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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California Water Wars - “There It Is—Take It” | 3

California Water Wars - “There It Is—Take It” | 3

By 1912, the Los Angeles aqueduct project was nearing completion. But as it approached the finish line, fears were growing among the public of a vast conspiracy, fanned by socialist Job Harriman. With...

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California Water Wars - Building the Dream | 2

California Water Wars - Building the Dream | 2

By 1907, the city of Los Angeles had found a solution to its water problem. Two hundred miles north in the Owens River Valley was a never-ending source of water. Los Angeles Water Department superinte...

29 Jan 202037min

California Water Wars - A River in the Desert | 1

California Water Wars - A River in the Desert | 1

By the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles had grown from a dusty, crime-ridden pueblo into a thriving metropolis. The only problem was that it was growing too fast. With no consistently reliab...

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Kentucky Blood Feud - The Revenge of Bad Tom Baker | 2

Kentucky Blood Feud - The Revenge of Bad Tom Baker | 2

The Civil War forced the warring families of Clay County into an uneasy truce. The Garrards, Whites, Howards, and Bakers found themselves allied as they fought for the Union. But the war brought new c...

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Kentucky Blood Feud - The Murder of Daniel Bates | 1

Kentucky Blood Feud - The Murder of Daniel Bates | 1

The longest and bloodiest feud in American history erupted in the 1840s in Clay County, Kentucky — where it raged for nearly a century and ultimately claimed more than 150 lives. The Clay County War, ...

11 Des 201934min

The Legacy of The Triangle Fire | 5

The Legacy of The Triangle Fire | 5

In September 2019 Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren invoked the memory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire at a campaign rally just a few blocks from the site of fire ...

20 Nov 201939min

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - In America They Don’t Let You Burn | 4

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - In America They Don’t Let You Burn | 4

In the wake of the biggest workplace catastrophe in the city of New York, the survivors of the Triangle fire and the families of the victims could only watch from the sidelines as the case against the...

13 Nov 201941min

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Sixteen Minutes | 3

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Sixteen Minutes | 3

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