The Wright Brothers | The Art of the Bird | 1

The Wright Brothers | The Art of the Bird | 1

In the late-1890s, two brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, became obsessed with what Wilbur described as “the problem of flight.” With no formal training or funding, they threw themselves into studying the mechanics of birds, determined to design a new method of flying for humans. They soon began building a glider in the small workshop above their bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio.

It wasn’t long before the Wright brothers would travel to North Carolina’s Outer Banks to test their glider. Facing swarming mosquitoes and biting winds, they would risk their lives in their quest to be the first pilots to the sky.

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Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Loaded Weapon | 4

Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Loaded Weapon | 4

Through most of 1941, as fighting raged across Europe, the United States held back from entering the war. That all changed in December, when Japanese fighter planes bombed Pearl Harbor and the nation ...

9 Elo 202340min

Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Separate and Unequal | 3

Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | Separate and Unequal | 3

After the Civil War, America began to rebuild a shattered nation. For the first time, the country could create a society without slavery, and a nation where Black people could forge their own path as ...

2 Elo 202335min

Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Cherokee Cases | 2

Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Cherokee Cases | 2

In the early 1800s, the United States was growing rapidly, seeking land and resources for its expanding population. But the growth threatened Native American communities throughout the East. In the so...

26 Heinä 202340min

Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Predicament of John Marshall | 1

Encore: Supreme Court Landmarks | The Predicament of John Marshall | 1

After the War of Independence, the new American government created the Supreme Court to be the final word on disputes that the states couldn’t settle. But at first, the Court was anything but Supreme....

19 Heinä 202336min

Reconstruction Era | Counter Narratives | 7

Reconstruction Era | Counter Narratives | 7

After Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877, Reconstruction officially came to an end, and the battle to control the narrative began. For the next century, white Southerners espoused the Lost...

12 Heinä 202339min

Reconstruction  Era | The Great Betrayal | 6

Reconstruction Era | The Great Betrayal | 6

In 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden vied for the presidency. But when Election Day was over, no clear winner emerged. Amid reports of voter fraud, intimidation and viole...

5 Heinä 202344min

Reconstruction Era | The Panic | 5

Reconstruction Era | The Panic | 5

On Easter Sunday, 1873, an armed white mob battled a Black militia over control of a courthouse in a rural Louisiana parish. In the end, as many as 150 Black citizens were massacred. It was one the de...

28 Kesä 202341min

Reconstruction Era | The Bloody Chasm | 4

Reconstruction Era | The Bloody Chasm | 4

In 1870, the ratification of the 15th Amendment enshrined Black men’s right to vote in the Constitution. Senator Hiram Revels became the first Black man to serve in Congress. Across the South, Black m...

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