The Backstory with Patty Steele

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  • Love a good, juicy story that goes beyond what we already know? We're talking scandalous presidential family members, a mass murder at a world-famous architect's home, stolen inventions, nude athletes at the first Olympics, compulsive liars, the arrival of the bikini, and so much more. History fanatic Patty Steele tells you the inside backstories you didn’t know you needed to know.
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  • The Backstory: The guy that connected us all

    The Backstory: The guy that connected us all
    Mar 4 2025

    Imagine a world with no internet. Head back 30 years or so and you’ll see how the world wide web changed everything about how we communicate, learn, bank, socialize, and entertain ourselves. And we have one kind of geeky guy to thank.

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    7 mins
  • The Backstory: Kate Chase: From the belle of Washington to egg lady

    The Backstory: Kate Chase: From the belle of Washington to egg lady
    Feb 28 2025

    Kate Chase was the 20-year-old queen bee of Washington society at the onset of the Civil War. She had the ear of Abe Lincoln and the hatred of his jealous wife Mary Todd Lincoln. Kate married rich but then fell for another powerful man…until they were caught. And that changed everything.

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    8 mins
  • The Backstory: Stealing Frank Sinatra Jr.

    The Backstory: Stealing Frank Sinatra Jr.
    Feb 25 2025

    It’s hard to imagine how a couple of 21-year-old kids could think up a scheme to snatch the son of one of the most famous entertainers in the world, much less carry it out. This is the crazy story of the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr.

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    11 mins

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Love history

I love history! Love hearing about the whole story not just one small piece. So far a am really enjoying all the history that was talked about so far

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