History Matters
History Matters: Revolution, War, and Vaccines
Scott, Aaron, and Victor discuss a busy week in history – including the polio vaccine, Lincoln’s assassination, and the Halifax Resolves in 1776.
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History Matters: Inventions, Inventions, Inventions
Scott, Aaron, and Victor discuss great historical inventions, including the match, the safety pin, and (most importantly of all) the Twinkie.
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History Matters: April Fools!
This week, Scott looks back at famous April Fools jokes in history. Also: the first pencil with an eraser is invented, and the U.S. purchases Alaska.
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History Matters: Great Pets of History!
This week we recognize history’s pets: a 250-year-old giant tortoise, America’s first seeing-eye dog, and a homing pigeon who became a World War II hero.
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History Matters: Let’s Laugh! (But Not Yet.)
Friday is Let’s Laugh Day – so avoid laughing until then, people. Also: the escalator is patented, Typhoid Mary is found, and NC regains the Bill of Rights.
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History Matters: One Year Of Covid; Great Women In History
Scott and Aaron remember great women, like Harriet Tubman and Mary Shelley – and also mark the one-year anniversary of the Covid pandemic.
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History Matters: Furniture and Fayetteville
Scott and Aaron remember an influential furniture maker, an influential dress maker, and several big events that all happened in the city of Fayetteville.
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History Matters: Amendments and Battlefields
This week in history: the Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment, tennis is invented, and the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge sparks revolution.
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History Matters: Explorers (Of Sorts)
Calling in to avoid the winter storm, Scott looks back at explorers in history – including a couple whose ‘explorations’ weren’t especially geographical.
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History Matters: Lincoln, Douglass, and Jacobs
Scott, Aaron, and Victor discuss great figures in African-American history, all born this week: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, plus Abraham Lincoln.
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