History Matters
History Matters: Standardization, Old-Timey Pens, and Jimmy Carter’s UFO
This week’s all about standardization, as Scott and Aaron look back on the development of modern recipes – and modern time zones.
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History Matters: Lunsford’s Croup Salve
This week: a North Carolinian invents Vick’s VapoRub, and Amelia Earhart actually keeps a New Year’s resolution.
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History Matters: Don’t Mention The Twelve Days!
This week: Washington crosses the Delaware, a Frenchman crosses the Atlantic, and Scott does his best to derail Aaron’s Impossible Quiz.
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History Matters: Flights and Fights
Scott and Aaron look back on a busy week in U.S. history – from the Boston Tea Party to the Wright Brothers’ flight.
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History Matters: The Bell Tolls for the Bill of Rights
This week marks the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights – which Scott commemorates each year with an event in Hillsborough.
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History Matters: Not His-tory or Her-story, But Our-story
This week, Scott and Aaron remember a trio of disruptive people in history, and Aaron comes up with his best pun ever.
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History Matters: Imagine Thanksgiving Without Sweets
We examine the history of Thanksgiving – including Thomas Jefferson, the Great Depression, and the author of “Mary Had A Little Lamb.”
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History Matters: The Witch of Wall Street
This week, Scott and Aaron remember a woman whose financial acumen helped save the U.S. economy not once, but twice.
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History Matters: Gentle Persuasion
Scott and Aaron remember an aviation pioneer, civil rights milestones, the inventor of the sandwich, and a tense moment in colonial history.
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History Matters: ‘Still, I Am One’
This week, Scott and Aaron reflect on Tuesday’s election, with reassuring lessons and words from history – and ideas for moving forward.
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