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Earthrise
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Dec 31, 2019 |
Hair peace. Bed peace.
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Dec 30, 2019 |
The jazz queen who chose home over fame
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Dec 27, 2019 |
Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims
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Dec 26, 2019 |
The military's famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number
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Dec 25, 2019 |
The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.
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Dec 23, 2019 |
Last Seen Ads
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Dec 20, 2019 |
How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL
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Dec 19, 2019 |
The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame
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Dec 18, 2019 |
How food found its way into the freezer
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Dec 17, 2019 |
The day before the Chernobyl disaster
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Dec 16, 2019 |
The most difficult job Robert Mueller ever had
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Dec 13, 2019 |
Queen Arawelo
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Dec 12, 2019 |
The nurse who picked up a rifle
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Dec 11, 2019 |
George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL
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Dec 10, 2019 |
The summer men rebelled against their shirts
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Dec 09, 2019 |
America’s forgotten Iranian hostage
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Dec 06, 2019 |
A bridge of ice at Niagara Falls
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Dec 05, 2019 |
The Soviet officer who stopped World War III
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Dec 04, 2019 |
Why isn’t lynching illegal?
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Dec 03, 2019 |
A letter from home
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Dec 02, 2019 |
The test that changed childbirth
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Nov 29, 2019 |
A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve?
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Nov 28, 2019 |
Benjamin Franklin's complicated relationship with turkeys
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Nov 27, 2019 |
The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food
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Nov 26, 2019 |
How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
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Nov 25, 2019 |
The man who filmed JFK's assassination
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Nov 22, 2019 |
The 'Night Witches'
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Nov 21, 2019 |
Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena
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Nov 20, 2019 |
Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy
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Nov 19, 2019 |
Ketamine in the mainstream
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Nov 18, 2019 |
The first 'Queen of the Air'
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Nov 14, 2019 |
Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood
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Nov 13, 2019 |
Jim Crow and the rise of blackface
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Nov 12, 2019 |
The policeman who arrested a president
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Nov 11, 2019 |
A history of the U.S.-Mexico border
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Nov 08, 2019 |
The godmother of the open office
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Nov 07, 2019 |
The Wicked Bible
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Nov 06, 2019 |
The Confederate spy who evaded capture
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Nov 05, 2019 |
Pinball’s sordid past
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Nov 04, 2019 |
The last person to step foot on the moon
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Nov 01, 2019 |
A history of hats in the House
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Oct 31, 2019 |
Tenure for life
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Oct 30, 2019 |
How Lego took over the toy world
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Oct 29, 2019 |
The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet
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Oct 28, 2019 |
A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat
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Oct 25, 2019 |
William Howard Taft's housekeeper kept track of his weight
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Oct 24, 2019 |
In 1939, the 'American Hitler' took the stage at Madison Square Garden
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Oct 23, 2019 |
The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court
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Oct 22, 2019 |
The first campus shooting
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Oct 21, 2019 |
The origins of the Unknown Soldier
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Oct 18, 2019 |
America and warfare were never the same after World War I
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Oct 16, 2019 |
The campus massacre before Kent State
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Oct 15, 2019 |
Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
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Oct 14, 2019 |
The presidential pardon the country never forgot
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Oct 11, 2019 |
How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
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Oct 10, 2019 |
Mary Ann Van Hoof and her Marian apparitions
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Oct 09, 2019 |
Close encounters with the Capitol's Demon Cat
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Oct 08, 2019 |
New York's mad bomber
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Oct 07, 2019 |
The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer
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Oct 04, 2019 |
The photographer and the busboy
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Oct 03, 2019 |
The time America invaded Britain
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Oct 02, 2019 |
Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his 'angel mother' and 'mama'
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Oct 01, 2019 |
The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel
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Sep 30, 2019 |
Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman
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Sep 27, 2019 |
The body of Emmett Till
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Sep 26, 2019 |
The origins of the Waterloo teeth
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Sep 25, 2019 |
In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships
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Sep 24, 2019 |
How the teddy bear was born
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Sep 23, 2019 |
The Saturday Night Massacre
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Sep 20, 2019 |
How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous
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Sep 19, 2019 |
How a renovation made the Supreme Court a friendlier place
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Sep 18, 2019 |
The heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse
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Sep 17, 2019 |
The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis
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Sep 13, 2019 |
Colonel Blood, the scoundrel who tried to steal Great Britain's crown jewels
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Sep 12, 2019 |
The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
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Sep 11, 2019 |
Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet
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Sep 10, 2019 |
The Nazi stone
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Sep 09, 2019 |
Paul Jennings, the former slave who disputed a legend from history
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Sep 06, 2019 |
Winnie and Nelson Mandela's marriage survived prison but not freedom
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Sep 05, 2019 |
The dark history of the pill
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Sep 04, 2019 |
Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?
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Sep 03, 2019 |
The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon
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Sep 02, 2019 |
The worst presidents
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Aug 30, 2019 |
The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys
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Aug 29, 2019 |
Being a maverick almost stopped John McCain from becoming a public servant
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Aug 28, 2019 |
LBJ's political bombshell
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Aug 27, 2019 |
The most romantic day
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Aug 26, 2019 |
The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh
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Aug 23, 2019 |
The photographer who helped end child labor in America
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Aug 22, 2019 |
The performance that saved Johnny Cash's career
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Aug 21, 2019 |
When Olympic silver beats gold
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Aug 20, 2019 |
Meet Paul Manafort's century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits
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Aug 19, 2019 |
How Hollywood's first major blockbuster revived the KKK
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Aug 16, 2019 |
The biscuit tin that protected the crown jewels
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Aug 15, 2019 |
Rosie the Riveter isn't who you think she is
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Aug 14, 2019 |
Reagan's most historic speech took a few years to make an impact
|
Aug 13, 2019 |
How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began
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Aug 12, 2019 |
The first congresswoman's vote
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Aug 09, 2019 |
The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK
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Aug 08, 2019 |
The man and the coconut that saved JFK
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Aug 07, 2019 |
The first daughters
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Aug 06, 2019 |
The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing
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Aug 05, 2019 |
The fact and fiction of Prince Philip
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Aug 02, 2019 |
What Operation Pied Piper taught us about family separations
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Aug 01, 2019 |
The teen who tied a Virginia election
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Jul 31, 2019 |
The books the presidents read
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Jul 30, 2019 |
How God became part of the pledge
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Jul 29, 2019 |
How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military
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Jul 26, 2019 |
The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die
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Jul 25, 2019 |
The femme fatale
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Jul 24, 2019 |
The congressman who shot a waiter
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Jul 23, 2019 |
The children's crusade
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Jul 22, 2019 |
Introducing Moonrise
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Jul 19, 2019 |
The time Truman met with Stalin and it went well
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Jul 18, 2019 |
Mrs. Graham
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Jul 17, 2019 |
The storied past of Alderson federal women's prison
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Jul 16, 2019 |
The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space
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Jul 15, 2019 |
The first shark attacks
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Jul 12, 2019 |
The oldest surviving banjo recording
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Jul 11, 2019 |
The Jedwabne massacre
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Jul 10, 2019 |
The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'
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Jul 09, 2019 |
The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
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Jul 08, 2019 |
Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office
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Jul 05, 2019 |
Thomas Jefferson's last letter
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Jul 04, 2019 |
The epic bender that launched America
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Jul 03, 2019 |
The time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
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Jul 02, 2019 |
Suzanne Lenglen, the first goddess of tennis
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Jul 01, 2019 |
The first pride parade
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Jun 28, 2019 |
The rainless flood that destroyed a city
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Jun 27, 2019 |
How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady
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Jun 26, 2019 |
The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools
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Jun 25, 2019 |
The origins of the National Rifle Association
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Jun 24, 2019 |
How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini
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Jun 21, 2019 |
The man who won World War II
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Jun 20, 2019 |
Oregon was America’s first and only state to begin as 'whites-only'
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Jun 19, 2019 |
Publishers hated ‘A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections
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Jun 18, 2019 |
This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him
|
Jun 17, 2019 |
A history of extreme makeovers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Jun 14, 2019 |
The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement
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Jun 13, 2019 |
Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career
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Jun 12, 2019 |
The 'temporary insanity' legal defense started with an affair
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Jun 11, 2019 |
Eisenhower’s famous speech to U.S. troops the day before D-Day
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Jun 10, 2019 |
The painter who became the CIA’s master of disguise
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Jun 07, 2019 |
The ax that killed Leon Trotsky
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Jun 06, 2019 |
That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine
|
Jun 05, 2019 |
The pistols that almost fell from the sky
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Jun 04, 2019 |
The rat that helped win the Cold War
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Jun 03, 2019 |
The test that changed childbirth
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May 31, 2019 |
Amid rising tension between the U.S. and Cuba, Hemingway's widow went on a literary rescue mission
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May 30, 2019 |
Frank Lloyd Wright tried to create a perfect house for an imperfect world
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May 29, 2019 |
Rising from ruin: The many rebuilds of Notre Dame
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May 28, 2019 |
A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve?
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May 24, 2019 |
How food found its way into the freezer
|
May 23, 2019 |
The man who helped create the first measles vaccine didn’t vaccinate his own son
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May 22, 2019 |
Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims
|
May 21, 2019 |
Why Naval Academy students climb a greased up obelisk every year
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May 20, 2019 |
The forgotten pioneers of the first American utopia
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May 17, 2019 |
The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame
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May 16, 2019 |
The unlikely beginning of paint-by-number
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May 15, 2019 |
The jazz queen who chose home over fame
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May 14, 2019 |
The most difficult job Robert Mueller ever had
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May 13, 2019 |
Anna Jarvis spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it
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May 10, 2019 |
John Brown's prophecy
|
May 09, 2019 |
The books presidents read
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May 08, 2019 |
The original Alcoholics Anonymous book was auctioned for millions, but its author was never paid
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May 07, 2019 |
The invention of sarin
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May 06, 2019 |
May the Fourth be with you
|
May 03, 2019 |
Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant.
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May 02, 2019 |
Meet the Press
|
May 01, 2019 |
The mother who made George Washington miserable
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Apr 30, 2019 |
The Sullivan brothers
|
Apr 29, 2019 |
Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party
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Apr 26, 2019 |
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day was once just for daughters
|
Apr 25, 2019 |
These guys were college jocks, and then became presidents of the United States
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Apr 24, 2019 |
The truth is out there
|
Apr 23, 2019 |
One broadcast helped turn Americans against the Vietnam War
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Apr 22, 2019 |
Egg Roll
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Apr 19, 2019 |
Chillicothe, Missouri: The town that invented sliced bread
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Apr 18, 2019 |
The black power protest that shook the world
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Apr 17, 2019 |
History's most fascinating misquote
|
Apr 16, 2019 |
Hate the IRS? Blame Abraham Lincoln.
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Apr 12, 2019 |
The Mouth of the South
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Apr 12, 2019 |
Hair peace. Bed peace.
|
Apr 11, 2019 |
Queen Arawelo
|
Apr 10, 2019 |
The man who killed Bonnie and Clyde
|
Apr 09, 2019 |
Ketamine in the mainstream
|
Apr 05, 2019 |
From handsaws to parades: D.C.’s cherry blossom trees weren’t always beloved
|
Apr 05, 2019 |
The day before the Chernobyl disaster
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Apr 04, 2019 |
Last Seen Ads
|
Apr 03, 2019 |
Earthrise
|
Apr 02, 2019 |
George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL
|
Apr 01, 2019 |
The first 'Queen of the Air'
|
Mar 29, 2019 |
A spy in the Confederate White House
|
Mar 28, 2019 |
The nurse who picked up a rifle
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Mar 27, 2019 |
The 'Night Witches'
|
Mar 26, 2019 |
The extraordinary life of Civil War veteran Albert Cashier
|
Mar 25, 2019 |
The first black senator and America’s brief biracial democracy
|
Mar 22, 2019 |
Why isn’t lynching illegal?
|
Mar 21, 2019 |
Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena
|
Mar 20, 2019 |
Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood
|
Mar 19, 2019 |
A rich piece of scandal
|
Mar 18, 2019 |
The godfather of bracketology
|
Mar 15, 2019 |
To ban a 'Mockingbird'
|
Mar 14, 2019 |
The history of epic North Korean insults
|
Mar 13, 2019 |
Special delivery!
|
Mar 12, 2019 |
Why Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history
|
Mar 11, 2019 |
The glass ceiling
|
Mar 08, 2019 |
The woman behind Lisa Ben
|
Mar 07, 2019 |
The night America burned
|
Mar 06, 2019 |
Was Mary Todd Lincoln a leaker?
|
Mar 05, 2019 |
The forbidden question
|
Mar 04, 2019 |
The best birthday card ever
|
Mar 01, 2019 |
The houses built by slaves
|
Feb 28, 2019 |
How are you, Grandmama?
|
Feb 27, 2019 |
The crooked picture
|
Feb 26, 2019 |
The Limping Lady
|
Feb 25, 2019 |
And the winner is...
|
Feb 22, 2019 |
What hath God wrought?
|
Feb 21, 2019 |
The ice queen
|
Feb 20, 2019 |
The electric rivalry
|
Feb 19, 2019 |
All the Presidents' Ghosts
|
Feb 18, 2019 |
The spy plane
|
Feb 15, 2019 |
Before the Lovings, another interracial couple fought to marry
|
Feb 14, 2019 |
Dr. Spock
|
Feb 13, 2019 |
The first female Marine
|
Feb 12, 2019 |
Philadelphia's plumbing revolution: wood pipes
|
Feb 11, 2019 |
Jim Crow and the rise of blackface
|
Feb 08, 2019 |
The Wicked Bible
|
Feb 07, 2019 |
How the State of the Union went from speech to spectacle
|
Feb 06, 2019 |
Winifred Stanley, a forgotten equal pay pioneer
|
Feb 05, 2019 |
The Soviet officer who stopped World War III
|
Feb 04, 2019 |
How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL
|
Feb 01, 2019 |
The godmother of the open office
|
Jan 31, 2019 |
The Confederate spy who evaded capture
|
Jan 30, 2019 |
The rise of supermarkets
|
Jan 29, 2019 |
How the Doomsday Clock came to be
|
Jan 28, 2019 |
Pinball’s sordid past
|
Jan 25, 2019 |
The man inside the minds of a million consumers
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Jan 24, 2019 |
A history of hats in the House
|
Jan 23, 2019 |
The last person to set foot on the moon
|
Jan 22, 2019 |
How Martin Luther King Jr. got his name
|
Jan 21, 2019 |
Tenure for life
|
Jan 18, 2019 |
The hatchet wielding leader of the anti-alcohol movement
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Jan 17, 2019 |
A bridge of ice at Niagara Falls
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Jan 16, 2019 |
The only person Hitler loved
|
Jan 15, 2019 |
A history of the U.S.-Mexico border
|
Jan 14, 2019 |
A presidential emergency that didn't end well
|
Jan 11, 2019 |
How Lego took over the toy world
|
Jan 10, 2019 |
The summer men rebelled against their shirts
|
Jan 09, 2019 |
The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet
|
Jan 08, 2019 |
One of the greatest astronomers of her generation
|
Jan 07, 2019 |
How one World War II veteran lived to be a centenarian
|
Jan 04, 2019 |
A wooden mallet with a colorful history of being shattered
|
Jan 03, 2019 |
The rabble rouser who inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg
|
Jan 02, 2019 |
Mourning Bobby Kennedy
|
Jan 01, 2019 |
The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’
|
Dec 31, 2018 |
The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
|
Dec 28, 2018 |
Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods
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Dec 27, 2018 |
Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up
|
Dec 26, 2018 |
Big Bird and the genius inside
|
Dec 25, 2018 |
The military’s famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number
|
Dec 24, 2018 |
The Christmas Truce
|
Dec 21, 2018 |
A piece of punctuation that failed to leave its mark
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Dec 20, 2018 |
President Grant fired his own special prosecutor
|
Dec 19, 2018 |
The first presidential press conference
|
Dec 18, 2018 |
The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court
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Dec 17, 2018 |
The policeman who arrested a president
|
Dec 14, 2018 |
One of the ugliest speaker fights in congressional history
|
Dec 13, 2018 |
The evangelist and convicted cat burglar who galvanized gay rights
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Dec 12, 2018 |
In 1939, the 'American Hitler' took the stage at Madison Square Garden
|
Dec 11, 2018 |
The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food
|
Dec 10, 2018 |
The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.
|
Dec 07, 2018 |
America’s first black Catholic priest
|
Dec 06, 2018 |
John Adams was eulogized before his son even knew he died
|
Dec 05, 2018 |
George H.W. Bush was a president and a prankster
|
Dec 04, 2018 |
The unlikely friendship between George H.W. Bush and Dana Carvey
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Dec 01, 2018 |
William Howard Taft’s housekeeper kept track of his weight
|
Nov 30, 2018 |
The National Christmas Tree
|
Nov 29, 2018 |
The trials and tribulations of being a cat
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Nov 28, 2018 |
Then they came for me
|
Nov 27, 2018 |
A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat
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Nov 26, 2018 |
Benjamin Franklin’s complicated relationship with turkeys
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Nov 21, 2018 |
The Green Book
|
Nov 20, 2018 |
The origins of the Unknown Soldier
|
Nov 19, 2018 |
Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
|
Nov 16, 2018 |
Food stamps were born out of a surplus of food
|
Nov 15, 2018 |
William Rehnquist's proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor
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Nov 14, 2018 |
The first lady who couldn’t get her memoir published
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Nov 13, 2018 |
Joachim Ronneberg, the saboteur who crippled Nazi atomic bomb project
|
Nov 12, 2018 |
America and warfare were never the same after World War I
|
Nov 09, 2018 |
Wong Kim Ark's Supreme Court fight for birthright citizenship
|
Nov 08, 2018 |
How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
|
Nov 07, 2018 |
The makings of an electoral heist
|
Nov 06, 2018 |
Rahm Emanuel, Howard Dean and the midterm elections of 2006
|
Nov 05, 2018 |
Fall back, spring forward
|
Nov 02, 2018 |
Mary Ann Van Hoof and the Marian apparitions
|
Nov 01, 2018 |
Close encounters with the Capitol’s Demon Cat
|
Oct 31, 2018 |
How Pittsburgh's Mister Rogers talked to children about tragedy
|
Oct 30, 2018 |
New York's mad bomber
|
Oct 29, 2018 |
The sword pulled from history
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Oct 26, 2018 |
A love supreme: Ruth Bader and Martin Ginsburg
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Oct 25, 2018 |
The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer
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Oct 24, 2018 |
The Sultan of Swat wasn’t always known as a slugger
|
Oct 23, 2018 |
Big Bird and the genius inside
|
Oct 22, 2018 |
Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman
|
Oct 19, 2018 |
The metamorphosis of Jackie O
|
Oct 18, 2018 |
The body of Emmett Till
|
Oct 17, 2018 |
The photographer and the busboy
|
Oct 16, 2018 |
The Romanovs, Russia's 'odious' autocratic family
|
Oct 15, 2018 |
The gory origins of the Waterloo teeth
|
Oct 12, 2018 |
How the teddy bear was born
|
Oct 11, 2018 |
The first black female White House reporter held the powerful accountable on civil rights
|
Oct 10, 2018 |
The teenage girl who caught a Nazi monster
|
Oct 09, 2018 |
The complicated history of swimsuits and Miss America
|
Oct 08, 2018 |
The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis
|
Oct 05, 2018 |
The surprising history of the 25th Amendment
|
Oct 04, 2018 |
In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships
|
Oct 03, 2018 |
America’s forgotten Iranian hostage
|
Oct 02, 2018 |
The heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse
|
Oct 01, 2018 |
How accusations against Supreme Court nominees were once handled
|
Sep 28, 2018 |
The man and the coconut that saved JFK
|
Sep 27, 2018 |
Rosie the Riveter isn’t who you think she is
|
Sep 26, 2018 |
The presidential pardon the country never forgot
|
Sep 25, 2018 |
How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
|
Sep 24, 2018 |
The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office
|
Sep 21, 2018 |
The photographer who helped end child labor in America
|
Sep 20, 2018 |
Only half of George Washington’s Supreme Court justices showed up on time
|
Sep 19, 2018 |
Winnie and Nelson Mandela’s marriage survived prison but not freedom
|
Sep 18, 2018 |
The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK
|
Sep 17, 2018 |
The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel
|
Sep 14, 2018 |
The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys
|
Sep 13, 2018 |
How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous
|
Sep 12, 2018 |
The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
|
Sep 11, 2018 |
Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his ‘angel mother’ and ‘mama’
|
Sep 10, 2018 |
The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’
|
Sep 07, 2018 |
Roe v. Wade’s forgotten loser
|
Sep 06, 2018 |
The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh
|
Sep 05, 2018 |
The campus massacre before Kent State
|
Sep 04, 2018 |
The time the United States illegally deported 1 million Mexican Americans
|
Sep 03, 2018 |
The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
|
Aug 31, 2018 |
Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up
|
Aug 30, 2018 |
How a Supreme Court clerk changed the decision on Clay v. United States
|
Aug 29, 2018 |
Colonel Blood, the scoundrel who tried to steal Great Britain's crown jewels
|
Aug 28, 2018 |
Being a maverick almost stopped John McCain from becoming a public servant
|
Aug 27, 2018 |
Paul Jennings, the former slave who disputed a legend from history
|
Aug 24, 2018 |
What Operation Pied Piper taught us about family separations
|
Aug 23, 2018 |
Reagan's most historic speech took a few years to make an impact
|
Aug 22, 2018 |
A president’s lions and the emoluments clause
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Aug 21, 2018 |
How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military
|
Aug 20, 2018 |
The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'
|
Aug 17, 2018 |
The congressman who shot a waiter
|
Aug 16, 2018 |
The time Truman met with Stalin and it went well
|
Aug 15, 2018 |
Meet Paul Manafort’s century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits
|
Aug 14, 2018 |
An aviation flop was a stamp collector’s dream and the U.S. Postal Service’s nightmare
|
Aug 13, 2018 |
How Mister Rogers talked to children and families about tragedy
|
Aug 10, 2018 |
The storied past of Alderson federal women’s prison
|
Aug 09, 2018 |
Rebels, turn out your dead!
|
Aug 08, 2018 |
The Saturday Night Massacre
|
Aug 07, 2018 |
The dark history of the pill
|
Aug 06, 2018 |
Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office
|
Aug 03, 2018 |
The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement
|
Aug 02, 2018 |
How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began
|
Aug 01, 2018 |
The first campus shooting
|
Jul 31, 2018 |
How God became part of the pledge
|
Jul 30, 2018 |
How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini
|
Jul 27, 2018 |
The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools
|
Jul 26, 2018 |
The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing
|
Jul 25, 2018 |
The rainless flood that destroyed a city
|
Jul 24, 2018 |
How a renovation made the Supreme Court a friendlier place
|
Jul 23, 2018 |
The Mountaintop
|
Jul 20, 2018 |
The most romantic day
|
Jul 19, 2018 |
The night America burned
|
Jul 18, 2018 |
All the presidents' ghosts
|
Jul 17, 2018 |
Don't mess with Harriet Tubman
|
Jul 16, 2018 |
The epic bender that launched America
|
Jul 13, 2018 |
A Supreme Court justice morally opposed abortion, but voted to legalize it
|
Jul 12, 2018 |
Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career
|
Jul 11, 2018 |
Oregon, America’s first and only state to begin as "whites-only"
|
Jul 10, 2018 |
How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady
|
Jul 09, 2018 |
The time America invaded Britain
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Jul 06, 2018 |
The teen who tied a Virginia election
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Jul 05, 2018 |
Thomas Jefferson's last letter
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Jul 04, 2018 |
The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die
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Jul 03, 2018 |
The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space
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Jul 02, 2018 |
That time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
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Jun 29, 2018 |
The femme fatale
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Jun 28, 2018 |
The first congresswoman’s vote
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Jun 27, 2018 |
How Hollywood’s first major blockbuster revived the KKK
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Jun 26, 2018 |
The first pride parade
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Jun 25, 2018 |
The oldest surviving banjo recording
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Jun 22, 2018 |
The worst presidents
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Jun 21, 2018 |
Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods
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Jun 20, 2018 |
The first shark attacks
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Jun 19, 2018 |
Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet
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Jun 18, 2018 |
This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him
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Jun 15, 2018 |
Thomas Jefferson’s iftar dinner and the long history of Ramadan at the White House
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Jun 14, 2018 |
The biscuit tin
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Jun 13, 2018 |
Before Loving, another interracial couple fought to marry
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Jun 12, 2018 |
The Jedwabne massacre
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Jun 11, 2018 |
Tennis's first goddess
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Jun 08, 2018 |
The White House makeover
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Jun 07, 2018 |
The Order of the Day
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Jun 06, 2018 |
The “temporary insanity” legal defense started with an affair
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Jun 05, 2018 |
History’s most fascinating misquote
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Jun 04, 2018 |
Mourning Bobby Kennedy
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Jun 01, 2018 |
The black power protest that shook the world
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May 31, 2018 |
LBJ's political bombshell
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May 30, 2018 |
One broadcast helped turn Americans against the Vietnam War
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May 29, 2018 |
The performance that saved Johnny Cash's career
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May 28, 2018 |
Publishers hated ‘A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections
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May 25, 2018 |
When Ronald Reagan visited a family targeted by the KKK
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May 24, 2018 |
The Nazi stone
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May 23, 2018 |
Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party
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May 22, 2018 |
The man who filmed JFK's assassination
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May 21, 2018 |
Princess Diana's final hours
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May 18, 2018 |
The enigmatic Prince Philip - separating fact from fiction
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May 17, 2018 |
Wallis Simpson, the last American divorcee who married a British royal
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May 16, 2018 |
The truth is out there
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May 15, 2018 |
John Brown's prophecy
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May 14, 2018 |
She spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it
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May 11, 2018 |
The Sullivan brothers
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May 10, 2018 |
Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy
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May 09, 2018 |
To ban a "Mockingbird"
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May 08, 2018 |
The original Alcoholics Anonymous book was auctioned for millions, but its author was never paid
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May 07, 2018 |
May the Fourth be with you
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May 04, 2018 |
The battle between Old Waddy and the press
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May 03, 2018 |
Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?
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May 02, 2018 |
Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant
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May 01, 2018 |
How the Doomsday Clock came to be
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Apr 30, 2018 |
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day was once just for daughters
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Apr 27, 2018 |
These guys were college jocks - and then became Presidents of the United States
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Apr 26, 2018 |
The only person Hitler loved
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Apr 25, 2018 |
Philadelphia's plumbing revolution: wood pipes
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Apr 24, 2018 |
Chillicothe, Missouri, the town that invented sliced bread
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Apr 23, 2018 |
Barbara Bush’s remarkable commencement address
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Apr 20, 2018 |
The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon
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Apr 19, 2018 |
The history of epic North Korean insults
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Apr 18, 2018 |
Hate the IRS? Blame Abraham Lincoln.
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Apr 17, 2018 |
The mother who made George Washington miserable
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Apr 16, 2018 |
Why Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history
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Apr 13, 2018 |
A letter from home
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Apr 12, 2018 |
Was Mary Todd Lincoln a leaker?
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Apr 11, 2018 |
Winifred Stanley, a forgotten equal pay pioneer
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Apr 10, 2018 |
The invention of sarin
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Apr 09, 2018 |
The spy plane
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Apr 06, 2018 |
The toughest job in politics
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Apr 05, 2018 |
The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
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Apr 04, 2018 |
The Mountaintop
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Apr 03, 2018 |
The books the presidents read
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Apr 02, 2018 |
Egg Roll
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Mar 30, 2018 |
The girl who struck out Babe Ruth
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Mar 29, 2018 |
The first daughters
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Mar 28, 2018 |
Meet the Press
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Mar 27, 2018 |
The man who won World War II
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Mar 26, 2018 |
The children's crusade
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Mar 23, 2018 |
The forbidden question
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Mar 22, 2018 |
The crooked picture
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Mar 21, 2018 |
Lawn wars
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Mar 20, 2018 |
Dr. Spock
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Mar 19, 2018 |
Then they came for me
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Mar 16, 2018 |
The godfather of bracketology
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Mar 15, 2018 |
The Limping Lady
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Mar 14, 2018 |
The first female marine
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Mar 13, 2018 |
The trials and tribulations of being a cat
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Mar 12, 2018 |
Fall back, spring forward
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Mar 09, 2018 |
The glass ceiling
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Mar 08, 2018 |
How are you, Grandmama?
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Mar 07, 2018 |
The night America burned
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Mar 06, 2018 |
And the winner is...
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Mar 05, 2018 |
Special delivery!
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Mar 02, 2018 |
The woman behind Lisa Ben
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Mar 01, 2018 |
The houses built by slaves
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Feb 28, 2018 |
How the NRA began
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Feb 27, 2018 |
The rise of supermarkets
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Feb 26, 2018 |
The Green Book
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Feb 23, 2018 |
The ice queen
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Feb 22, 2018 |
Mrs. Graham
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Feb 21, 2018 |
The electric rivalry
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Feb 20, 2018 |
All the president's ghosts
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Feb 19, 2018 |
Don't mess with Harriet Tubman
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Feb 16, 2018 |
When Olympic silver beats gold
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Feb 15, 2018 |
The most romantic day
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Feb 14, 2018 |
The best birthday card ever
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Feb 13, 2018 |
What hath God wrought?
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Feb 12, 2018 |
Introducing 'Retropod'
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Feb 07, 2018 |