The Titanic | The Obsession | 4
02 Oct 2024
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After the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, the ocean liner's fame only continued to grow. Today, Lindsay is...
History Daily: Suleiman the Magnificent
30 Sep 2024
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September 30, 1520. Suleiman the Magnificent becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and sets his sigh...
The Titanic | Orphans of the Deep | 3
25 Sep 2024
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On April 16, 1912, shocked survivors of the Titanic made their way to New York aboard the rescue shi...
The Titanic | She's Doomed | 2
18 Sep 2024
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Just past midnight on April 15th, 1912, only 20 minutes after striking an iceberg, the Titanic began...
History Daily: The Wall Street Bombing
16 Sep 2024
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September 16, 1920. A horse-drawn wagon explodes in the middle of New York’s financial district, k...
The Titanic | Unsinkable | 1
11 Sep 2024
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When the RMS Titanic launched in April of 1912, it was the pinnacle of luxury and the largest vessel...
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Ricochet | 5
04 Sep 2024
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In 1981, a gunman fired six shots at Ronald Reagan after the president gave a speech at a Washington...
History Daily: The Great Fire of London Begins
02 Sep 2024
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September 2nd 1666: the Great Fire of London begins in a bakery on Pudding Lane, before quickly spre...
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Three Shots in Dallas | 4
28 Aug 2024
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On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in his presidential limo thro...
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Anarchist at the Exposition | 3
21 Aug 2024
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In September 1901, President William McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New Yo...
History Daily: A Failed Coup in Moscow
19 Aug 2024
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Description: August 19, 1991. A group of Communist Party hardliners attempt to save the collapsing S...
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Murder for Spoils | 2
14 Aug 2024
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On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washing...
Encore: Presidential Assassinations | Protecting POTUS (NEW) | 1
07 Aug 2024
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The job of guarding the President’s life belongs to the men and women of the United States Secret ...
History Daily: The Lonesome Cowboys Raid
05 Aug 2024
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August 5, 1969. Police in Atlanta, Georgia raid a screening of Andy Warhol’s underground film Lone...
First Ladies | No Handbook | 6
31 Jul 2024
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There’s no job description for the role of First Lady of the United States. Betty Ford described i...
First Ladies | Michelle Obama | 5
24 Jul 2024
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In the summer of 1989, Michelle Robinson was an up and coming lawyer at a Chicago law firm when she ...
History Daily: The End of the Warsaw Ghetto
22 Jul 2024
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July 22, 1942. The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, transporting hundreds of thousan...
First Ladies | Betty Ford | 4
17 Jul 2024
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In 1974, Betty Ford was thrust onto the world stage when Richard Nixon resigned and her husband, Ger...
First Ladies | Eleanor Roosevelt | 3
10 Jul 2024
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In 1905, Eleanor Roosevelt married her distant cousin Franklin, beginning a remarkable and complicat...
First Ladies | Mary Todd Lincoln | 2
03 Jul 2024
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In 1842, Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois after a stormy romance. Despite ...
First Ladies | Martha Washington | 1
26 Jun 2024
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In 1757, 26-year-old Martha Dandridge Custis was the wealthiest widow in Virginia when she caught th...
History Daily: The End of the Münster Rebellion
24 Jun 2024
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June 24, 1535. A radical political uprising comes to an end when the city of Münster falls to an Bi...
Benjamin Franklin | The Flame of Liberty | 2
19 Jun 2024
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In the spring of 1775, Benjamin Franklin left London for America after years of fruitless attempts t...
Benjamin Franklin | Join or Die | 1
12 Jun 2024
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In 1723, a teenage Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia ready to reinvent himself. He was a pen...
History Daily: The First Execution of the Salem Witch Trials
10 Jun 2024
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June 10, 1692. Accusations of witchcraft spark hysteria in a town in Massachusetts, leading to...
The Hidden History of the White House | 1
05 Jun 2024
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The new book from American History Tellers, The Hidden History of the White House: Power Struggles, ...
The Pinkerton Detective Agency | Behind The Brand | 4
29 May 2024
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Allan Pinkerton started the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to catch robbers, counterfeiters and...
History Daily: A B-24 Crash Survivor Begins a Fight for Survival
27 May 2024
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May 27, 1943: A B-24 bomber crashes in the Pacific Ocean, beginning a two year ordeal at sea and in ...
The Pinkerton Detective Agency | The Public Eye | 3
22 May 2024
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By the late 1800s, the Pinkerton Detective Agency faced public criticism for their anti-labor practi...
The Pinkerton Detective Agency | Brothers and Sons | 2
15 May 2024
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In the mid-1870s the Pinkerton Detective Agency’s fame was growing, and founder Allan Pinkerton be...
History Daily: The Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II
13 May 2024
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May 13th 1981: Pope John Paul II is shot in a mysterious assassination plot with potential ties to t...
The Pinkerton Detective Agency | "We Never Sleep" | 1
08 May 2024
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In the early 1850s, Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton stumbled upon a counterfeiting operation whil...
World War I | "Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken" | 5
01 May 2024
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After the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, America scrambled to assemble boot ca...
History Daily: Rock Musical Rent Debuts on Broadway
29 Apr 2024
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April 29, 1996. New musical Rent premieres on Broadway, only a few months after the death of the sho...
World War I | The Eleventh Hour | 4
24 Apr 2024
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In the summer of 1918, the U.S. successfully led a critical offensive in northern France, finally gi...
World War I | The Spring Offensive | 3
17 Apr 2024
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In January 1918, after months of preparation and planning, American troops finally started to arrive...
History Daily: The Hillsborough Stadium Disaster
15 Apr 2024
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April 15, 1989: A crowd crush at a soccer game at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England leads t...
World War I | The Yanks Are Coming | 2
10 Apr 2024
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In the spring of 1917 the U.S. moved closer to entering the Great War. German submarines resumed att...
World War I | Preparedness | 1
03 Apr 2024
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In June 1914, a gunman assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungar...
History Daily: The Hale-Bopp Comet
01 Apr 2024
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April 1, 1997. The Hale-Bopp Comet reaches the closest point to the sun on its long loop through spa...
Encore: Lewis and Clark I The Long Way Home | 3
27 Mar 2024
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After 18 months and over two thousand miles, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery had reached the ...
Encore: Lewis and Clark I Across the Rockies | 2
20 Mar 2024
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In the spring of 1805, Lewis and Clark resumed their journey up the Missouri River in search of the ...
History Daily: The Execution of the Last Grand Master of the Knights Templar
15 Mar 2024
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March 18, 1314. Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the sta...
Encore: Lewis and Clark I Into the Wild | 1
13 Mar 2024
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In 1803, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began a westward journey that would transform A...
The Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman’s Goodbye Song | 5
06 Mar 2024
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In 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped her enslaver in Maryland and freed herself. Over the next several ye...
The Underground Railroad | Journey’s End | 4
28 Feb 2024
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In December 1850, Harriet Tubman saved three family members from an auction block in a daring rescue...
The Underground Railroad | Crossing the Line | 3
21 Feb 2024
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On the morning of April 16th, 1848, dozens of Washington, D.C. slaveowners woke up to find that thei...
History Daily: The Battle of Lugdunum
20 Feb 2024
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February 19, 197 CE. Septimius Severus' victory at the Battle of Lugdunum finally establishes him as...
The Underground Railroad | Vigilance | 2
14 Feb 2024
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In the 1830s, abolitionism became a political force to be reckoned with. In the face of harassment a...
The Underground Railroad | The Light of Freedom | 1
07 Feb 2024
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In the early 1800s, slavery rapidly expanded across the American South. But each year, thousands of ...
The Manhattan Project | 'Oppenheimer' with Kai Bird | 4
31 Jan 2024
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Following the success of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. sought to develop a potentially more powerf...
The Manhattan Project | Devastating Success | 3
24 Jan 2024
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In Spring of 1945, the tides of World War 2 turned. Germany surrendered to the Allies, but Japan vow...
History Daily: The Northern Cheyenne Face Off Against the US Army
22 Jan 2024
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January 22, 1879. After years of displacement, the northern Cheyenne, led by Chief Morning Star, fac...
The Manhattan Project | Secret Cities | 2
17 Jan 2024
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In Spring of 1943, hundreds of scientists and technicians moved to a remote location in the mou...
The Manhattan Project | Chain Reaction | 1
10 Jan 2024
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In December 1938, a team of German physicists achieved an astonishing scientific breakthrough: they ...
Great American Authors | The Enduring Message of James Baldwin | 7
03 Jan 2024
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In 1948, James Baldwin left for France, hoping to find an escape from the racism he experienced in A...
Great American Authors | Harper Lee: Mockingbird | 6
27 Dec 2023
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In 1949, aspiring writer Nelle Harper Lee moved from her home in small-town Alabama to New York City...
Great American Authors | James Baldwin: The Exile | 5
20 Dec 2023
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Born into poverty in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin rose to become a celebrated novelist, essayist, p...
History Daily: The “Christmas Bombing” of North Vietnam
18 Dec 2023
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December 18, 1972. After peace talks break down, US President Richard Nixon announces the start of t...
Great American Authors | John Steinbeck: The Observer | 4
13 Dec 2023
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Growing up in the Salinas Valley of Northern California, John Steinbeck dreamed of becoming a profes...
Great American Authors | Mark Twain: Voice of a Nation | 3
06 Dec 2023
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In the late 1850s, a young man named Samuel Clemens started out piloting steamboats on the Mississip...
History Daily: Pan Am Shuts Down for Good
04 Dec 2023
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December 4, 1991. After 64 years dominating the skies, a series of poor financial decisions forces P...
Great American Authors | Louisa May Alcott: The Breadwinner | 2
29 Nov 2023
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In 1840, eight-year-old Louisa May Alcott moved to the small town of Concord, Massachusetts with her...
Great American Authors | Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Macabre | 1
22 Nov 2023
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In February 1826, 17-year-old Edgar Allan Poe was a promising student at the University of Virginia....
History Daily: Fire at Windsor Castle
20 Nov 2023
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November 20, 1992. After a year of bad press for Britain's royals, Windsor castle catches fire, rais...
1906 San Francisco Earthquake | Out of the Ruins | 4
15 Nov 2023
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After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire reduced the city to rubble and ash, reporters fanne...
1906 San Francisco Earthquake | The Last Stand | 3
08 Nov 2023
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In the wake of a devastating earthquake that rocked the city of San Francisco, thousands of people w...
1906 San Francisco Earthquake | The Sky Burned | 2
01 Nov 2023
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Less than 24 hours after a devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, fires were raging across the...
1906 San Francisco Earthquake | The Earth Shook | 1
25 Oct 2023
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In the early morning hours of April 18th, 1906, residents of San Francisco were awakened by the viol...
Salem Witch Trials | A Descendant Remembers | 5
18 Oct 2023
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In the midst of the public hysteria surrounding the Salem Witch Trials, a respected Puritan woman na...
History Daily: The Unearthing of the Cardiff Giant
16 Oct 2023
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October 16, 1869. An American trickster masterminds the discovery of a mysterious petrified giant in...
Salem Witch Trials | A Great Delusion | 4
11 Oct 2023
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By September 1692, the witch panic in Salem, Massachusetts had sent 11 women and men to the gallows....
Salem Witch Trials | Specter of Injustice | 3
04 Oct 2023
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In May 1692, William Phips, the new royal governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, sailed into Bost...
Salem Witch Trials | The Devil Against Us | 2
27 Sep 2023
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By the first week of March 1692, three Salem women had been jailed for witchcraft, and accusations c...
Salem Witch Trials | An Evil Hand | 1
20 Sep 2023
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In January 1692, two young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts began behaving strangely. They scre...
Encore: The WWII Home Front | United We Win | 2
13 Sep 2023
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As the nation’s factories and shipyards ramped up production for the war, the demand for labor exp...
Encore: The WWII Home Front | Arsenal of Democracy | 1
06 Sep 2023
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On December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese warplanes rained death and destruction down on the U.S. na...
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Jane Roe | 7
30 Aug 2023
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In 1970, a 22-year-old woman in Texas named Norma McCorvey tried and failed to get an abortion from ...
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | A Recount in Florida | 6
23 Aug 2023
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The morning of Nov. 8, 2000, Americans woke up to an undecided election. Pollsters had predicted a c...
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Warren Court | 5
16 Aug 2023
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Before the 1950s, the Supreme Court was best known as an institution that adhered to the status quo....
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Loaded Weapon | 4
09 Aug 2023
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Through most of 1941, as fighting raged across Europe, the United States held back from entering the...
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Separate and Unequal | 3
02 Aug 2023
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After the Civil War, America began to rebuild a shattered nation. For the first time, the country co...
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Cherokee Cases | 2
26 Jul 2023
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In the early 1800s, the United States was growing rapidly, seeking land and resources for its expand...
Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Predicament of John Marshall | 1
19 Jul 2023
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After the War of Independence, the new American government created the Supreme Court to be the final...
Reconstruction Era | Counter Narratives | 7
12 Jul 2023
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After Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877, Reconstruction officially came to an end, and ...
Reconstruction Era | The Great Betrayal | 6
05 Jul 2023
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In 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden vied for the presidency. But when...
Reconstruction Era | The Panic | 5
28 Jun 2023
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On Easter Sunday, 1873, an armed white mob battled a Black militia over control of a courthouse in a...
Reconstruction Era | The Bloody Chasm | 4
21 Jun 2023
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In 1870, the ratification of the 15th Amendment enshrined Black men’s right to vote in the Constit...
Reconstruction Era | Impeachment | 3
14 Jun 2023
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In the spring of 1867, over President Andrew Johnson’s veto, the Republican-controlled Congress pa...
Reconstruction Era | The Radical Revolution | 2
07 Jun 2023
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In December 1865, the first postwar Congress convened in Washington, D.C. With Black Southerners sti...
Reconstruction Era | From the Ashes of War | 1
31 May 2023
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In the spring of 1865, the United States celebrated the end of four years of Civil War. As American ...
United Farm Workers | The Fall | 3
24 May 2023
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By the early 1970s the United Farm Workers had won a series of successes in California and were atte...
United Farm Workers | The Grape Strike | 2
17 May 2023
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In 1964, the United States finally ended the controversial Bracero Program, which had flooded Americ...
United Farm Workers | Birth of a Movement | 1
10 May 2023
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In the 1940s and ‘50s, farm laborers in California, many of them Mexican and Filipino, faced low w...
Boston Molasses Disaster | The Legend and the Legacy | 2
03 May 2023
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The 1919 Molasses Flood was a terrifying and telling moment in the history of Boston’s North End. ...
Boston Molasses Disaster | A Deadly Deluge | 1
26 Apr 2023
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On January 15, 1919 a giant storage tank holding more than two million gallons of molasses collapsed...
Hawai'i's Journey to Statehood | Lost Kingdom | 5
19 Apr 2023
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After she was deposed by powerful American business interests, Hawai’i’s Queen Liliʻuokalani li...
Hawai'i's Journey to Statehood | Day of Infamy | 4
12 Apr 2023
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On December 7, 1941, Hawai’i was hit by one of the most unexpected military assaults in modern war...
Hawaiʻi's Journey to Statehood | Waves of Change | 3
05 Apr 2023
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After Hawai’i became a U.S. Territory in 1900, tourism to the islands exploded. Luxury steamships ...
Hawaiʻi's Journey to Statehood | The Pineapple King | 2
29 Mar 2023
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In the early 1900s, an enterprising young American named James Dole introduced pineapples to a windy...