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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Local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck to look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more.
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History Matters: Tenez!
It’s Scott’s birthday! He and Aaron look back on the etymological origin of the word “tennis” and the invention of the modern dishwasher.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: If You’ve Ever Been Subject To Long, Rambling Speeches
This week in history: the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge sparks the Revolutionary War, and a North Carolina lawmaker inspires a new word.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: Godspeed, Enos
This week in history: legendary astronaut John Glenn orbits the earth – with the help of a chimp named Enos.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: One-Hit Wonders, Civil Rights, and Speaking Truth to Power
This week: Grant Wood and Abraham Lincoln are born, and a racist incident in South Carolina sparks major civil-rights reform.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: Signs of Spring
This week in history: two trailblazing 19th-century female doctors, the Fifteenth Amendment, and the long-neglected groundhog.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: Anyone Can Stand Up
This week in history: Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, and the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-in begins.
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Read MoreHistory Matters: Saying the Unpopular Thing
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was this week – a reminder that social movements are rarely, if ever, popular in their own time.
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