How We Got Here
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How We Got Here
A look at Virginia's rich history, one week at a time.
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Bonus Episode: Lincoln's Visit to Richmond
In this bonus episode of How We Got Here, we take a look back at the day President Abraham Lincoln visited Richmond. On April 4, 1865, just two days a...
Season 6 Behind the Sounds
In this bonus episode of How We Got Here - we go behind the sounds with Host Rachel DePompa, Executive Producer Colten Weekley and Digital Director Ka...
Episode 6: April 11-17
In this episode of How We Got Here - the early days of Thomas Jefferson. While much of the focus on Jefferson’s life turns to his later years, we dive...
Episode 5: April 4-10
In this episode of How We Got Here - Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. What you don’t know about the 90-minute meeting that signaled the end of the Civil...
Episode 4: March 28 - April 3
In this episode of How We Got Here - the burning of Richmond. Confederates fleeing the city aimed to set fire to warehouses, but Mother Nature had dif...
Episode 3: March 21-27
In this episode of How We Got Here - the famous plea for independence that Patrick Henry gave from a pew inside a church that still stands today. Plus...
Episode 2: March 14-20
In this episode of How We Got Here - The birth of James Madison. Learn how the father of the Constitution was shaped by his early years at Montpelier...
Episode 1: March 7-13
In this episode of How We Got Here - the birth of the ironclad. From the depths of the Chesapeake Bay rose a former Union warship that the Confederacy...
Season 6 Trailer
Season 6 launches on Monday, March 7. How We Got Here, presented by NBC12 in Richmond, Virginia, is a podcast highlighting Virginia’s rich history, on...
Season 5 Behind the Sounds
In this bonus episode of How We Got Here - we go behind the sounds with Host Rachel DePompa, Executive Producer Colten Weekley and Digital Director Ka...
Episode 6: August 9-15
In this episode of How We Got Here - the day English settlers raid the Powhatan town of Paspahegh, slaughtering two dozen including the chief’s wife a...
Episode 5: August 2-8
In this episode of How We Got Here - the day a tornado touched down in the Tri-Cities, shearing storefronts in half and claiming lives along the way....
Episode 4: July 26 - August 1
In this episode of How We Got Here - the mother of modern medicine, born in Virginia. The ethical seesaw surrounding Henrietta Lacks, and how her stor...
Episode 3: July 19-25
In this episode of How We Got Here - how the bounties of the Caribbean island of Bermuda helped save Jamestown – in a story that inspired William Shak...
Episode 2: July 12-18
In this episode of How We Got Here - years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in Alabama, Irene Morgan in Virginia did the same thing, lead...
Episode 1: July 5-11
In this episode of How We Got Here - A look at the final execution in Virginia before the first state in the South abolished the death penalty. Plus,...
Season 5 Trailer
Season 5 launches on Monday, July 5. How We Got Here, presented by NBC12 in Richmond, Virginia, is a podcast highlighting Virginia’s rich history, one...
Season 4 Behind the Sounds
In this bonus episode of How We Got Here, we go behind the sounds with Host Rachel DePompa and Executive Producer Colten Weekley to dive deep into how...
Episode 6: Nov. 9-15
In this episode of How We Got Here – The fight in Virginia to give women the right to vote; a three-generation, 72-year battle that came down to one v...
Episode 5: Nov. 2-8
In this episode of How We Got Here – Tales from the Lewis and Clark expedition that you didn’t learn in school: how American myth-making dominates the...
Episode 4: Oct. 26 - Nov. 1
In this episode of How We Got Here – the history of one of Richmond’s most glamorous and ritzy places to stay, the Jefferson Hotel. And, what you didn...
Episode 3: Oct. 19-25
In this episode of How We Got Here - the extraordinary life of a naval aviator and explorer from Virginia. The incredible journeys to both ends of the...
Episode 2: Oct. 12-18
In this episode of How We Got Here – the search for a serial rapist and murderer in Charlottesville. Plus, the birth of a woman who would go on to lea...
Episode 1: Oct. 5-11
In this episode of How We Got Here – the death of founding father George Mason. How his extraordinary life was full of both contributions and contradi...
Bonus Episode: Church Hill Tunnel Collapse
In this bonus episode of How We Got Here, we take a look back at the infamous collapse of the Church Hill tunnel in Richmond. On Oct. 2, 1925, the tra...
Season 4 Trailer
Season 4 launches on Monday, Oct. 5. How We Got Here, presented by NBC12 in Richmond, Virginia, is a podcast highlighting Virginia’s rich history, one...
Bonus Episode: May Day Over Moscow
In this bonus episode of How We Got Here, we sit down with Francis Gary Powers Junior, the son of the CIA spy who was shot down over the USSR on May 1...
Season 3 Behind the Sounds
In this bonus episode of How We Got Here, we go behind the sounds with Digital Director Kate Albright and Executive Producer Colten Weekley to dive de...
Episode 6: May 25-31
In this episode of How We Got Here – The birth of Richmond’s Monument Avenue. The day the Robert E. Lee monument is unveiled in a field west of the ci...
Episode 5: May 18-24
In this episode of How We Got Here – A tainted treaty for peace in the Virginia Colony. Colonists seeking revenge poison Powhatan Native Americans wit...
Episode 4: May 11-17
In this episode of How We Got Here – A Virginian caught in the middle of U.S. and Soviet spy games after being taken prisoner by the KGB.
Episode 3: May 4-10
In this episode of How We Got Here – Secretariat’s birth in a humble, foaling shed in Virginia. How the legend went on to become the greatest racehors...
Episode 2: April 27 - May 3
In this episode of How We Got Here – Dozens killed when a packed courtroom floor gives way at the Virginia State Capitol in what became known as the C...
Episode 1: April 20-26
In this episode of How We Got Here - the largest manhunt in American history; the escape and eventual death of John Wilkes Booth. Inside the macabre m...
Season 3 Bonus Trailer
Season 3 launches on Monday, April 20. In this bonus trailer, we take you through some of its most memorable moments.
How We Got Here, presented...
Season 3 Trailer
Season 3 launches on Monday, April 20. How We Got Here, presented by NBC12 in Richmond, Virginia, is a podcast highlighting Virginia’s rich history, o...
Season 2 Behind the Sounds
In this bonus episode of How We Got Here, we go behind the sounds with Executive Producer Colten Weekley to dive deep into how we made this season. Yo...
Episode 6: Dec. 23-29
In this week’s episode of How We Got Here, the true story of albino brothers from Virginia who were abducted and exploited by the circus for decades b...
Episode 5: Dec. 16-22
In this episode of How We Got Here, how a Virginia newspaper got the Wright Brother’s first flight oh so wrong. Plus—a brewing tea party demands indep...
Episode 4: Dec. 9-15
In this episode of How We Got Here, George Washington’s final moments after a torturous night of medical care. And it ended before it began - we take...