The Morbid Museum returns with a special America 250 episode! In 1776, forgotten revolutionary and Founding Father Thomas Paine blazed a trail of powerful rhetoric with "Common Sense", a pamphlet that galvanized the citizens of British America to break away from the King. Two Hundred and Fifty years later, despite his remains being scattered in a hair-brained grave robbing plot and his reputation buried by detractors, Paine endures as a salient torch-bearer for the cause of America.

Project Gutenberg: Common Sense

Thomas Paine Political Cartoons - Thomas Paine Historical Association

Thomas Paine Historical Marker - Pomeroy Foundation

Thomas Paine's Scattered Body INTP Blog

Moncure Conway’s Essay on Paine's Remains

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America by Harvey Kaye

The Church of Saint Thomas Paine by Leigh Eric Schmidt

Song: Tom Paine's Bones (Graham Moore)

On February 14th 1929, a gruesome murder scene was uncovered - 7 associates of the North Side Gang had been riddled with bullets while inside a garage. The crime horrified the people of Chicago, a city already beleaguered by years of gang wars that had begun in the wake of Prohibition. Considered an unsolved murder, the massacre will forever be remembered as the quintessential example of mob violence in the 1920s.

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Jill Cohen

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Artwork: Brittany Schall

Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod

For 150 years, Hart Island has been the final resting place for New York City's unclaimed, forgotten, and unknown dead. We review the history of this potter's field discussing its recent turnover to the city Park's Department and new chapter of open access.

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Matthew Aronoff

Dennis Barette

Rob Emmett

Haley Lamp

Tristen Pearson

Lauren Stephenson

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Artwork: Brittany Schall

Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod