History Matters
History Matters: 1920, That Crazy Summer
Scott and Aaron recall the passage of the 19th Amendment – and a little-known Revolutionary War battle in North Carolina.
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History Matters: Written By The Victors
This week in history: natural preservationists, aviation pioneers, English settlers – and Aaron’s plan for hang-gliding at University Place.
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History Matters: Especially in August
This week, Scott and Aaron remember Richard Nixon’s resignation over Watergate – and Jesse Owens’ triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
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History Matters: Strange Connections
Scott and Aaron talk about the weird connections that define history – like the wartime shortage that led to the invention of the pencil.
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History Matters: Happy Birthday, North Carolina
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate North Carolina’s birthday – or at least one of the days that could claim that title.
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History Matters: The Marvelous Mrs. McCutcheon
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate Floretta “Doty” McCutcheon, who became a bowling legend after her husband signed her up for a league.
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History Matters: Ida B. Wells and the Etch-A-Sketch
This week: a Frenchman with an allergy invents a new technology rather than making a slight adjustment to the official French bread recipe.
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History Matters: Assembling the Statue of Liberty
Scott and Aaron celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, and two seminal civil-rights laws.
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History Matters: Days of Independence, Bicycles and the Origins of a Movement
This week, Scott and AJ, filling in for Aaron Keck, discuss which day Independence Day actually is, how North Carolina lit the match for our nations’ birth, the origins of the LGBTQ movement and bicycles!
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History Matters: Civil Rights and Computers
This week, Scott and Aaron discuss notable civil rights events, from the enactment of Title IX to a trailblazing 1957 protest in Durham.
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