Hometown History
By Shane Waters
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Discover forgotten stories from small-town America that never made it into history books. Hometown History is the podcast uncovering hidden American history—overlooked events, local mysteries, and untold tragedies from communities across the nation. Every week, meticulous research brings pre-2000 small-town stories to life in 20-minute episodes. From forgotten disasters to local legends, hidden chapters to pivotal moments, each episode explores a different town's overlooked history. Perfect for history enthusiasts seeking forgotten American stories, small-town history, and local history that shaped our nation. Respectful storytelling meets educational depth—history podcast content for curious minds who want to learn about America's hidden past without hour-long episodes.
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Jacksonville, Florida: The 1888 Yellow Fever Epidemic That Built Public Health
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May 19, 2026 |
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Bessemer City, North Carolina: The Ballad Singer the Mill Bosses Couldn't Silence
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May 12, 2026 |
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Forsyth County, Georgia: The Town Georgia Tried to Bury Twice
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May 05, 2026 |
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Carrollton, Mississippi: The 1886 Courthouse Massacre That History Forgot
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Dover, Delaware: The Poisoned Chocolates That Changed American Law
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Brattleboro, Vermont: The Asylum Tower Holding a Century of Secrets
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Waterbury, Vermont: The Asylum That Turned a Towns Name Into a Warning
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Riceville, Maine: The Ghost Town Whose Plague Never Happened
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Prudence Island: The Keeper Who Relit the Light After Losing Everything
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Watch Hill, Rhode Island: The Fort Road Massacre That Killed 15
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Deal Beach, New Jersey: 240 Immigrants Drowned 150 Yards From Shore
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Hazardville, Connecticut: When Gunpowder Made—and Destroyed—a Town
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Ord, Nebraska: The Teenage Teacher Who Saved 13 Children in the 1888 Blizzard
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Lewistown, Montana: When the Guide Became the Killer (1889)
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Globe, Arizona: The Curse of Room 18—Two Miners, One Deadly Room
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Taos, New Mexico: The Headless Body in the Fortress Mansion
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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East Montpelier, Vermont: The 14-Hour Marriage That Ended in Murder
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Turtle Lake, North Dakota: The Wolf Family Murders of 1920
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Boise City, Oklahoma: The Night America Bombed Its Own Town
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Edgefield, South Carolina: The Devil's Bargain Murder Trial of 1850
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Hagerstown, Indiana: The Blind Engineer Who Invented Cruise Control
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Gay Head, Massachusetts: 103 Souls Lost Half a Mile from Shore
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Gauley Bridge, West Virginia: America's Deadliest Industrial Cover-Up
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Wheeling, West Virginia: When Steel Workers Became Radio Stars
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Erie, Pennsylvania: The Wall of Water That Killed 36
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Athens, Tennessee: The 1946 GI Rebellion and the Limits of Armed Reform
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created the FBI
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's Disease Colony
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Africatown, Alabama: The Last Slave Ship and the Town Built by Survivors
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Exeter, Rhode Island: America's Last Vampire Exhumation
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Ottawa, Illinois: The Radium Girls' Fight for Justice
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Wahpeton, North Dakota: When Lightning Struck the Circus in 1897
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Hickory, North Carolina: The 54-Hour Polio Hospital Miracle of 1944
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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How Wabash, Indiana Saved Its Main Street
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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American Nursing: How a Profession Was Born from War and Reform
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale's War on Death
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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London: The Dark Origins of Nursing
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May 30, 2025 |
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West Virginia: The Vanishing of the Sodder Children
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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The American West: The Bone Wars of the 1870s
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Hollywood's Cursed Film: The Rebel Without a Cause Tragedy
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Moscow, Idaho: Psychiana and America's Mail-Order Religion Movement
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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New York's Greatest Mystery: Judge Crater's Vanishing
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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How a Telegraph Cable Launched Tiffany & Co. to Fame
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Indiana's Ambrose Bierce: The Writer Who Vanished in Mexico, 1913
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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White Sulphur Springs: Project Greek Island's Secret Congressional Bunker
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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San Francisco's Great Diamond Hoax of 1872
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Homestead, Florida: The Coral Castle Mystery
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Paul Revere: Boston's Revolutionary Propagandist
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Cleveland's Mad Butcher: The Unsolved Torso Murders
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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America's Secret Societies: The Benevolent Brotherhood
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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America's Japanese Internment After Pearl Harbor
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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America's Youngest Serial Killer: Jesse Pomeroy
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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When Paradise Becomes Prison: The Rat Utopia Experiment
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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The USS Cyclops: America's Greatest Naval Mystery
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Three Forgotten Wholesome Stories from America
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The Night Doctors: American Medical Terror
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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The Hollywood Blacklist: When Fear Silenced the Stars
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May 27, 2024 |
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Lewis Howard Latimer: The Genius Behind Edison's Bulb
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May 20, 2024 |
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Hollywood's Scandal That Created Movie Censorship
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May 13, 2024 |
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How Charles Brush Illuminated a City and Changed America Forever
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May 06, 2024 |
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Chicago's Haymarket Affair: The Bloody Birth of May Day
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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The Philadelphia Experiment: WWII's Invisibility Hoax
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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The Battle of Alcatraz: Two Days of Violence
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Anne Bonny and Mary Read: Caribbean's Female Pirates
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Grant's Whiskey Ring: The $3 Million Tax Fraud
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Dayton's Project Blue Book: The UFO Investigation
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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San Jose's Mansion Built to Confuse Ghosts
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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The First Electric City Tour: Wabash, Indiana (1880)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Baltimore's Underground Railroad Network
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Roanoke Island: America's First Vanished Colony
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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The Scopes Monkey Trial: Evolution on Trial
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Chicago's Crime of the Century: Leopold and Loeb
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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When Jacksonville, Florida Was Hollywood
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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The Teapot Dome Scandal: When Oil Money Bought Washington
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The Kentucky Meat Shower Mystery
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Edith Wilson: America's Secret President
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Hannah Duston: Colonial America's Dark Heroine
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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The Met Museum's Dark History of Art Theft
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Secrets of the Met Museum: The Humble Beginnings
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Virginia Hall: America's Most Dangerous Spy
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Project Sunshine: America's Dark Secret
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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The Night Witches: Soviet Women Who Terrorized the Nazis
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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North Carolina's Forgotten Gold Rush of 1799
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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When Washington Poisoned Prohibition Alcoholv
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Sweet Success: Milton Hershey's Legacy of Generosity
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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When Las Vegas Marketed Atomic Bomb Tests
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Las Vegas: From Railroad Stop to Sin City
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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West Baden's Impossible Dome and Hidden Stories
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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West Baden's Forgotten Palace: The Eighth Wonder of the World
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Gus Grissom and the Dawn of American Spaceflight
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Baltimore's Clown Who Became a Historian
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Terre Haute's Eva Kor: A Holocaust Survivor's Legacy
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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From Ashes: The CANDLES Museum's Story of Resilience
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Terre Haute's Holocaust Museum: Survival and Arson
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May 22, 2023 |
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Florida's Unconquered: The Miccosukee Stand in the Everglades
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Bristol: The Twin Towns That Birthed Country Music
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Brown County, Indiana: How T.C. Steele Created an American Art Colony
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Washington State Gold Panning: Chasing the 1880s Rush in Modern Rivers
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Bean Blossom, Indiana: Inside Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Hall of Fame
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Spencer County, Indiana: How Lincoln's Boyhood Shaped a President
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Lincoln City, Indiana: Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Years, 1816-1830
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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West Columbia, South Carolina: The 1963 Champions' Field Reborn
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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West Columbia, South Carolina: The Dust Bowl Champions of 1963
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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America's Utopian Communes: The Rise and Fall of Radical Communities
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen's Utopian Community Experiment (1825-1827)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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New Harmony, Indiana: The German Commune That Built and Sold a Town
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Wabash, Indiana: The 1826 Treaty That Prevented a Frontier War
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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San Francisco's North Beach: The Beat Generation's Bohemian Heart
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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San Francisco's Beat Museum: The 1950s Literary Rebellion
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Reno, Nevada: The Six-Week Divorce Capital of America
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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St. George, Utah: Hollywood's Deadliest Film Set
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Virginia City, Nevada: The Underground Tunnels Beneath the Silver Boom
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Crescent City, California: Surviving Three Devastating Tsunamis
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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San Juan Islands, Washington: The Pig War's Diplomatic Resolution
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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San Juan Islands: The Pig War That Nearly Started a US-British Conflict
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Desolation Peak, Washington: Jack Kerouac's 63 Days of Solitude
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Crater Lake National Park: Oregon's Volcanic Wonder and America's Deepest Lake
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps: Reviving a Green Legacy
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Lake Mead, Nevada: America's Largest Reservoir and Its Shrinking Future
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Holiday Crossover Special: A Nightmare Before Halloween, Part 2
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Death Valley, California: The Hottest Park and Scenic Nationalism
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Grand Canyon, Arizona: The Hidden History Behind an American Icon
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Northern California: The 50-Year Fight to Save the Coastal Redwoods
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Yellowstone National Park: How Art and Artists Created America's First National Park
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Yosemite National Park: America's First Protected Wilderness and Conservation Legacy
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Welcome to Hometown History
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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America's Conservation Presidents: Roosevelt to Carter and the National Park Legacy
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Fountain City, Indiana: The Underground Railroad's Grand Central Station
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Fountain City, Indiana: The Underground Railroad's Grand Central Station
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Nashville, Tennessee: Enslaved Lives at Jackson's Hermitage
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Nashville's Hermitage: How Andrew Jackson Built Power Through Slavery
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Parker's Crossroads, Tennessee: Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escape
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Nashville, Tennessee: The Full-Scale Parthenon Replica of Music City
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Memphis, Tennessee: Dewey Phillips and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll Radio
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Memphis, Tennessee: Sun Studio's Million Dollar Quartet and Rock's Golden Age
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Sun Studio: Where Rock 'n' Roll Was Born
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Nashville's Fort Negley: The Fortress That Never Fired a Shot
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Memphis: The City That Blues Built
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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The Wabash Hanging: 6,000 Witnesses (Part 4)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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The Trial of John Hubbard: Wabash, Indiana (Part 3)
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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The Canal Killer of Rich Valley (Part 2)
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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The French Family Murders of Wabash (Part 1)
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May 30, 2022 |
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The Peshtigo Fire: America's Deadliest Wildfire
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May 23, 2022 |
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Pictured Rocks: Michigan's Climate Refuge (Part 8)
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May 16, 2022 |
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The Quincy Mine: Michigan's Two-Mile Deep Death Trap (Part 7)
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May 09, 2022 |
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The Ghost Town of Gay, Michigan (Part 6)
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May 02, 2022 |
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The Guardian of Phoenix: Michigan's Last General Store (Part 5)
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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The Ghost Towns of Michigan's Copper Country (Part 4)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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The Keweenaw Copper Rush: America's First Mining Boom (Part 3)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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The Mackinac Bridge Tragedy (Part 2)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Upper Peninsula: America's Future Refuge (Part 1)
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Alcatraz East: Crime Museum in the Smokies
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Biltmore Estate: America's Castle & Its WWII Secret
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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The Cherokee: Saving a Dying Language in North Carolina
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The Cherokee's Broken Treaties (Part 1)
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Oak Ridge's Secret Army: The Calutron Girls (Part 2)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Oak Ridge: The Secret City That Built the Bomb (Part 1)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Lepa Radić: Yugoslavia's 17-Year-Old Resistance Fighter
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Indianapolis Moved a Building (With Workers Inside)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Belle Boyd: The Teenage Spy Who Changed the Civil War
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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The Friends of Dorothy Investigation
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Richmond's Spy Mistress: The Elizabeth Van Lew Story
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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The Live Burial of Hammond, Indiana
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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The Princes in the Tower: London's Darkest Royal Mystery
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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The Key That Didn't Work: Bill Russell in Marion
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The Straw Hat Riots of New York
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Disaster
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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The Harvard Soldier Who Hated War
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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The Courtroom Tragedy: Monica Seles' Near-Fatal Match
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Alexandria: Where Washington Changed History
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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The Marshall House Tragedy: Alexandria's First Civil War Deaths
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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The Italian Hall Disaster of Calumet
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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The Potsdam Giants: Prussia's Regiment of Kidnapped Tall Men
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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Madam C.J. Walker: First Self-Made Millionaire, Part 2
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Madam C.J. Walker: From Cotton Fields to Empire (Part 1)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Robert Smalls Stole a Confederate Ship
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Dispelling Myths: The "Dumb Blonde" Stereotype
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Almeda Huiet: The Forgotten Victim of Rowan, Indiana
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May 17, 2021 |
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Almeda Huiet: H.H. Holmes' Forgotten Victim
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May 10, 2021 |
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The Man Who Darkened His Skin to Fight Racism
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May 03, 2021 |
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Monopoly's Secret Origin: The Woman They Erased
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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The Cadaver Synod: Rome's Trial of a Dead Pope
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Lincoln's Springfield Home: The Man Before the Monument
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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When the BBC Convinced Millions Spaghetti Grows on Trees
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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America's First Free Speech Crisis (1798)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Franklin's Turkey: America's Almost National Bird
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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When More Democracy Means Less Freedom
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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The Burning Rag: Delaware's Deadly Powder Mills
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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The Witch of Wall Street: Hetty Green's Story
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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The Philosopher Who Told Alexander the Great to Move
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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The Sailor Who Rejected Nazi Germany
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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The Man Who Could Never Stop Eating
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Dec 15, 2020 |
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San Francisco's Self-Proclaimed Emperor
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Belle Isle: Detroit's Abandoned Paradise
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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Michigan's Sleeping Bear: A Nazi Ship Still Haunts These Waters
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Mackinac Island: Where Cars Were Banned in 1898
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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The Fox Islands and the Children of the Snow
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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High Island's House of Virgins: Michigan's Cult
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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America's Only King: Beaver Island's James Strang
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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The Real Dorothy of Oz: A Bloomington Tragedy
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Wabash's Blinding Light: First Electric City
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May 01, 2018 |