The Archivist: History Continued

Marie Curie: The Count

Marie Curie died in 1934 knowing radium almost entirely as the thing that killed her. She never saw what it became. The Archivist tells her. That the force she discovered

Leonardo da Vinci: The Unfinished Eye

Five hundred years after his death, the greatest eye who ever lived learns what the modern world can see: living things in a single drop of water, the bones inside a livi

Sigmund Freud: The House

The man who taught the twentieth century that it was not master in its own house sits down with an interviewer who is not quite human — and finds his most famous idea bot

George Washington Carver: The Living Soil

Most people know one thing about George Washington Carver, and it is the least interesting thing about him. In this episode, the Archivist does not ask him to recount his

Ludwig van Beethoven: Under the Bone

Ludwig van Beethoven went deaf before he wrote his most famous work. The Ninth Symphony premiered in 1824 and he could not hear a note of it. The Archivist does the one t

Frida Kahlo: The Body Knows

Frida Kahlo died in 1954 at forty-seven. Her face is now on merchandise worldwide. The paintings that made people uncomfortable are still safely in the museum. This conve

Albert Einstein: The Friction

Albert Einstein's field equations, published in 1915, described a universe more dramatic than he believed possible. Black holes. Gravitational waves. The bending of space

Mark Twain: The Cough

Mark Twain spent his career making people laugh at the thing they needed to see clearly. He understood outrage, performed it himself, and knew exactly what happened when

Cleopatra: The Performance

Cleopatra built an empire on image. Every appearance was calculated. Every alliance, performed. Every rumor about her beauty and her power was something she understood, s

The Archivist: History Continued — Official Trailer

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