https://tracingthepath.com
We uncover the forgotten figures behind history’s turning points, reveal how technology and popular culture reshaped society, and highlight the stories that textbooks overlook. Whether you’re passionate about modern history, fascinated by world events, or looking for a history podcast that brings the 20th century alive through storytelling, Tracing The Path is your guide to understanding the past that shaped our present.

I'm Dan R Morris. I grew up with the greatest storytellers of the 20th century like Paul Harvey, Charles Kuralt, Charles Osgood and Garrison Keillor. And I absolutely loved the amazing stories they told about the people, places, companies, products and events of the 20th Century. 

Tracing the Path uncovers the hidden connections you would never know about the most iconic pop culture happenings of the 1900s. What you thought you knew, prepare to be amazed. 

And check out TracingThePath.com for the associated transcript, trivia/discussion questions, and glossary of key terms for every episode. We're proud to be the most listened to "Audio Hour" at assisted living and nursing homes around the world. 




Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>enHistoryDan R Morrishttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7b7cbaef0ee2376354f6036015fd1ffd.jpghttps://tracingthepath.comFri, 31 Jul 2026 04:25:02 +0000Dan R MorrisDan R Morrisfeeds@spreaker.comTracing The Path is a 20th Century history podcast dedicated to exploring the connections between the defining stories of the twentieth century. Each episode follows surprising connections across time—linking world wars, political movements, cultural...
We uncover the forgotten figures behind history’s turning points, reveal how technology and popular culture reshaped society, and highlight the stories that textbooks overlook. Whether you’re passionate about modern history, fascinated by world events, or looking for a history podcast that brings the 20th century alive through storytelling, Tracing The Path is your guide to understanding the past that shaped our present.

I'm Dan R Morris. I grew up with the greatest storytellers of the 20th century like Paul Harvey, Charles Kuralt, Charles Osgood and Garrison Keillor. And I absolutely loved the amazing stories they told about the people, places, companies, products and events of the 20th Century. 

Tracing the Path uncovers the hidden connections you would never know about the most iconic pop culture happenings of the 1900s. What you thought you knew, prepare to be amazed. 

And check out TracingThePath.com for the associated transcript, trivia/discussion questions, and glossary of key terms for every episode. We're proud to be the most listened to "Audio Hour" at assisted living and nursing homes around the world. 




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It was also fought with supermarkets, television cameras, vodka, and a simple paper cup filled with Pepsi.

This month, Tracing The Path follows the surprising chain of events that led an American soft drink behind the Iron Curtain—and a Russian vodka into American liquor stores.

Along the way you'll discover the forgotten friendship between Russia and the United States, the invention of videotape by Ampex, the famous Kitchen Debate between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, and the remarkable business deal that briefly made Pepsi the owner of the world's seventh-largest navy.

It's the story of how commerce, technology, and ordinary consumer products accomplished what politics often could not.

And why, decades later, Vladimir Putin chose to reverse nearly all of it.



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It was also fought with supermarkets, television cameras, vodka, and a simple paper cup filled with Pepsi.

This month, Tracing The Path follows the surprising chain of events that led an American soft drink behind the Iron Curtain—and a Russian vodka into American liquor stores.

Along the way you'll discover the forgotten friendship between Russia and the United States, the invention of videotape by Ampex, the famous Kitchen Debate between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, and the remarkable business deal that briefly made Pepsi the owner of the world's seventh-largest navy.

It's the story of how commerce, technology, and ordinary consumer products accomplished what politics often could not.

And why, decades later, Vladimir Putin chose to reverse nearly all of it.



Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2503false182fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-81-the-hero-at-the-edge-of-the-map--72761529
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-06-30T11_47_23-07_00Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:47:23 +0000Dan R MorrisNo matter what hero story you read or hear, the location it takes place will be in total alignment with the era it was written. And it has changed over time because society always pushes the hero to face the unknown at the edge of the map. In today's...
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-05-29T21_40_43-07_00Sat, 30 May 2026 04:40:43 +0000Dan R MorrisToday's episode is Part 3 of our Origin Story Series about the start of Tracing The Path. Today's story touches on Russia's Yuri Andropov, Mark Twain, Bram Stoker, Nicolae Ceaușescu the Austro Hungarian Empire, the University of Nebraska, Auschwitz,...
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-05-01T20_28_05-07_00Sat, 02 May 2026 03:28:05 +0000Dan R MorrisIn today's episode we discussion the evolution of grocery stores, as discussed in Episode 78. Life in Romania, automatic sliding doors, Walgreens lighting, Rachel's dads inventions and the plight of A&P. 
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In this episode we cross paths with Marjorie Merriwether Post, IBM, Spectra-Physics, Wrigley's Gum, James J. Hill, Clarence Saudners, Williams Leslie Maxson, Boris Yeltsin and Grape Nuts. 

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-04-29T22_30_26-07_00Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:30:26 +0000Dan R MorrisWhen Boris Yeltsin came to the United States in 1989 to speak, visit with the President and see the Statue of Liberty, his entire outlook on the world changed in one :20 minute moment. But it wasn't NYC or Miami or President Bush. It was Randall's...
In this episode we cross paths with Marjorie Merriwether Post, IBM, Spectra-Physics, Wrigley's Gum, James J. Hill, Clarence Saudners, Williams Leslie Maxson, Boris Yeltsin and Grape Nuts. 

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2427false178fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-77-the-conversation-world-s-best-music--71043262
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-04-01T06_08_07-07_00Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:08:07 +0000Dan R MorrisAre those really the world's most famous tunes? Rachel and I discuss the "easter eggs" of the show, whether they are songs and more ludicrousness.  Foreigner, Twinkle Twinkle, Happy Birthday . . . what do you think? 
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-03-29T09_55_33-07_00Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:55:33 +0000Dan R MorrisCan you believe the world's most famous music is 3,000 years old?  Not necessarily from the first note written, but from the idea that created it. In this episode we cross paths with Thomas Edison, Stanley Kubrick,  Walt Disney, The Lone Ranger,...
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-03-10T18_01_49-07_00Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:01:49 +0000Dan R MorrisWe're taking "the cutting room floor" to a new level. Rachel and I go over all the stories we couldn't fit into "The Real Forrest Gump" story.  Enjoy this new series and a full conversation, including Josh Norton: The Emperor of the United States. 
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Follow the journey of a man who:

• Survived the rugged Oregon Trail during the height of the expansion.
  
  
• Navigated the treacherous Mississippi as a high-stakes steamboat captain.
  
  
• Chased a fortune as a silver and gold miner in the wild West.
  
  
• Crossed the Atlantic Ocean six times, becoming one of the first true global celebrities.
  
  
• Revolutionized modern life by inventing and patenting the everyday bra strap clasp.
  
  

He wasn't just a witness to history—he was the one writing it. Join us as we peel back the layers of a life so cinematic, it’s hard to believe he was ever real. You might think you know who we’re talking about, but the final destination is a name you’d never expect to find sitting on that bench.



Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-02-28T20_41_18-08_00Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:41:18 +0000Dan R MorrisBefore there was a movie, there was a man who lived it. We all know the story of the accidental hero who wandered through history, rubbing elbows with presidents and changing the world by mistake. But what if that story wasn't fiction? In this...
Follow the journey of a man who:

• Survived the rugged Oregon Trail during the height of the expansion.
  
  
• Navigated the treacherous Mississippi as a high-stakes steamboat captain.
  
  
• Chased a fortune as a silver and gold miner in the wild West.
  
  
• Crossed the Atlantic Ocean six times, becoming one of the first true global celebrities.
  
  
• Revolutionized modern life by inventing and patenting the everyday bra strap clasp.
  
  

He wasn't just a witness to history—he was the one writing it. Join us as we peel back the layers of a life so cinematic, it’s hard to believe he was ever real. You might think you know who we’re talking about, but the final destination is a name you’d never expect to find sitting on that bench.



Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2365false174fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-73-the-gilded-age-first-march-on-washington-d-c--69695145
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2026-01-30T14_17_37-08_00Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:17:37 +0000Dan R MorrisIn 1894 Jacob Coxey decided to take thousands of unemployed and March on Washington. Well, that was just the prequel to 1964 March for Civil Rights. But it's how A. Philip Randolph was indoctrinated to the idea. And crazily this store involves both...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2187false173fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-72-inventive-hellos-and-economic-goodbyes--69226197
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-12-27T21_52_25-08_00Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:52:25 +0000Dan R MorrisThe word Hello showed up just as the world was changing . . . in the absolute biggest ways ever. Nothing was the same after "Hello". In this episode we cross paths with Michigan J Frog, Tin Pan Alley, the Phonograph, Western Union, Laura Ingalls...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>1686false172fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-71-the-amana-utopia-and-patriot-missile--68937333
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-11-23T19_41_56-08_00Mon, 24 Nov 2025 03:41:56 +0000Dan R MorrisCan you imagine a group running on perfect communism, flourishing in the capitalist market and then eventually spawning the Patriot Missile - to fight actual Communists. And it happened twice. In this episode we cross paths with Quaker Oatmeal,...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>1632false171fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-70-who-knows-the-truth-does-a-i--68937339
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-10-23T20_57_09-07_00Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:57:09 +0000Dan R MorrisSomewhere along the way, we lost the truth. The questions we ask about the truth haven't been the same since Orson Welles' War of the World's Broadcast in 1938, but that doesn't mean we haven't stopped trying. In this episode we cross paths with...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>1884false170fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-69-status-symbol-for-rent--68937334
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-09-28T20_15_52-07_00Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:15:52 +0000Dan R MorrisIn today’s episode we’re discussing three of the history's most amazing "status symbol" stories. The story involves the Silk Road, Sulieman the Magnificent, Tulipomania, Carolus Clusius, Chuck Berry, Christopher Columbus, Henry Ford, James Dole,...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2040false169fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-68-hello-darkness-my-new-friend-the-story-of-the-family-who-created-sonar-and-braille--68937335
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-08-22T11_25_39-07_00Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:25:39 +0000Dan R MorrisIn this episode we explore Simon & Garfunkel, Louis Braille, Charles Barbier, Valentin Haüy and René-Jus Haüy, Marvel Comics, Popular Science Magazine, Plato and even George Washington. How the world has fought Darkness has been pretty amazing . ....
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>1767blindness,bralle,sonarfalse168fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-67-how-a-coffee-shop-changed-the-world-the-origin-story-of-lloyds-of-london--68937346
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>1702false167fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-66-the-america-of-tarzan-and-buck-vs-bell--68937367
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-06-27T11_18_14-07_00Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:18:14 +0000Dan R MorrisThe 1890 closing of the Frontier by the US Census Bureau is a major milestone in the history of the United States. The outcome of that change affected the mindset of the Americans. . . and from that comes some of our most loved fiction. But on the...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2164false166fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-65-when-osama-bin-laden-wrinkled-fdr-s-plans-the-100-year-fight-against-polio--68937350
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2129false165fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-64-how-did-bob-hope-s-uso-become-a-thing-and-who-performed--68937338
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-04-25T15_52_12-07_00Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:52:12 +0000Dan R MorrisIn today's episode we look at all the people and plans it took to create the United Service Organization (USO). While there was enormous planning and smart people, it wouldn't be what it is without a trumpet player from Chicago. We cross paths with...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2246false164fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-63-classified-how-the-library-built-the-fbi-and-how-did-j-edgar-hoover-get-involved--68937352
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-03-24T19_04_59-07_00Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:04:59 +0000Dan R MorrisIt all started in the 1500s with Sir Francis Bacon, and then in the 1700s with Carl Linnaeus. And along the way we run into Thomas Jefferson, President McKinley, Melvil Dewey, Elihu Root, Napoleon Bonaparte, Al Capone, Teddy Roosevelt, the Library of...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>2299false163fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-62-the-cheesy-results-of-ww-ii-plus-the-story-of-how-nachos-came-to-be--68937365
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-02-25T21_10_48-08_00Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:10:48 +0000Dan R MorrisOne of the greatest products of World War II was "cheesy".  And it's all Wisconsin's fault. In fact it's possible that without WW2 three of the greatest things in your daily life just wouldn't be there. In today's episode we cross paths with FDR,...
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>1983false162fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-61-every-episode-has-4--68937379
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2025-01-20T21_36_42-08_00Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:36:42 +0000Dan R MorrisThis is episode 61, the end of the first era and beginning of the second. In fielding your hundreds of ideas for shows, we decided to go over the 4 actual requirement that every story must have before becoming an episode of Tracing The Path. We look...
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2024-12-17T18_09_56-08_00Wed, 18 Dec 2024 02:09:56 +0000Dan R MorrisThe fact that our most beloved children's author was a spy for the British isn't the twist. The twist comes when his greatest enemy becomes an important advisor. Along the way we run into Ian Fleming, FDR, Cadbury, Quaker Oats, Winston Churchill,...
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Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tracing-the-path-the-connected-20th-century--6817718/support.]]>https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/tracingthepath/episodes/2024-10-22T18_59_45-07_00Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:59:45 +0000Dan R MorrisThe "American Dream" was first coined in 1931. In 1971 two things happened on exactly the same day . . . the world's biggest song was released lamenting the end of the American Dream. And the world's biggest dreamer opened the most amazing American...
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