The Last Archive

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

Callings

In the 1940s, a freelance wiretapper named Big Jim Vaus got mixed up with the cops, the mob, and the most famous evangelist in America. This week on The Last Archive: The ballad of Big Jim and what the intersections of telephone history and American spirituality reveal about how we understand the phone.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

• 

  John Birch vs. the PTA

• 

  Leon Neyfakh on the Bush v. Gore Fiasco

• 

  Part 2: Long Jump, Tall Tale

• 

  Part 1: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

• 

  70 Years of Brown v. Board of Education

• 

  Man in the Box - 'The Deadline'

• 

  No, We Cannot - ‘The Deadline’

• 

  The Disruption Machine - ‘The Deadline’

• 

  It’s Still Alive - ‘The Deadline’

• 

  The Valley of the Dolls - ‘The Deadline’

• 

  The Iceman - ‘The Deadline’

• 

  Coming Soon: Jill Lepore’s The Deadline

• 

  From Decoder Ring: “The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part …

• 

  The Returns: A Conversation with Jill Lepore

• 

  The Returns: Epiphany

• 

  The Returns: Hush Rush