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StoryMarcus Vale1 Oct 20266 min

A Hundred Years Ago, Christmas Started With a Catalog

Raccoons at the White House, candles on the tree, and a whole country waiting on the mail. What the holidays of 1926 can still teach your family.

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423 Years of American History in 13 Minutes

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

StoryWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Lewis and Clark Went Looking for a River That Didn't Exist

Two captains, 8,000 miles, one grave, and a nation that got its answer — just not the one Jefferson wanted.

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StoryMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The Founders Kept Score On Themselves

They rose in the dark, rode their own fields, and wrote down every failure. The men who built America were relentless self-auditors — and they knew what they were missing.