History Matters
History Matters: Celebrating Anna May Wong
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate pioneering actors, Revolutionary War heroes, and animals who made a big historical impact.
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History Matters: Around the World, or Going Nowhere
Scott’s having car trouble, but he joins by phone this week – ironically, with a story about a pioneering traveler from the 19th century.
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History Matters: Disruptions
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate history’s disruptors – including a vacuum-cleaner innovator and a famed civil rights activist.
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History Matters: Station of the Year
In which we eventually get to this week in history, but not before Scott celebrates 97.9 The Hill’s recent awards.
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History Matters: Pioneering Women
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate pioneering women, including a globetrotting cyclist and an 11-year-old who flew across the US.
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History Matters: Democracy and the Constitution
This week in history, we celebrate democracy and the writing of the Constitution – but the segue from one to the other might be awkward.
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History Matters: What Rhymes With ‘Washington’
Scott and Aaron discuss great figures who got their starts very late, and very early, in life. Also, a listener writes a poem about Scott.
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History Matters: Laziness and Ambition
This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate civil rights leaders, endurance travelers, and an inventor who took an easy thing and made it easier.
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History Matters: Eruptions
This week, Scott and Aaron look at historical eruptions: three volcanoes, but also some ‘eruptive’ movements and people making an impact.
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History Matters: Path Dependence
Remembering some development battles in NC gets Aaron and Scott thinking about what we might have thought if they’d gone differently.
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