History Matters
History Matters: Bell of Rights Day
This week: the Bill of Rights is ratified, the Boston Tea Party occurs, the Wrights take flight, and famous refugees arrive in America.
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History Matters: There Were Bells on a Hill
This week in history: Brian Epstein becomes the Beatles’ manager, and the Bill of Rights becomes part of the Constitution.
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History Matters: Always Fun To Do The Impossible
This week in history: Walt Disney is born, Rosa Parks takes a seat for justice, and a chimpanzee blazes a trail to space.
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History Matters: What The Cat Dragged In
This week in history marks the debut of two famous mice: Mickey Mouse in 1928, and the computer mouse in the late 1960s.
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History Matters: Flying Off In Your Stupid Biplane
This week, Scott and Aaron remember a pioneering woman aviator, the invention of the grocery cart, and the largest iceberg ever spotted.
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History Matters: The Backboard Story
This week in history: James Naismith invents basketball, and a Depression-era program helps build a museum in Hillsborough.
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History Matters: Liberty Still Has a Pulse
This week, Scott and Aaron remember a mock funeral for “liberty” that Wilmingtonians staged in 1765 to protest the Stamp Act.
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History Matters: The Most Bravest, Gutsiest Bunch
This week in history: North Carolina women publicly stand up to Great Britain in 1774, in a boycott called the “Edenton Tea Party.”
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History Matters: Fashion Maven of the Nineteenth Century
This week, Aaron and Scott remember Abraham Lincoln’s beard and the inventor of the yellow light at intersections.
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History Matters: You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet
This week in history: “The Jazz Singer” is released in theaters, the first-ever “talkie” movie with synchronized sound.
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