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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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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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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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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This week in history: an inventor cashes in on his greatest invention – just in time for the patent to be rescinded.

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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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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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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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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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This week in history: legendary astronaut John Glenn orbits the earth – with the help of a chimp named Enos.

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