American history in History

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StoryWes Dunbar4 Oct 20267 min

Before Paul Bunyan Was an Ad, He Was a Few Thousand Real Men

The north woods camps ran on pine, pancakes and nerve. They built the Midwest, nearly burned it down, and left a lesson in how to clean up after yourself.

A Hundred Years Ago, Christmas Started With a Catalog

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423 Years of American History in 13 Minutes

GuideDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

Seven Historic Stops Worth Making the Kids Sit in the Car

Valley Forge to the Alamo, the places where the story actually happened, what to see when you get there, and the parts nobody puts on the brochure.

StoryNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Harriet Tubman Walked Back Into Maryland Thirteen Times

She had a fractured skull, a price on her head, and a revolver in her bag. She went back anyway, and she never lost a passenger.

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StoryDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

The Men Who Built Your Ordinary Tuesday

Edison sold a system, not a bulb. Ford sold a price, not a car. Both changed how Americans live, and both left a record worth reading whole.

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How to Find Your Ancestors Without Paying for It

A burned warehouse in St. Louis, the 1950 census, and the county courthouse that still has your great-grandfather's signature on file.

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StoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Easy Company From Currahee to the Eagle's Nest

They ran a Georgia mountain until they hated it, then jumped into Normandy in the dark. What happened to Easy Company, and what the legend leaves out.

StoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The Ten-Dollar Runaway and Other Presidents Who Had Nothing

A pawned watch, a canal-boat mule driver, and a tailor's apprentice with a bounty on his head. The log cabin story is a campaign prop, except when it isn't.

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StoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The Two Hours at Pearl Harbor and the Answer That Followed

A destroyer fired the first shot at 6:45 in the morning. What happened over the next three years is the part worth telling.

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StoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Lincoln Hired the Men Who Thought He Was a Fool

He ran a cabinet full of rivals, a war he was losing, and a country that hated itself. The record shows exactly how he did it.

StoryWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Ten Miles of Track in One Day

On April 28, 1869, a crew in the Utah desert broke a record nobody has broken since. Getting there took seven years, a mountain of granite, and men who kept showing up.

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StoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Gettysburg and the Three Days That Decided a Nation

A cavalry officer decided to buy time on a ridge outside a Pennsylvania farm town, and 51,000 men paid for it.

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StoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The Moon Race Was a Thriller and Nobody Knew How It Ended

Two weeks before Apollo 11 lifted off, the Soviet moon rocket blew up and took its launch pad with it. Almost nobody in America knew.

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StoryRay Okonkwo23 Sept 20265 min

The Habits That Got a Generation Through the Great Depression

Thirty dollars a month, twenty-five of it mailed home. What the 1930s actually taught the people who lived them, hard parts included.

StoryNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The Pioneer Women Who Wrote It All Down

Cholera, a sod roof that leaked for three days, a birth at the end of the trail, and a hotel built on a ten-dollar biscuit. Their own record, in their own hands.