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South Sea Company - The Original Economic Bubble
In 1720, London was gripped by an investment frenzy.
Companies appeared almost overnight, promising fortunes from everything imaginable—and sometimes…
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Two Days in Berlin 1961 - Cold War (Almost) Turns Hot
On October 27, 1961, ten American tanks and ten Soviet tanks faced each other across Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin—loaded, ready, and separated by bar…
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Seven Days in Korea - To Fight or Not to Fight?
At 4:00 a.m. on June 25, 1950, North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea.
Within days, President Harry Truman moved from …
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Morris - The Forsaken Founder w/ Scott Greenberger
Gouverneur Morris wrote "We the People." He fought slavery on the floor of the Constitutional Convention. Washington turned to him when the army was …
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Eight Days in Manila - When the U.S. Became an Empire
On May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay.
Then the cable went silent.
For nearly a week, Americans had no rel…
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Four Days in April - The Spark of the Civil War
At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
For 34 hours, thousands of shells rained down …
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Six Days in March - The End of the Roman Republic
On March 15, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was stabbed to death by a group of Roman senators who believed they were saving the Republic.
Five days later, thei…
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Eight Days in August - The Collapse of Japan
In the early hours of August 15, 1945, Japanese officers stormed the Imperial Palace.
Their target wasn't the emperor.
It was a phonograph record.
Re…
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The Osage Reign of Terror
In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world, thanks to oil discovered beneath their Oklahoma r…
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The 1927 Bath School Disaster
On May 18, 1927, the small farming community of Bath, Michigan, suffered the deadliest school attack in American history.
Explosives secretly planted…
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