The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
In fall of 1778, British forces shifted their efforts in the American Revolutionary War to the...
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Author Interview: Fashion History With April Calahan
April has two books out about fashion history, one featuring historical fashion plates, and...
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The Great Vowel Shift, or A Brief History of English
Language is alive. It shifts and changes; pronunciations and spellings morph throughout time....
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The Discovery of 'Planet' Ceres
For a long time, astronomers believed that there must have been a planet lurking in the gap...
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Doss was the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor, though he's not the...
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P.A.R.C., Mills and Special Education
Until 1975, children with disabilities in the U.S. weren’t guaranteed the right to a public...
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Hokusai lived during a time when there was not a lot of contact between Japan and the West. But...
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A Condensed History of Rhodesia
In the 1888, Cecil Rhodes and John Smith Moffat duped the king of the Ndebele people into a...
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One of the most infamous aspects of World War I was its long, brutal stalemate along the enormous...
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Resistance to excise taxes levied against U.S. whiskey distilleries in the 1790s led to violence...
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While the Bauhaus school is well known, and its original manifesto proclaimed an environment of...
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13 Reasons for the American Revolution
“No taxation without representation” is often thought of as the cause of main beef that led to...
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Audre Lorde called herself a “black feminist lesbian mother poet warrior,” but for a lot of...
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Calamity Jane is one of those historical figures whose reputation has in many ways eclipsed the...
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In 1756, after a skirmish between the British East India Company and the nawab of Bengal, dozens...
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These are six (more) subjects frequently requested by listeners, but that aren't really workable...
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Macario Garcia was a Mexican-born soldier who served in the U.S. military in WWII, earning a...
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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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People have fermented foods to make alcohol for much of human history. For this episode, when we...
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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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