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The Mother of Level Measurements
Season 2 Episode 39
September 24, 1902. A new cooking school is set to open at Boston’s 30 Huntington Avenue. The rooms will soon be filled with trainee cooks, who will …
4 years, 6 months ago
"The Strangest Gathering of Men"
Season 2 Episode 38
September 15, 1893. About 4,000 people are intently listening to a monk on a stage in Chicago. They’re at an event called Parliament of the World’s R…
4 years, 7 months ago
Blindspot: The Road to 9/11
Season 2
Episode 1: The Bullet. The 9/11 attacks were so much more than a bolt from the blue on a crisp September morning. They were more than a decade in the…
4 years, 7 months ago
9/11: Rescue on the Water
Season 2 Episode 37
September 11, 2001. On a clear and sunny day, Captain Richard Thornton is piloting his ferry boat back and forth between New Jersey and New York City…
4 years, 7 months ago
Shaving Russia
Season 2 Episode 36
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: Sept 5, 1698. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia returns home from …
4 years, 7 months ago
The True Winnie-the-Pooh
Season 2 Episode 35
August 24, 1914. A train pulls up to the lumber town of White River, Ontario, carrying a regiment of Canadian troops on board. On the tracks where th…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
Season 2 Episode 34
August 21, 1911. On a Monday morning, a department store employee on a Paris street sees a man hurrying by. He carries a white-wrapped package and, a…
4 years, 7 months ago
Pop Music Pirates
Season 2 Episode 33
August 14, 1967. Off the coast of England, a group of pirate ships has been fighting to stay afloat. These are pirates of a particular kind—less swor…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Road Less Traveled
Season 2 Episode 32
August 2, 1915. The poem appears in print for the first time this week, from Kentucky to Pennsylvania to Vermont. Every reader is transported to that…
4 years, 8 months ago
Jesse Owens Takes Germany
Season 2 Episode 31
August 1, 1936. The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Adolf Hitler enters the stadium to a militaristic Wagner march. Swastikas flutter everywhe…
4 years, 8 months ago