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The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 1
In August 1835, the New York Sun ran a series about some utterly mind-blowing discoveries made by...
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Immigration History: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Part 2
The second half of our interview with Dr. Annie Polland from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum...
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S.A. Andrée and the 1897 North Pole Balloon Mission
Andrée hoped to succeed in reaching the North Pole where others had failed by doing it by air....
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The famed Battle of the Alamo was toward the end of the Texas Revolution — a sort of pivot just...
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The St. Kitts Slave Revolt of 1834
Until the 1830s, the dominant industry on St. Kitts was sugar, and the majority of the people...
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The Wright Brothers: An Interview With David McCullough
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, talks about his research and discoveries...
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Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hop, Part 2
Once Manning became a professional dancer and choreographer, his work took him all over the...
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A Brief History of Time Capsules
People feel very strongly about time capsules, even though the contents are often a little...
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The American Hippo Ranch Plan, Part 2
Once the effort to import hippos to the U.S. got the backing of a politician, two men with wild...
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Marion Carstairs, who preferred the name Joe, was an early 20th-century heiress who bucked...
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These are six (more) subjects frequently requested by listeners, but that aren't really workable...
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Franz Liszt was a pianist, a composer and a conductor, and basically the first rock star who...
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A Brief History of Redlining, Part 1
Redlining is a word used to describe a lot of different patterns of economic discrimination. But...
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A Brief History of Redlining, Part 2
Part two of this discussion of redlining explores the language that assessors used when making...
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Christopher Lee wasn’t just a film star – he was, by any account, an amazing man. He spoke...
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Linda Hazzard and Starvation Heights
Hazzard had no medical training but called herself a doctor. Her patients often signed over all...
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Author Interview: Jason Surrell and The Haunted Mansion
To celebrate the Halloween season with a little Disney flair, Holly chatted with the author of...
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Gilles Garnier, the Werewolf of Dole
Sixteenth-century France had a serious case of werewolf panic. Did Garnier really transform into...
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The Harlem Hellfighters and Henry Johnson
In WWI, a black U.S. Army unit became one of the most decorated of the war. When these soldiers...
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