American History Tellers

30 Jul 2025

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The Scopes ""Monkey"" Trial was set against the backdrop of the roaring twenties, a time of both cul...

28 Jul 2025

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It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous he...

28 Jul 2025

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July 28, 1540. King Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, 32 years his jun...

23 Jul 2025

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On July 20, 1925, the trial of John Scopes continued in the stifling heat of the overcrowded county ...

16 Jul 2025

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On the sweltering morning of July 10, 1925, 200 newspaper reporters, newsreel film producers, and ra...

15 Jul 2025

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​​If you missed our announcement... we have a brand new podcast! Flesh and Code is a 6-part mini...

14 Jul 2025

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July 14, 1970. A group of Puerto Rican activists stage an occupation demanding better health care at...

Wed, 09 Jul

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In 1925, the famous politician and presidential contender William Jennings Bryan returned to the lim...

Wed, 02 Jul

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In 1906, a New York health department investigation into an outbreak of typhoid fever led to the dis...

Wed, 25 Jun

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After spending two years in forced isolation on a remote island in the East River, Mary Mallon fough...

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:00:00 -0000

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In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, whe...

Wed, 18 Jun

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In the fall of 1906, a mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever struck a wealthy New York family vacatio...

Mon, 16 Jun

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June 16, 1963. After months of rigorous training, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the ...

Wed, 11 Jun

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As president, Theodore Roosevelt pursued a progressive agenda. He worked to break up the monopolies ...

Wed, 04 Jun

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In 1913, Woodrow Wilson entered the White House, ready to fulfill his promise of a “New Freedom.”...

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:00:00 -0000

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Inspired by Wondery’s hit podcast Against the Odds—learn how to survive whatever nature can thro...

Mon, 02 Jun

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June 2, 1967. Benno Ohnesorg, a West German student, is killed by a police officer while attending a...

Wed, 28 May

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In 1909, William Howard Taft entered the White House, pledging to preserve and expand the Progressiv...

Wed, 21 May

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In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt discharged 167 soldiers of the all-Black 25th Infantry station...

Mon, 19 May

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May 19, 1649. After the English Civil War, an Act of Parliament makes England a Republic.You can lis...

Wed, 14 May

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In the early 1900s, a new generation of crusading writers and journalists captured the nation’s at...

Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 -0000

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It’s time to embark on a journey through history with "Oh What A Time…" a comedy history podcast...

Wed, 07 May

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In the late 1890s, Theodore Roosevelt emerged as a hero of the Spanish-American War and embarked on ...

Mon, 05 May

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May 5, 1862. Following the French invasion of Mexico, Mexican soldiers succeed in defending the town...

Wed, 30 Apr

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On November 4th, 1979, Iranian students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran intending to stage a shor...

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0000

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Lamont Jones leaves Dauphin County Prison for the last time, a free man ready to move on with his li...

Wed, 23 Apr

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In his final year in office, President Jimmy Carter was forced to navigate crisis after crisis, as A...

Mon, 21 Apr

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April 21, 1934. The Daily Mail publishes an alleged photo of the Loch Ness Monster, sparking an inte...

Wed, 16 Apr

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In 1979, after two years in office, President Jimmy Carter faced a series of crushing challenges: a ...

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 08:00:00 -0000

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When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless ...

Wed, 09 Apr

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In 1976, as America struggled to recover from the twin traumas of the Watergate scandal and the war ...

Mon, 07 Apr

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April 7, 1739. In York, England, the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged for stealing horses....

Wed, 02 Apr

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As America entered World War I, the suffrage movement split into a two-pronged attack. Alice Paul an...

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:00:00 -0000

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Kat Torres has the insta-perfect life. She is rich, gorgeous and not ashamed to share it. Her posts ...

Wed, 26 Mar

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In March 1913, thousands of suffrage activists converged on Washington, D.C. for a new form of prote...

Mon, 24 Mar

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March 24, 1603. After a reign of 44 years, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, bringing the Tudor dyn...

Wed, 19 Mar

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As the 20th century dawned, a new generation of women rose to take control of the suffrage cause. Th...

Wed, 12 Mar

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On Election Day 1872, Susan B. Anthony walked into a polling place in Rochester, New York and boldly...

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:00:00 -0000

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Monica Lewinsky has been a major reference in pop culture since she was 24 years old when a scandal ...

Mon, 10 Mar

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March 10, 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call in history,...

Wed, 05 Mar

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On July 19th, 1848, 300 female and male delegates gathered in a church in Seneca Falls, New York for...

Wed, 26 Feb

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Between 1870 and 1899, only twelve Black cadets were admitted to the US military academy at West Poi...

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:00:00 -0000

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You know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere? They could b...

Mon, 24 Feb

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February 24, 1739. The Persian leader Nader Shah wins a decisive victory in India at the Battle of K...

Wed, 19 Feb

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On an April morning in 1880, West Point cadet Johnson Chestnut Whittaker failed to appear at 6 a.m. ...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:30:00 -0000

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Get ready for a whole new vintage of true crime podcast with Blood Vines, available exclusively on W...

Wed, 12 Feb

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In May 1870, James Webster Smith arrived in West Point, New York, in the hopes of becoming the first...

Mon, 10 Feb

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February 10, 1972. When his music career begins to stagnate, David Bowie reinvents himself with an a...

Wed, 05 Feb

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In the spring of 1865, with the Civil War finally over, American lawmakers began to debate whether B...

Wed, 29 Jan

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In the winter of 1846, Irish immigrants in America began to hear troubling news from their home coun...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:00:00 -0000

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Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility p...

Mon, 27 Jan

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January 27, 1944. Soviet forces defeat the German army outside Leningrad, ending an 872-day siege.Yo...

Wed, 22 Jan

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Before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk in December 1903, other air enth...

Wed, 15 Jan

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In the summer of 1908, Wilbur Wright amazed crowds in France with his aerobatic flying demonstration...

Mon, 13 Jan

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January 13, 1842. William Brydon is the last man standing after a disastrous British army retreat du...

Wed, 08 Jan

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By 1903, inventors and adventurers in Britain and France were launching their own experimental aircr...

Wed, 01 Jan

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In the late-1890s, two brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, became obsessed with what Wilb...

Mon, 30 Dec

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December 30, 1941. In a rousing speech to the Canadian Parliament, British Prime Minister Winston Ch...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 09:00:00 -0000

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History That Doesn't' Suck is a seriously researched survey of American history told through enterta...

Wed, 25 Dec

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On January 15, 1919 a giant storage tank holding more than two million gallons of molasses collapsed...

Wed, 18 Dec

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Chinese laborers did much of the toughest work building the Central Pacific Railroad. That included ...

Mon, 16 Dec

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December 16, 1905. Rugby Union’s "Match of the Century" is played between Wales and the undefeated...

Wed, 11 Dec

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Great Britain and the United States have always enjoyed a special bond, and nowhere has that been mo...

Mon, 09 Dec

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On June 10th, 1983, the decomposing body of a well-dressed man was found in a desolate canyon near L...

Wed, 04 Dec

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In January 1869, leaders of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met in Washington, D.C. to discuss...

Wed, 27 Nov

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In early 1866, Central Pacific workers were stalled in California, facing the monumental task of bla...

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0000

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Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, are hidden stories and buried ...

Wed, 20 Nov

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In the summer of 1863, an unscrupulous businessman named Thomas Durant gained control of the Union P...

Mon, 18 Nov

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November 18, 1928. Mickey Mouse makes his big screen debut in Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie.You c...

Wed, 13 Nov

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In October 1860, railroad engineer Theodore Judah looked out across California’s Sierra Nevada ran...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:00:00 -0000

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The true crime history podcast American Criminal takes you inside the minds of our most no...

Wed, 06 Nov

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Many people are familiar with Powhatan, the Paramount Chief who ruled over a vast network of more th...

Wed, 30 Oct

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In April 1613, years of bloody warfare culminated in the kidnapping of the paramount chief Powhatan’...

Wed, 23 Oct

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In the summer of 1609, a hurricane struck a large English fleet bound for Virginia on a rescue missi...

Wed, 16 Oct

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In January 1608, fire blazed through the English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. Nearly every bui...

Mon, 14 Oct

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October 14, 1947. US Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the ...

Wed, 09 Oct

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In December 1606, three ships carrying 104 settlers left England and set sail for Virginia’s Chesa...

Wed, 02 Oct

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After the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, the ocean liner's fame only continued to grow. Today, Lindsay is...

Mon, 30 Sep

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September 30, 1520. Suleiman the Magnificent becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and sets his sigh...

Wed, 25 Sep

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On April 16, 1912, shocked survivors of the Titanic made their way to New York aboard the rescue shi...

Wed, 18 Sep

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Just past midnight on April 15th, 1912, only 20 minutes after striking an iceberg, the Titanic began...

Mon, 16 Sep

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September 16, 1920. A horse-drawn wagon explodes in the middle of New York’s financial district, k...

Wed, 11 Sep

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When the RMS Titanic launched in April of 1912, it was the pinnacle of luxury and the largest vessel...

Wed, 04 Sep

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In 1981, a gunman fired six shots at Ronald Reagan after the president gave a speech at a Washington...

Mon, 02 Sep

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September 2nd 1666: the Great Fire of London begins in a bakery on Pudding Lane, before quickly spre...

Wed, 28 Aug

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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo thro...

Wed, 21 Aug

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In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New Yo...

Mon, 19 Aug

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Description: August 19, 1991. A group of Communist Party hardliners attempt to save the collapsing S...

Wed, 14 Aug

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On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washing...

Wed, 07 Aug

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The job of guarding the President’s life belongs to the men and women of the United States Secret ...

Mon, 05 Aug

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August 5, 1969. Police in Atlanta, Georgia raid a screening of Andy Warhol’s underground film Lone...

Wed, 31 Jul

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There’s no job description for the role of First Lady of the United States. Betty Ford described i...

Wed, 24 Jul

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In the summer of 1989, Michelle Robinson was an up and coming lawyer at a Chicago law firm when she ...

Mon, 22 Jul

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July 22, 1942. The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, transporting hundreds of thousan...

Wed, 17 Jul

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In 1974, Betty Ford was thrust onto the world stage when Richard Nixon resigned and her husband, Ger...

Wed, 10 Jul

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In 1905, Eleanor Roosevelt married her distant cousin Franklin, beginning a remarkable and complicat...

Wed, 03 Jul

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In 1842, Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois after a stormy romance. Despite ...

Wed, 26 Jun

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In 1757, 26-year-old Martha Dandridge Custis was the wealthiest widow in Virginia when she caught th...

Mon, 24 Jun

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June 24, 1535. A radical political uprising comes to an end when the city of Münster falls to an Bi...

Wed, 19 Jun

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In the spring of 1775, Benjamin Franklin left London for America after years of fruitless attempts t...

Wed, 12 Jun

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In 1723, a teenage Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia ready to reinvent himself. He was a pen...

Mon, 10 Jun

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 June 10, 1692. Accusations of witchcraft spark hysteria in a town in Massachusetts, leading to...

Wed, 05 Jun

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The new book from American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, ...

Wed, 29 May

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Allan Pinkerton started the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to catch robbers, counterfeiters and...

Mon, 27 May

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May 27, 1943: A B-24 bomber crashes in the Pacific Ocean, beginning a two year ordeal at sea and in ...

Wed, 22 May

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By the late 1800s, the Pinkerton Detective Agency faced public criticism for their anti-labor practi...

Wed, 15 May

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In the mid-1870s the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s fame was growing, and founder Allan Pinkerton be...

Mon, 13 May

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May 13th 1981: Pope John Paul II is shot in a mysterious assassination plot with potential ties to t...

Wed, 08 May

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In the early 1850s, Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton stumbled upon a counterfeiting operation whil...

Wed, 01 May

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After the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, America scrambled to assemble boot ca...

Mon, 29 Apr

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April 29, 1996. New musical Rent premieres on Broadway, only a few months after the death of the sho...

Wed, 24 Apr

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In the summer of 1918, the U.S. successfully led a critical offensive in northern France, finally gi...

Wed, 17 Apr

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In January 1918, after months of preparation and planning, American troops finally started to arrive...

Mon, 15 Apr

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April 15, 1989: A crowd crush at a soccer game at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England leads t...

Wed, 10 Apr

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In the spring of 1917 the U.S. moved closer to entering the Great War. German submarines resumed att...

Wed, 03 Apr

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In June 1914, a gunman assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungar...

Mon, 01 Apr

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April 1, 1997. The Hale-Bopp Comet reaches the closest point to the sun on its long loop through spa...

Wed, 27 Mar

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After 18 months and over two thousand miles, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery had reached the ...

Wed, 20 Mar

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In the spring of 1805, Lewis and Clark resumed their journey up the Missouri River in search of the ...

Fri, 15 Mar

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March 18, 1314. Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the sta...

Wed, 13 Mar

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In 1803, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began a westward journey that would transform A...

Wed, 06 Mar

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In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped her enslaver in Maryland and freed herself. Over the next several ye...

Wed, 28 Feb

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In December 1850, Harriet Tubman saved three family members from an auction block in a daring rescue...

Wed, 21 Feb

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On the morning of April 16th, 1848, dozens of Washington, D.C. slaveowners woke up to find that thei...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0000

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February 19, 197 CE. Septimius Severus' victory at the Battle of Lugdunum finally establishes him as...

Wed, 14 Feb

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In the 1830s, abolitionism became a political force to be reckoned with. In the face of harassment a...

Wed, 07 Feb

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In the early 1800s, slavery rapidly expanded across the American South. But each year, thousands of ...

Wed, 31 Jan

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Following the success of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. sought to develop a potentially more powerf...

Wed, 24 Jan

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In Spring of 1945, the tides of World War 2 turned. Germany surrendered to the Allies, but Japan vow...

Mon, 22 Jan

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January 22, 1879. After years of displacement, the northern Cheyenne, led by Chief Morning Star, fac...

Wed, 17 Jan

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In Spring of 1943, hundreds of scientists and technicians moved to a remote location in the mou...

Wed, 10 Jan

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In December 1938, a team of German physicists achieved an astonishing scientific breakthrough: they ...

Wed, 03 Jan

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In 1948, James Baldwin left for France, hoping to find an escape from the racism he experienced in A...

Wed, 27 Dec

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In 1949, aspiring writer Nelle Harper Lee moved from her home in small-town Alabama to New York City...

Wed, 20 Dec

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Born into poverty in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin rose to become a celebrated novelist, essayist, p...

Mon, 18 Dec

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December 18, 1972. After peace talks break down, US President Richard Nixon announces the start of t...

Wed, 13 Dec

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Growing up in the Salinas Valley of Northern California, John Steinbeck dreamed of becoming a profes...

Wed, 06 Dec

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In the late 1850s, a young man named Samuel Clemens started out piloting steamboats on the Mississip...

Mon, 04 Dec

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December 4, 1991. After 64 years dominating the skies, a series of poor financial decisions forces P...

Wed, 29 Nov

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In 1840, eight-year-old Louisa May Alcott moved to the small town of Concord, Massachusetts with her...

Wed, 22 Nov

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In February 1826, 17-year-old Edgar Allan Poe was a promising student at the University of Virginia....

Mon, 20 Nov

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November 20, 1992. After a year of bad press for Britain's royals, Windsor castle catches fire, rais...

Wed, 15 Nov

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After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire reduced the city to rubble and ash, reporters fanne...

Wed, 08 Nov

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In the wake of a devastating earthquake that rocked the city of San Francisco, thousands of people w...

Wed, 01 Nov

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Less than 24 hours after a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, fires were raging across the...

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In the early morning hours of April 18th, 1906, residents of San Francisco were awakened by the viol...

Wed, 18 Oct

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In the midst of the public hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials, a respected Puritan woman na...

Mon, 16 Oct

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October 16, 1869. An American trickster masterminds the discovery of a mysterious petrified giant in...

Wed, 11 Oct

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By September 1692, the witch panic in Salem, Massachusetts had sent 11 women and men to the gallows....

Wed, 04 Oct

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In May 1692, William Phips, the new royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, sailed into Bost...

Wed, 27 Sep

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By the first week of March 1692, three Salem women had been jailed for witchcraft, and accusations c...

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In January 1692, two young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts began behaving strangely. They scre...

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As the nation’s factories and shipyards ramped up production for the war, the demand for labor exp...

Wed, 06 Sep

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On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese warplanes rained death and destruction down on the U.S. na...

Wed, 30 Aug

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In 1970, a 22-year-old woman in Texas named Norma McCorvey tried and failed to get an abortion from ...

Wed, 23 Aug

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The morning of Nov. 8, 2000, Americans woke up to an undecided election. Pollsters had predicted a c...

Wed, 16 Aug

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Before the 1950s, the Supreme Court was best known as an institution that adhered to the status quo....

Wed, 09 Aug

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Through most of 1941, as fighting raged across Europe, the United States held back from entering the...

Wed, 02 Aug

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After the Civil War, America began to rebuild a shattered nation. For the first time, the country co...

Wed, 26 Jul

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In the early 1800s, the United States was growing rapidly, seeking land and resources for its expand...

Wed, 19 Jul

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After the War of Independence, the new American government created the Supreme Court to be the final...

Wed, 12 Jul

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After Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877, Reconstruction officially came to an end, and ...

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In 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden vied for the presidency. But when...

Wed, 28 Jun

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On Easter Sunday, 1873, an armed white mob battled a Black militia over control of a courthouse in a...

Wed, 21 Jun

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In 1870, the ratification of the 15th Amendment enshrined Black men’s right to vote in the Constit...

Wed, 14 Jun

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In the spring of 1867, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the Republican-controlled Congress pa...

Wed, 07 Jun

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In December 1865, the first postwar Congress convened in Washington, D.C. With Black Southerners sti...

Wed, 31 May

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In the spring of 1865, the United States celebrated the end of four years of Civil War. As American ...

Wed, 24 May

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By the early 1970s the United Farm Workers had won a series of successes in California and were atte...

Wed, 17 May

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In 1964, the United States finally ended the controversial Bracero Program, which had flooded Americ...

Wed, 10 May

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In the 1940s and ‘50s, farm laborers in California, many of them Mexican and Filipino, faced low w...

Wed, 03 May

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The 1919 Molasses Flood was a terrifying and telling moment in the history of Boston’s North End. ...

Wed, 26 Apr

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On January 15, 1919 a giant storage tank holding more than two million gallons of molasses collapsed...

Wed, 19 Apr

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After she was deposed by powerful American business interests, Hawai’i’s Queen Liliʻuokalani li...

Wed, 12 Apr

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On December 7, 1941, Hawai’i was hit by one of the most unexpected military assaults in modern war...

Wed, 05 Apr

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After Hawai’i became a U.S. Territory in 1900, tourism to the islands exploded. Luxury steamships ...

Wed, 29 Mar

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In the early 1900s, an enterprising young American named James Dole introduced pineapples to a windy...

Wed, 22 Mar

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In 1893 the independent island kingdom of Hawaiʻi flourished under the leadership of its monarch, Q...

Wed, 15 Mar

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Was Aaron Burr raising an army to invade Mexico? Plotting to break apart the Union? Overthrow the go...

Wed, 08 Mar

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In the summer of 1807, Richmond, Virginia hosted the most sensational trial in the young nation’s ...

Wed, 01 Mar

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In August 1806, Aaron Burr began the final preparations for his mysterious expedition to the western...

Wed, 22 Feb

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In the summer of 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr was wanted for the murder of Alexander Hamilton. Th...

Wed, 15 Feb

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In July 1804, Aaron Burr faced political rival Alexander Hamilton on the cliffs of Weehawken, New Je...

Wed, 08 Feb

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News of the 1848 discovery of gold in California spread quickly, and thousands of Chinese migrants f...

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In the early 1850s, as people continued to flood West, California’s booming cities experienced rap...

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For white settlers, the Gold Rush offered a chance for fortune, but for California’s Native inhabi...

Wed, 18 Jan

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In early 1849, thousands of gold-hungry Americans began pouring into California from the eastern Uni...

Wed, 11 Jan

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​​After the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, hundreds of thousands of prospectors p...

Wed, 04 Jan

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The job of guarding the President’s life belongs to the men and women of the United States Secret ...

Wed, 28 Dec

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In 1981, a gunman fired six shots at Ronald Reagan after the president gave a speech at a Washington...

Wed, 21 Dec

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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo thro...

Wed, 14 Dec

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In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New Yo...

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The Age of Jackson was a time of intense change and tremendous growth in the United States. But it w...

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In 1845, newly inaugurated President James Polk made America’s westward expansion a centerpiece of...

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In 1814, British troops burned down the White House. That fire would be extinguished, and the Execut...

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In 1927, a slow-moving catastrophe like the Great Mississippi Flood was perfect material for a relat...

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Herbert Hoover’s management of the flood relief garnered widespread praise and put him in position...

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Early in the morning on April 22nd, 1927, flood waters from a break in the Mound Landing levee enter...

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In the winter and spring of 1927, record-setting rain fell across the central United States. The Mis...

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The Lewis and Clark expedition changed the course of American history. But after its bold, charismat...

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For Alice Paul and other leading white suffragists, image was important. They published their own ne...

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As America entered World War I, the suffrage movement split into a two-pronged attack. Alice Paul an...

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On Election Day 1872, Susan B. Anthony walked into a polling place in Rochester, New York and boldly...

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On July 19th, 1848, 300 female and male delegates gathered in a church in Seneca Falls, New York for...

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By 1876, criminal boss Big Jim Kennally was ready to put his Lincoln body-snatching plan into motion...

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By 1876, criminal boss Big Jim Kennally was ready to put his Lincoln body-snatching plan into motion...

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In the 1870s, a gang from Chicago hatched one of the most audacious criminal plots in American histo...

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Billy the Kid has become one of the most iconic figures of the American West. But many details of hi...

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With the bloody Lincoln County War finally over, Billy the Kid tried to make a truce with his arch e...

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In 1877, Billy the Kid was saved from a life of crime by a wealthy Englishman named John Tunstall, w...

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Henry McCarty was born in an Irish slum in New York City in 1859. By the time he died from a lawman’...

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The Philippine-American War marked the emergence of America as a global power. But what has been the...

Wed, 29 Dec

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With the war officially over, William Howard Taft took over authority as the Governor of the Philipp...

Wed, 22 Dec

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In March 1901, American forces launched a daring raid to capture the Filipino revolutionary leader E...

Wed, 15 Dec

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In 1898, America’s victory over Spanish forces in the Philippines suddenly thrust the United State...

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On February 4th, 1899, war broke out between the United States and the Philippines. The two nations ...

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Not every case of treason is open and shut. With some accused traitors, questions of their guilt or ...

Wed, 24 Nov

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On June 13, 1985, Aldrich Ames packed up six pounds of top secret documents into a plastic bag and w...

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In September 1949, the world was shocked to learn that the Soviet Union had conducted its first nucl...

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On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth stepped into the presidential box at Washington’...

Wed, 03 Nov

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Early in the Revolutionary War, Major General Benedict Arnold built a reputation as a courageous com...

Wed, 27 Oct

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The Roaring 20s are often described as a time of optimism and decadence, teeming with flappers, jazz...

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On a misty morning in May 1927, Charles Lindbergh climbed into the cramped cockpit of his single eng...

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In 1921, Republican President Warren G. Harding entered the White House, ushering in a new era of co...

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In the 1920s, Americans moved to the city in droves, and a new, diverse generation sparked an era of...

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In 1919, American soldiers returned from the battlefields of Europe to face a nation torn apart by a...

Wed, 22 Sep

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Alaska: big, open, frozen and wild. In 1867, the acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire was w...

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In 1914, America’s National Parks had a problem: no one was using them. And those few that were fa...

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In the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the city of San Francisco was torn apart by...

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Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was atop a mountain when he heard the news: an assassin’s bullet...

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Yellowstone was our nation’s first national park. Its strange, wondrous landscapes were perfect fo...

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America's national parks are truly among our country's greatest treasures. But many of these beautif...

Wed, 11 Aug

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The 1904 St. Louis Olympics were marred by controversy and poorly organized events like the marathon...

Wed, 04 Aug

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In the summer of 1904, the young women of the Fort Shaw Indian School basketball team took the St. L...

Wed, 28 Jul

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In 1904, St. Louis was thrust into the national spotlight, as it played host to both the World’s F...

Wed, 21 Jul

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In the late 1800s, European fascination with the culture of ancient Greece, and a growing interest i...

Wed, 14 Jul

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The mystery of what became of the first English colonists has baffled historians for centuries. But ...

Wed, 07 Jul

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On April 26, 1587, 117 colonists sailed from England to establish a permanent settlement on the east...

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In the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth the First of England was locked in a battle for global dominanc...

Fri, 25 Jun

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In the mid-1800s, the United States was a young nation awash with mercenaries, adventurers, and entr...

Wed, 23 Jun

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Like many Americans, Anneliese Bruner didn’t hear about the Tulsa Race Massacre growing up. But wh...

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On June 2, 1921, thousands of black Tulsans interned at the Tulsa Fairgrounds woke under armed guard...

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On the night of Tuesday, May 31, 1921, a violent white mob attacked the prosperous Black neighborhoo...

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As Black teenager Dick Rowland sat in a jail cell at the Tulsa courthouse, news of his arrest flew t...

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In 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma boasted one of the nation’s most prosperous African-American communities....

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On November 24th, 1971, a man on a Boeing 727 bound for Seattle handed a flight attendant a note tha...

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John Brown has been called many things: fanatic, hero, terrorist, martyr, zealot. Some of his contem...

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On October 17th, 1859, John Brown was barricaded inside the federal armory at Harpers Ferry with his...

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In December 1858, John Brown was back in Kansas and Missouri, making headlines for dramatic and dead...

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On the night of May 24th, 1856, radical abolitionist John Brown and seven of his followers crept alo...

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In the 1850s, the United States was lurching toward a crisis over slavery -- and abolitionist John B...

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Wed, 31 Mar

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The Vietnam War was one of the most divisive conflicts in American history. Over 58,000 Americans di...

Wed, 24 Mar

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Few historic residences are more synonymous with their owners than Graceland. Purchased by Elvis Pre...

Wed, 17 Mar

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In the early 1920s, San Francisco was a picturesque city on a narrow, isolated peninsula. Known for ...

Wed, 10 Mar

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In 1927, workers began blasting granite rock off a towering cliff in South Dakota’s Black Hills. I...

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For centuries, sailors and merchants dreamed of finding a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific O...

Wed, 24 Feb

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It’s perhaps the most iconic of American monuments -- the Statue of Liberty. A towering 305-foot s...

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After the 1871 fire destroyed a third of their city, Chicagoans wanted to do more than rebuild. They...

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As dawn broke on October 10, 1871, the dazed survivors of the Great Chicago Fire stumbled through th...

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Just before midnight on October 8, 1871, the inferno that had ravaged Chicago’s West Side leapt th...

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In 1871, Chicago was the fastest growing city in the world. Built almost entirely of wood, it was al...

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As America prepares to swear in a new president, we’ll look back to the inaugurations of the past....

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Once the coal miners lost the Battle of Blair Mountain, the story of their uprising was suppressed, ...

Wed, 06 Jan

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The Coal Wars reached an explosive climax in August 1921, as thousands of miners furious over the de...

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In May 1920, Sheriff Sid Hatfield won the loyalty of Mingo County’s miners after a deadly gun batt...

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In March 1913, famed labor activist Mother Jones was locked up in a shack in Pratt, West Virginia, s...

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In the early 20th century, coal was the fuel that powered the nation. But the men who mined it in th...

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Throughout our series, we've seen how social movements and partisan politics helped influence the de...

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In 1970, a 22-year-old woman in Texas named Norma McCorvey tried and failed to get an abortion from ...

Wed, 25 Nov

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The morning of Nov. 8, 2000, Americans woke up to an undecided election. Pollsters had predicted a c...

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Before the 1950s, the Supreme Court was best known as an institution that adhered to the status quo....

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Through most of 1941, as fighting raged across Europe, the United States held back from entering the...

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After the Civil War, America began to rebuild a shattered nation. For the first time, the country co...

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Wed, 21 Oct

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After the War of Independence, the new American government created the Supreme Court to be have the ...

Wed, 14 Oct

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The year 1968 marked a watershed in American politics. Anti-war protests were roiling the country. C...

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The 1929 stock market crash saw 14 billion dollars vanish in a matter of hours — and with it, the ...

Wed, 30 Sep

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As the Civil War came to a close, the government set its sights once again on the future of the Unit...

Wed, 23 Sep

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The United States won the The Mexican–American War in the 1840s, and with it vast new stretches of...

Wed, 16 Sep

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Andrew Jackson lost the 1824 presidential election to John Quincy Adams through what some called a “...

Wed, 09 Sep

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Wed, 02 Sep

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Throughout our series, corporate giants and their exploitation of workers was disturbing evidence of...

Wed, 26 Aug

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In the spring of 1894, hundreds of unemployed workers trudged through rain and snow on a 400-mile tr...

Wed, 19 Aug

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As the century came to a close, labor unrest reached explosive new heights. Industrial expansion mad...

Wed, 12 Aug

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Amid the glamor and growth of the Gilded Age, racism and anti-immigrant hostility swept the nation. ...

Wed, 05 Aug

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Wed, 29 Jul

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Wed, 22 Jul

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In 1869, America connected its vast, sprawling territory with its most ambitious project to date: th...

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When the events of Stonewall happened in 1969, Eric Marcus was just a boy away at a New Jersey summe...

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After a late-night police raid on the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, the LGBTQ community fought back in...

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Resistance at restaurants in San Francisco and Philadelphia showcased the building tension as trans ...

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In the summer of 1969, a police raid on the Stonewall Inn sparked a riot on the streets of Greenwich...

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JFK said that nothing in the 1960s was "...more impressive to mankind, or more important for the lon...

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In times of crisis, Americans had always put their confidence in their country’s superiority in po...

Wed, 27 May

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Information sharing was normal in the global scientific community, but when it came to rockets, norm...

Wed, 20 May

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Remember Werner von Braun? We talked a little bit about him in our Cold War series. He was in charge...

Wed, 13 May

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As the nation’s factories and shipyards ramped up production for the war, the demand for labor exp...

Wed, 06 May

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On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese warplanes rained death and destruction down on the U.S. na...

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In 1799, the U.S. government imposed a new tax on houses, land, and slaves to fund an expanded milit...

Wed, 22 Apr

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In February 1831, a solar eclipse caused the skies to darken over the isolated backwater of Southamp...

Wed, 15 Apr

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As a new century dawned on the United States, an enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel began planning a ...

Wed, 08 Apr

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In 1794, anti-government protests grew into an all-out rebellion, and President Washington faced his...

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Only a few years after Shays’ Rebellion was suppressed, a new revolt broke out in western Pennsylv...

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Tensions reached a climax in the freezing winter of 1787, as Daniel Shays and 1,500 rebel soldiers s...

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The dust had barely settled on the American Revolution when new unrest erupted in western Massachuse...

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In light of growing concerns about the coronavirus, we’re revisiting an episode we ran last spring...

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New archaeological evidence suggests mass graves holding the remains of victims of the Tulsa Race Ma...

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UCLA environmental historian Jon Christensen discusses Los Angeles, its never-quenched thirst for wa...

Wed, 19 Feb

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With the failure of the Watterson brothers’ banks, the Owens Valley community was forced to abando...

Wed, 12 Feb

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After years of letting their water be used by the city of Los Angeles, the farmers and ranchers of t...

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By 1912, the Los Angeles aqueduct project was nearing completion. But as it approached the finish li...

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By 1907, the city of Los Angeles had found a solution to its water problem. Two hundred miles north ...

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By the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles had grown from a dusty, crime-ridden pueblo into a...

Wed, 18 Dec

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The Civil War forced the warring families of Clay County into an uneasy truce. The Garrards, Whites,...

Wed, 11 Dec

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The longest and bloodiest feud in American history erupted in the 1840s in Clay County, Kentucky —...

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In September 2019 Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren invoked the memory ...

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In the wake of the biggest workplace catastrophe in the city of New York, the survivors of the Trian...

Wed, 06 Nov

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Two years after the labor strikes that shook the city of New York, the workers of Triangle factory r...

Wed, 30 Oct

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Inspired by the labor strikes at Triangle and other factories in Lower Manhattan, more than 30,000 g...

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On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Manhattan, claiming the li...

Wed, 16 Oct

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New York City was founded on the Dutch principles of tolerance and capitalism, both of which were ne...

Wed, 09 Oct

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In the years after Adrian Van der Donck won a municipal charter for New Amsterdam, and under Peter S...

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Peter Stuyvesant was fresh from losing a leg in battle against the Spanish when he arrived in Manhat...

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Just as it was becoming a New World success story, disaster came to New Amsterdam. Willem Kieft, the...

Wed, 18 Sep

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New Amsterdam was a desperate place. For the first decade of its existence, the Dutch city on the ti...

Wed, 11 Sep

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Twelve years after Henry Hudson's 1609 trip charting the Hudson River, the Dutch used his voyage as ...

Wed, 04 Sep

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In 1609, a headstrong English sea captain named Henry Hudson set out on behalf of the Dutch East Ind...

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The murder of Emmett Till galvanized the nascent civil rights movement. But the full story of what h...

Wed, 21 Aug

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The Alsos mission had a hard-charging leader in Boris Pash and an eccentric band of recruits. But if...

Wed, 14 Aug

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As the Nazis inched closer to acquiring a nuclear weapon, panic grew among the Allied forces. The Al...

Wed, 07 Aug

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By mid-1944, the Allies’ fight to track down and stop the Nazi atomic program had met with failure...

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In early 1944, the Allies developed a desperate plan to destroy several massive bunkers in Nazi-cont...

Wed, 24 Jul

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The discovery of uranium fission in Nazi Germany in 1938 terrified Allied nuclear scientists—espec...

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The Second World War ended with two black mushroom clouds rising over the scorched remains of Hirosh...

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The Statue of Liberty is one of America’s most iconic monuments to freedom. As we head into the Fo...

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Nearly a century after a white mob leveled the affluent Tulsa district known as Black Wall Street, h...

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On June 2, 1921, thousands of black Tulsans interned at the Tulsa Fairgrounds woke under armed guard...

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By midnight on Tuesday, May 31, 1921, some Greenwood residents assumed the riot was calming down. Ma...

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As Dick Rowland sat in a jail cell at the Tulsa courthouse on Tuesday, the news of his arrest and ru...

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Between 1838 and 1890, thousands of African Americans moved to Oklahoma, brought there as Cherokee s...

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This episode is brought to you by Wondery in partnership with National Geographic in anticipation of...

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This episode is brought to you by Wondery in partnership with National Geographic in anticipation of...

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Pulitzer Prize winner. National Book Award winner. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Today Da...

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On March 8, 1971, seven ordinary Americans broke into a poorly guarded FBI regional office in Media,...

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Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI carried out more than 2,000 top secret spying operations aimed at Ame...

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The rise of fascism and World War II shifted the FBI’s focus in the 1940s from fighting midwestern...

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During the mid-1930s, the FBI’s public relations department had effectively changed the image of i...

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J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI when he was just 29 years old. His orders? Clean up the B...

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By the turn of the century, radical anarchists were becoming a growing -- and volatile -- political ...

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“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord.” That’s the opening line of “The B...

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As legal challenges to his New Deal programs mounted, President Roosevelt and his attorney general d...

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After two of President Roosevelt’s closest advisors competed to create a new federal jobs program,...

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The Great Depression wasn’t the only crisis facing the country when Franklin Roosevelt took office...

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With the country was still hobbled by the Depression, New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt pr...

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Factories have shut down, banks have failed, and millions are out of work. As the Depression worsens...

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The Roaring Twenties came to a screeching halt on October 29, 1929, with the collapse of the U.S. st...

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"Those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it." On today’s show, we’ll consider ...

Wed, 06 Feb

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A special series with Legal Wars. The whole world was watching, and that’s exactly what the defend...

Wed, 30 Jan

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A special series with Legal Wars. In 1969, the war in the streets became a war in the courtroom. The...

Wed, 23 Jan

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A special series with our sibling show Legal Wars. The 1968 Democratic National Convention attracted...

Wed, 02 Jan

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We live in historic times, but how do they compare to that other tumultuous era of American history ...

Wed, 26 Dec

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The year 1968 marked a watershed in American politics. Anti-war protests were roiling the country. C...

Wed, 19 Dec

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The 1929 stock market crash saw 14 billion dollars vanish in a matter of hours — and with it, the ...

Wed, 12 Dec

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As the Civil War came to a close, the government set its sights once again on the future of the Unit...

Wed, 05 Dec

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The United States won the The Mexican–American War in the 1840s, and with it vast new stretches of...

Wed, 28 Nov

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Andrew Jackson lost the 1824 presidential election to John Quincy Adams through what some called a “...

Wed, 21 Nov

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In the earliest days of the United States, there was no such thing as an organized political party. ...

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:00:00 -0000

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Named after one of the greatest U.S. presidents, the Lincoln Motor Company has become as ingrained i...

Wed, 14 Nov

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We conclude our series on the American Civil Right Movement with an interview with a woman who was t...

Wed, 07 Nov

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Seeking to build upon the gains of the early 1960s, Civil Rights activists pushed forward on a serie...

Wed, 31 Oct

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As the Civil Rights movement entered the landmark years of 1963 and 1964, activists had faced many c...

Wed, 24 Oct

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As the Civil Rights movement entered the Sixties, a new generation of activists took the fore. Frust...

Wed, 17 Oct

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After the Brown V. Board of Education ruling, civil rights activists had legal standing to desegrega...

Wed, 10 Oct

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In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal, on a “separate but equal” basi...

Wed, 03 Oct

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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, freeing the slave...

Wed, 26 Sep

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In 1980, Jimmy Carter signed into law the The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, or AN...

Wed, 19 Sep

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Alaska: big, open, frozen and wild. In 1867, the acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire was w...

Wed, 12 Sep

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In 1914, America’s National Parks had a problem: no one was using them. And those few that were fa...

Wed, 05 Sep

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In the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the city of San Francisco was torn apart by...

Wed, 29 Aug

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Put out to pasture, thinking his political career over, Theodore Roosevelt was atop a mountain when ...

Wed, 22 Aug

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Yellowstone was our nation’s first national park. Its strange, wondrous landscapes were perfect fo...

Wed, 15 Aug

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America's greatest National Parks are truly one of our country's greatest treasures. But many beauti...

Wed, 08 Aug

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We've come to the end of our series on the American Revolution, but we can't say goodbye without say...

Wed, 01 Aug

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Millions immigrated to the United States after its founding, entranced with the promise of a better ...

Wed, 25 Jul

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The Revolution was fought for freedom, at least in name. Calls for freedom filled the air. No taxati...

Wed, 18 Jul

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In 1788, the hot gossip in posh British circles was all about France and America. For their friends ...

Wed, 11 Jul

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It’s 1786. For two years the city of Philadelphia has been celebrating its independence. For citiz...

Wed, 04 Jul

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In 1776, the British Under Secretary of State for the American Colonies was giddy. The Americans nee...

Wed, 27 Jun

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It’s 1754, and the British had developed thirteen colonies along the eastern seaboard of the Ameri...

Wed, 20 Jun

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If you lived in an American city at the turn of the century, you got all of your news from a single ...

Wed, 06 Jun

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JFK said that nothing in the 1960s was "...more impressive to mankind, or more important for the lon...

Wed, 30 May

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In times of crisis, Americans had always put their confidence in their country’s superiority ...

Wed, 23 May

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Information sharing was normal in the global scientific community, but when it came to rockets, norm...

Wed, 16 May

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Remember Werner von Braun? We talked a little bit about him in our Cold War series. He was in charge...

Thu, 10 May 2018 07:05:00 -0000

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The phone in your hand is more powerful than all of the computers that put a man on the moon, combin...

Wed, 02 May

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“Manifest Destiny” is a uniquely American idea. The phrase captured the sense of inevitability—...

Wed, 25 Apr

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During the last years of Jackson's presidency, the economy flourished. The national debt was paid in...

Wed, 18 Apr

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During his political rise, Jackson distinguished himself with his ability to exact ruthless military...

Wed, 11 Apr

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From the beginning, Jackson's administration was riddled with controversy. Citizens mobbed the White...

Wed, 04 Apr

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In the summer of 1817, President James Monroe toured the country in an effort to unite the ever-grow...

Wed, 28 Mar

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In August 1814, the White House burned. A fire that would eventually consume the entire nation in Ci...

Wed, 21 Mar

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Do you know the record for the longest ratification period of any constitutional amendment? Lillian ...

Wed, 14 Mar

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The people had spoken: They wanted beer, and they wanted it now, but not just for drinking. Protesto...

Wed, 07 Mar

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Closing Time by Daniel Francis provides a good account of the border wars and smuggling across the n...

Wed, 28 Feb

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The rise of the speakeasy was one of many unintended consequences of Prohibition - and others were m...

Wed, 21 Feb

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While Prohibition was successful in closing the saloon, it didn’t quench America’s thirst. Enter...

Wed, 14 Feb

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When a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania on Friday, May 7th, 1915, Americans found two new e...

Wed, 07 Feb

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On January 17, 1920, the United States passed the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, ushering in...

Wed, 31 Jan

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We’re closing out our series on the Cold War with two interviews with fascinating historians. Firs...

Wed, 24 Jan

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In the early 1970s, while trying to wind down the war in Vietnam, President Richard Nixon made overt...

Wed, 17 Jan

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America sent a man to the moon in 1969, and with Neil Armstrong’s first steps, the United States p...

Wed, 10 Jan

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Americans were desperate to find hope in the shadow of the bomb.Miracle cures, cheap energy, and eve...

Wed, 03 Jan

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What is the United States to do when direct conflict with the Soviet Union promises almost certain a...

Wed, 03 Jan

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Forget trenches, infantry and tanks. The United States and Soviet Union fought the Cold War with ide...

Wed, 03 Jan

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For nearly 50 years, the United States and Soviet Union waged a global war of ideas fueled by politi...

Wed, 13 Dec

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