Explore The Latest Episodes from One Shot At History
One Shot at History is a history podcast hosted by Carl Reinemann — a local historian, researcher, and public speaker based in Horicon, Wisconsin. Each episode pulls a forgotten story from the archives and gives it the attention it never got the first time around. Unsolved crimes. Overlooked community moments. Historical figures with secrets. Ordinary people who shaped their world in extraordinary ways and were almost completely forgotten.
Carl draws from years of hands-on archival research — old newspaper columns, court records, sworn depositions, and the collections of institutions like the State Historical Society of Wisconsin — to build episodes that are as historically grounded as they are compelling to listen to. No fluff. No filler. Just the stories that history almost lost. Because the past only happens once.
However you listen, we’re there — Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeart, Pandora, and just about everywhere else podcasts live.
I’m always developing new podcast ideas, and the list keeps growing as new stories and questions come into focus. Some upcoming episodes will explore what brewing was like in a 19th-century small town, the sories of Native American mythological beliefs, and the little-known history of German POWs in Wisconsin.
It’s all part of an ongoing effort to dig into the past, follow the interesting threads, and bring forward stories worth hearing.