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'21 Favorite: Drafting the Confederate Constitution (1861)
This Thanksgiving week, we’re running some favorite episodes from the year that you may have missed. We’ll be back with new episodes the Tuesday afte…
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'21 Favorite: Oprah's Beef Beef (1996)
This Thanksgiving week, we’re running some favorite episodes from the year that you may have missed. We’ll be back the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
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'21 Favorite: Instant City (1889) w/ Sam Anderson
This Thanksgiving week, we’re running some favorite episodes from the year that you may have missed. We’ll be back the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
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'21 Favorite: The Kerner Alarm (1967) w/ Jelani Cobb
This Thanksgiving week, we’re running some favorite episodes from the year that you may have missed. We’ll be back the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
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Milhouse's Missing Minutes (1973)
It’s November 18th. This day in 1973, the major revelation that there are 18 1/2 minutes missing from the secret recordings Richard Nixon was making …
4 years, 4 months ago
Murkowski's Write-In Surprise (2010)
It’s November 16th. This day in 2010, Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski prevailed in her re-election effort — one in which she was forced to mount a wri…
4 years, 4 months ago
Why Sherman Marched (1864) w/ Anne Sara Rubin
It’s November 14th. This day in 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman left Atlanta and began destructive march to the sea, burning buildings a…
4 years, 4 months ago
Bootlegger Biplane Bombings (1926)
It’s November 11th. This day in 1926, members of the Shelton gang in southern Illinois commandeered a biplane to drop homemade bombs on the hideout o…
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"The Enemy Is The Knife" (1974)
It’s November 9th. This day in 1974, Dr. Connie Redbird Uri testified at a hearing about the practice of forced sterilization at Indian Health Servic…
4 years, 4 months ago
Snatching Lincoln's Body (1876)
It’s November 7th. This day in 1876, a group of Chicago-area men attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body from his grave in Springfield, Illinois, hop…
4 years, 4 months ago