Recent episodes
- Episode 83: The Conversation: Pepsi Cracked the Iron Curtain4 Aug · 30 min
- Episode 82: When Pepsi Cracked the Iron Curtain31 Jul · 42 min
- Episode 81: The Hero at the Edge of the Map30 Jun · 28 min
- Episode 80: One Step Leads to Another30 May · 32 min
- Episode 79: The Conversation: Yeltsin's Grocery Revolution2 May · 28 min
- Episode 78: Yeltsin's Grocery Revolution30 Apr · 40 min
- Episode 77: The Conversation: World's Best Music1 Apr · 33 min
- Episode 76: The World's Most Famous Music29 Mar · 34 min
- Episode 75: The Conversation: The Real Forrest Gump11 Mar · 24 min
- Episode 74: The Real Life Forrest Gump1 Mar · 39 min