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The dark history of the pill Aug 06, 2018

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A group of poor women in Puerto Rico were the first test subjects for the birth control pill. Were they guinea pigs or pioneers?

Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office Aug 03, 2018

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Sixty years after Congress welcomed its first woman, it welcomed its first baby.

The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement Aug 02, 2018

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The Boy Scout movement began 110 years ago on a tiny island just off the southern coast of England.

How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began Aug 01, 2018

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The anti-Semitic conspiracy theories surrounding the Rothschild family date all the way back to The Battle of Waterloo.

The first campus shooting Jul 31, 2018

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A professor at The University of Virginia was fatally shot by a student in 1840.

How God became part of the pledge Jul 30, 2018

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For over 50 years, the phrase “under God” was not a part of the Pledge of Allegiance. One sermon changed that.

How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini Jul 27, 2018

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This episode addresses the history of the bikini in, naturally, two parts.

The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools Jul 26, 2018

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Linda Brown and her father Oliver Brown are heroes of the civil rights movement. The backstory of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education is more complicated than what you learned in school.

The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing Jul 25, 2018

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In 1951, a televised Senate hearing caught America’s attention.

The rainless flood that destroyed a city Jul 24, 2018

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It did not rain, at least not in Ellicott City, Md. That’s what made the 1868 flood so bizarre and unexpected.

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