History Matters
History Matters: Angry Wilmingtonians
This week, we remember a colonial protest against the Stamp Act – a reminder that you can raise your voice on any day, not just Election Day.
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History Matters: Women in Water
Scott looks back on a woman who went over Niagara Falls and survived, and another woman who became the first to swim the English Channel.
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History Matters: Impossible Feats
This week, Scott celebrates various people (and animals) who achieved things that were believed to be impossible.
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History Matters: Everybody Cares
This week, Scott remembers the completion of the Washington Monument – and a highly influential abolitionist and women’s rights activist.
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History Matters: Medals and Meddlers
This week: a 19th-century female astronomer who won a global award, and a pair of 20th-century civil rights champions.
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History Matters: Building The Cores
Scott and Aaron discuss the Bill of Rights, a civil rights hero, a fitness pioneer, and a man who spread apple trees all over the U.S.
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History Matters: Keep On Your Quest
This week, Scott and Aaron remember several great figures in history, including a globetrotting mountaineer and a retail pioneer.
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History Matters: A Dreadful Bumclangor
Aaron hijacks this week’s installment with a recent discovery about a hilariously obscene moment in NC’s 1788 Constitutional debate.
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History Matters: Labor Day, Integration, and KFC
This week, Scott and Aaron discuss the origins of Labor Day, a courageous girl who fought segregation – and Colonel Sanders.
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History Matters: History on the Hudson
Scott and Aaron remember a trailblazing swimmer, a Civil War general who moved the dial on slavery, and a local invention that went global.
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