Lawrence Goldstone

Wilbur and Orville Wright are two of the greatest innovators in history, and together they solved the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air flight....

Drive! plunges us headlong into a time unlike any in history, when manic innovation and consumerist zeal coalesced to forever change the way people got from one place to another....

On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, 39 men from 12 states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last....

In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians open a coffin and uncover the corpse of a beautiful young woman....

In another unrelenting look at the iniquities of the American justice system, Lawrence Goldstone examines the history of racism against Japanese Americans, exploring the territory of citizenship and touching on fears of non-white immigration to the US—with hauntingly contemporary echoes.

A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the listener into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer....

Discover the daring aviation pioneers who made the dream of powered flight a reality, forever changing the course of history....

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African-American voting rights in the United States....

One promise of democracy is the right of every citizen to vote. And yet, from our founding, political forces were determined to limit that right. As On Account of Race demonstrates, through the better part of American history the court has instead been a protector of white rule....

Paris, 1534. A student serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying....

In Brooklyn in 1899, Dr. Noah Whitestone is called urgently to his wealthy neighbor's house to treat a five-year-old boy with a shocking set of symptoms....

Just after 4 pm on September 6, 1901, 28-year-old anarchist Leon Czolgosz pumped two shots into the chest and abdomen of President William McKinley. Czolgosz had been on a receiving line waiting to shake the president’s hand, his revolver concealed in an oversized bandage....