History Matters
History Matters: Whoop-De-Doo For Charles Lindbergh
Scott and Aaron look back on Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and a third pilot who’s more famous for her time in the water.
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History Matters: A Golden Corral of History
This week marks the anniversary of the 1771 Battle of Alamance and the start of the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
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History Matters: Where You Are in the Universe
This week in history: the Morehead Planetarium opens in Chapel Hill, and a bad student paper leads to a Constitutional amendment.
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History Matters: Live In The Along
This week, Scott and Aaron remember poet Gwendolyn Brooks, who became the first Black writer to win a Pulitzer Prize this week in 1950.
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History Matters: Something in the Water
For Earth Week, Scott and Aaron talk environmental protection – including the 1920 dedication of the Grand Canyon as a national park.
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History Matters: I Heart Huckaby
Scott and Aaron remember the vice-principal at Little Rock Central High School who protected Black students after integration in 1957.
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History Matters: Literally Playing With Fire
This week: the first sale of matches, the start of the Civil War, and a discussion about those all-important small events in history.
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History Matters: Hyman Lipman’s Last Laugh
This week in history: an inventor cashes in on his greatest invention – just in time for the patent to be rescinded.
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History Matters: Saint Patrick, Mister Rogers, and Sergeant Stubby
This week in history: Scott and Aaron remember St. Patrick and Mr. Rogers – as well as a dog who became celebrated as a World War I hero.
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History Matters: Telephones To Help The Deaf?
This week in history: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone, Juliette Low founds the Girl Scouts, and the 1918 flu epidemic begins.
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