The BEST episodes written by Derek Waters

Atlanta
star
8.06
406 votes

#1 - Atlanta

Drunk History - Season 1 - Episode 3

John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola from wine and cocaine, the F.B.I tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr. and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Klu Klux Klan.

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Nashville
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8.01
297 votes

#2 - Nashville

Drunk History - Season 1 - Episode 7

Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous, competing lawyers clash in the Scopes Monkey Trial, and Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous west.

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Space
star
7.96
223 votes

#3 - Space

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 13

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love over a golden record, Wernher Von Braun pioneers rocket science and Alexey Leonov becomes the first man to float in space.

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First Ladies
star
7.88
187 votes

#4 - First Ladies

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 10

Frances Cleveland becomes the youngest first lady ever, Edith Wilson runs the country after Woodrow Wilson's stroke and Dolley Madison saves several artifacts from destruction.

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Chicago
star
7.88
522 votes

#5 - Chicago

Drunk History - Season 1 - Episode 2

Al Capone is done in by an easily solved problem, Abraham Lincoln catches a break and police battle with protesters during The Haymarket Riot of 1886.

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New York City
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7.87
262 votes

#6 - New York City

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 2

The U.S. reluctantly accepts the Statue of Liberty, Sybil Ludington goes on an epic ride to warn of a British attack and journalist Nellie Bly infiltrates a corrupt mental institution.

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Montgomery, AL
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7.86
281 votes

#7 - Montgomery, AL

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 1

Percy Julian battles adversity to become one of the greatest scientists of all time, Claudette Colvin lays the groundwork for Rosa Parks and Joe Louis fights Max Schmeling.

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Hollywood
star
7.84
240 votes

#8 - Hollywood

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 6

Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" angers William Randolph Hearst, animator Ub Iwerks helps Walt Disney create "Mickey Mouse" and Nancy Reagan convinces her movie star husband to enter politics.

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Boston
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7.82
349 votes

#9 - Boston

Drunk History - Season 1 - Episode 4

Mary Dyer wages war with the Puritan establishment, two cunning thieves pull off a $500 million art heist and the most notorious arsonist in New England history is revealed.

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Charleston
star
7.78
223 votes

#10 - Charleston

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 5

Charles Sumner gets caned on the Senate floor, Judge J. Waties Waring helps to end segregation and a slave named Robert Smalls commandeers a Confederate warship.

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Philadelphia
star
7.77
211 votes

#11 - Philadelphia

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 8

Baron von Steuben helps train The Continental Army, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson campaign against each other to be President and Benedict Arnold betrays George Washington’s army.

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San Francisco
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7.76
369 votes

#12 - San Francisco

Drunk History - Season 1 - Episode 5

Patty Hearst gets kidnapped and brainwashed, Mark Twain flees the city in fear (and finds his unlikely first hit story) and Mary Ellen Pleasant supports abolitionists with her business earnings.

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Journalism
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7.74
191 votes

#13 - Journalism

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 8

Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland race each other around the world, New York's newsboys go on strike, and a political cartoonist exposes a corrupt politician.

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The Wild West
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7.73
262 votes

#14 - The Wild West

Drunk History - Season 1 - Episode 8

Teddy Roosevelt makes a name for himself, hold-outs fight to the bitter end at The Alamo and Billy The Kid goes on the run from Lawman Pat Garrett.

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Baltimore
star
7.70
237 votes

#15 - Baltimore

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 4

Newly elected President Abraham Lincoln tries to avoid assassination on the way to his inauguration, Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Edgar Allan Poe feuds with Rufus Griswold.

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Hawaii
star
7.68
243 votes

#16 - Hawaii

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 7

British explorer Captain James Cook socializes with the natives in Hawaii, future Senator Daniel Inouye fights in World War II and surfer Eddie Aikau earns a reputation for riding big waves.

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Detroit
star
7.68
344 votes

#17 - Detroit

Drunk History - Season 1 - Episode 6

The Kellogg brothers litigate over their famous surname (and the newly profitable discovery of corn flakes), Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go from best friends to bitter rivals.

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American Music
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7.64
261 votes

#18 - American Music

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 3

Disc Jockey Alan Freed plays rock and roll for the first time, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from Johnny Cash and music producer Sylvia Robinson assembles The Sugarhill Gang.

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Sports Heroes
star
7.62
213 votes

#19 - Sports Heroes

Drunk History - Season 2 - Episode 9

Jim Thorpe is named the greatest athlete of the 20th century, Babe Didrikson breaks down gender barriers in sports and Jim Abbott achieves prominence as a pitcher despite having only one hand.

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New Jersey
star
7.61
228 votes

#20 - New Jersey

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 1

Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become bitter rivals while creating Paleontology and Penzias & Wilson discover the sound of The Big Bang.

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Spies
star
7.60
235 votes

#21 - Spies

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 4

Harriet Tubman provides military intel to the Union Army, Virginia Hall spies in France during World War II (and becomes the first woman in the C.I.A) and children's books' author Roald Dahl serves as a debonair British spy.

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Washington, D.C.
star
7.53
739 votes

#22 - Washington, D.C.

Drunk History - Season 1 - Episode 1

Woodward and Bernstein blow open the Watergate scandal, actors/brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth engage in a tragic feud and Elvis crashes The White House to meet President Richard Nixon.

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Oklahoma
star
7.50
201 votes

#23 - Oklahoma

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 7

Kentucky Daisy claims land for the ladies, Gordon Cooper goes on a pioneering space mission, and former slave Bass Reeves becomes the inspiration for the Lone Ranger.

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Miami
star
7.47
246 votes

#24 - Miami

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 2

Actor Clark Gable joins the U.S Air Force during World War II, Ponce de León quarrels with Diego Colón (son of Christopher Columbus) in the 1500s and Griselda Blanco takes over the cocaine trade in Miami in the 1970s.

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New Orleans
star
7.46
235 votes

#25 - New Orleans

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 3

Pirate Jean Laffite helps Andrew Jackson defeat the British during the War of 1812, Sam Zemurray becomes a banana kingpin and Louis Armstrong becomes a jazz legend.

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Las Vegas
star
7.40
197 votes

#26 - Las Vegas

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 12

Bugsy Siegel bets his life on a Las Vegas casino, while the Moulin Rouge breaks the color barrier, Sin City's origins are a popularity contest for J.T. McWilliams and William Clark.

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Los Angeles
star
7.35
200 votes

#27 - Los Angeles

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 9

The LAPD is formed to stop the city from devolving into chaos, Rin Tin Tin becomes a global superstar, and William Mulholland figures out how to bring water to Los Angeles.

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Games
star
7.35
254 votes

#28 - Games

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 6

Milton Bradley jumpstarts the board game industry, Roger Sharpe fights for pinball legalization in 1970s New York City, and Bobby Fischer becomes the World Chess Champion.

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Cleveland
star
7.32
182 votes

#29 - Cleveland

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 5

Wayne Wheeler leads the Prohibition charge, Dorothy Fuldheim paves the way for women in journalism, and Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam War.

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Inventors
star
7.24
206 votes

#30 - Inventors

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 11

Alexander Graham Bell beats Elisha Gray to the patent office for the telephone, Thomas Edison endeavors to launch a filmmaking monopoly.

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New Mexico
star
6.89
193 votes

#31 - New Mexico

Drunk History - Season 3 - Episode 10

Popé leads the Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonizers in 1680, Boy Scouts cofounder Ernest Thompson Seton tracks a wolf, the true story of the Roswell UFO conspiracy is revealed.

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