History Matters
History Matters: Our Own Statue of Liberty
Scott and Aaron celebrate pencils with erasers, yellow school buses, two great women in history, and WCHL’s famed AM tower.
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History Matters: Through Rain or Snow or Sleet
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate Mr. Rogers, a pioneering inventor, the man who broke the four-minute mile, and one very old tortoise.
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History Matters: Harriet Tubman and Mary Shelley
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate great women of the 19th century – as well as the man who developed a very popular potato.
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History Matters: Remembering Elizabeth Keckley
This week, Scott focuses on one moment in history: the first meeting between Mary Todd Lincoln and dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley.
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History Matters: A Bad Lighthouse Keeper?
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate notable inventions, questionable heroes, and significant moments in the struggle for racial equality.
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History Matters: Beating Plowshares Into Swords
Scott and Aaron celebrate the inventors of the flat-bottomed paper bag and the Ferris Wheel, plus two long-journeying men (and horses).
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History Matters: What Happened to Umbrella Covers?
Scott and Aaron discuss Beulah Louise Henry, a Raleigh-based inventor known as “Lady Edison” – and the weird election of 1824.
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History Matters: Groundhog Day and Heroes
On this Groundhog Day, Scott and Aaron look back at recurring trends in history – and the heroic figures who keep emerging every time.
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History Matters: Seventy Years and Six Years
Scott and Aaron celebrate the 70th birthday of WCHL – and the sixth birthday of our “History Matters” segment.
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History Matters: Intensity and Memory
We look back at a wide variety of historical moments this week – some intense and violent, others triumphant. (And in some cases, both.)
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