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The Sham Battle and the Cochecho Massacre
It was half performance for the British troops, and half actual sham, and it led to an attack on...
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In the late 1800s, seven sisters with musical talent and incredibly long hair made waves in the...
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The eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt was a firebrand who never shied away from the public...
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The famed Battle of the Alamo was toward the end of the Texas Revolution — a sort of pivot just...
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The American Hippo Ranch Plan, Part 2
Once the effort to import hippos to the U.S. got the backing of a politician, two men with wild...
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Henry Gerber and Chicago’s Society for Human Rights
In the 1920s, the Society for Human Rights was founded in Chicago with the intent to...
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A Brief History of Peanut Butter
Peanut butter got it's name in the 18th century, but it's been around in some form for hundreds...
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In the mid-1800s, Mary Ann Cotton is believed to have poisoned as many as 21 people with arsenic,...
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Marion Carstairs, who preferred the name Joe, was an early 20th-century heiress who bucked...
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When a French pastry chef complained to King Louis-Phillippe that his shop in Mexico was...
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The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
In fall of 1778, British forces shifted their efforts in the American Revolutionary War to the...
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We love to talk about shipwrecks, but Violet Jessop was a shipwreck survivor -- several times...
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Emmy Noether, Mathematics Trailblazer
In the early 20th century in Germany, Emmy Noether pursued a career in mathematics, despite many...
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Asia and the New World: An Interview with Dennis Carr
It's easy to think of globalization as a new invention, but it really has its roots in the 16th...
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In 1756, after a skirmish between the British East India Company and the nawab of Bengal, dozens...
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These are six (more) subjects frequently requested by listeners, but that aren't really workable...
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Franz Liszt was a pianist, a composer and a conductor, and basically the first rock star who...
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A Historically Inspired Gentleman's Wardrobe
Jason Merrill of Blackbird Finery joins Holly in the studio to talk about adopting the styles and...
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A Brief History of Redlining, Part 1
Redlining is a word used to describe a lot of different patterns of economic discrimination. But...
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