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Hometown History — 204 episodes

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Tucker, Arkansas: Secrets of Tucker Prison Farm - The Torture Machine

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Little Rock, Arkansas: The Asylum That Buried Thousands in Unmarked Graves

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Jackson, Kentucky: The Lawyer Who Carried His Baby as a Bulletproof Shield

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The Gainesville Tornado: 203 Dead in 3 Minutes

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Jacksonville, Florida: The 1888 Yellow Fever Epidemic That Built Public Health

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Bessemer City, North Carolina: The Ballad Singer the Mill Bosses Couldn't Silence

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Forsyth County, Georgia: The Town Georgia Tried to Bury Twice

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Waterbury, Vermont: The Asylum That Turned a Towns Name Into a Warning

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Riceville, Maine: The Ghost Town Whose Plague Never Happened

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Prudence Island: The Keeper Who Relit the Light After Losing Everything

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Watch Hill, Rhode Island: The Fort Road Massacre That Killed 15

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Deal Beach, New Jersey: 240 Immigrants Drowned 150 Yards From Shore

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Hazardville, Connecticut: When Gunpowder Made—and Destroyed—a Town

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Ord, Nebraska: The Teenage Teacher Who Saved 13 Children in the 1888 Blizzard

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Lewistown, Montana: When the Guide Became the Killer (1889)

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Globe, Arizona: The Curse of Room 18—Two Miners, One Deadly Room

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Taos, New Mexico: The Headless Body in the Fortress Mansion

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East Montpelier, Vermont: The 14-Hour Marriage That Ended in Murder

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Turtle Lake, North Dakota: The Wolf Family Murders of 1920

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Boise City, Oklahoma: The Night America Bombed Its Own Town

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Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery

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Edgefield, South Carolina: The Devil's Bargain Murder Trial of 1850

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Hagerstown, Indiana: The Blind Engineer Who Invented Cruise Control

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Gay Head, Massachusetts: 103 Souls Lost Half a Mile from Shore

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Gauley Bridge, West Virginia: America's Deadliest Industrial Cover-Up

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Wheeling, West Virginia: When Steel Workers Became Radio Stars

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Erie, Pennsylvania: The Wall of Water That Killed 36

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Athens, Tennessee: The 1946 GI Rebellion and the Limits of Armed Reform

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Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created the FBI

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Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's Disease Colony

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Africatown, Alabama: The Last Slave Ship and the Town Built by Survivors

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Exeter, Rhode Island: America's Last Vampire Exhumation

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Ottawa, Illinois: The Radium Girls' Fight for Justice

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Wahpeton, North Dakota: When Lightning Struck the Circus in 1897

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Hickory, North Carolina: The 54-Hour Polio Hospital Miracle of 1944

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How Wabash, Indiana Saved Its Main Street

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American Nursing: How a Profession Was Born from War and Reform

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The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale's War on Death

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London: The Dark Origins of Nursing

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West Virginia: The Vanishing of the Sodder Children

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The American West: The Bone Wars of the 1870s

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Hollywood's Cursed Film: The Rebel Without a Cause Tragedy

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Moscow, Idaho: Psychiana and America's Mail-Order Religion Movement

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New York's Greatest Mystery: Judge Crater's Vanishing

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How a Telegraph Cable Launched Tiffany & Co. to Fame

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Indiana's Ambrose Bierce: The Writer Who Vanished in Mexico, 1913

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White Sulphur Springs: Project Greek Island's Secret Congressional Bunker

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San Francisco's Great Diamond Hoax of 1872

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Homestead, Florida: The Coral Castle Mystery

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Paul Revere: Boston's Revolutionary Propagandist

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Cleveland's Mad Butcher: The Unsolved Torso Murders

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America's Secret Societies: The Benevolent Brotherhood

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America's Japanese Internment After Pearl Harbor

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America's Youngest Serial Killer: Jesse Pomeroy

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When Paradise Becomes Prison: The Rat Utopia Experiment

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The USS Cyclops: America's Greatest Naval Mystery

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The Fox Sisters and the Birth of Spiritualism

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Three Forgotten Wholesome Stories from America

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The Night Doctors: American Medical Terror

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The Hollywood Blacklist: When Fear Silenced the Stars

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Lewis Howard Latimer: The Genius Behind Edison's Bulb

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Hollywood's Scandal That Created Movie Censorship

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How Charles Brush Illuminated a City and Changed America Forever

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Chicago's Haymarket Affair: The Bloody Birth of May Day

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The Philadelphia Experiment: WWII's Invisibility Hoax

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The Battle of Alcatraz: Two Days of Violence

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Anne Bonny and Mary Read: Caribbean's Female Pirates

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Grant's Whiskey Ring: The $3 Million Tax Fraud

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Dayton's Project Blue Book: The UFO Investigation

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San Jose's Mansion Built to Confuse Ghosts

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The First Electric City Tour: Wabash, Indiana (1880)

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Baltimore's Underground Railroad Network

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Roanoke Island: America's First Vanished Colony

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The Scopes Monkey Trial: Evolution on Trial

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Chicago's Crime of the Century: Leopold and Loeb

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When Jacksonville, Florida Was Hollywood

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The Teapot Dome Scandal: When Oil Money Bought Washington

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The Kentucky Meat Shower Mystery

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Edith Wilson: America's Secret President

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Hannah Duston: Colonial America's Dark Heroine

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The Met Museum's Dark History of Art Theft

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Secrets of the Met Museum: The Humble Beginnings

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Virginia Hall: America's Most Dangerous Spy

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Project Sunshine: America's Dark Secret

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The Night Witches: Soviet Women Who Terrorized the Nazis

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North Carolina's Forgotten Gold Rush of 1799

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When Washington Poisoned Prohibition Alcoholv

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Sweet Success: Milton Hershey's Legacy of Generosity

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When Las Vegas Marketed Atomic Bomb Tests

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Las Vegas: From Railroad Stop to Sin City

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West Baden's Impossible Dome and Hidden Stories

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West Baden's Forgotten Palace: The Eighth Wonder of the World

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Gus Grissom and the Dawn of American Spaceflight

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Baltimore's Clown Who Became a Historian

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Terre Haute's Eva Kor: A Holocaust Survivor's Legacy

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From Ashes: The CANDLES Museum's Story of Resilience

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Terre Haute's Holocaust Museum: Survival and Arson

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Florida's Unconquered: The Miccosukee Stand in the Everglades

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Bristol: The Twin Towns That Birthed Country Music

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Brown County, Indiana: How T.C. Steele Created an American Art Colony

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Washington State Gold Panning: Chasing the 1880s Rush in Modern Rivers

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Bean Blossom, Indiana: Inside Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Hall of Fame

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Spencer County, Indiana: How Lincoln's Boyhood Shaped a President

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Lincoln City, Indiana: Abraham Lincoln's Boyhood Years, 1816-1830

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West Columbia, South Carolina: The 1963 Champions' Field Reborn

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West Columbia, South Carolina: The Dust Bowl Champions of 1963

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America's Utopian Communes: The Rise and Fall of Radical Communities

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New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen's Utopian Community Experiment (1825-1827)

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New Harmony, Indiana: The German Commune That Built and Sold a Town

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Wabash, Indiana: The 1826 Treaty That Prevented a Frontier War

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San Francisco's North Beach: The Beat Generation's Bohemian Heart

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San Francisco's Beat Museum: The 1950s Literary Rebellion

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Reno, Nevada: The Six-Week Divorce Capital of America

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St. George, Utah: Hollywood's Deadliest Film Set

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Virginia City, Nevada: The Underground Tunnels Beneath the Silver Boom

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Crescent City, California: Surviving Three Devastating Tsunamis

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San Juan Islands, Washington: The Pig War's Diplomatic Resolution

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San Juan Islands: The Pig War That Nearly Started a US-British Conflict

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Desolation Peak, Washington: Jack Kerouac's 63 Days of Solitude

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Crater Lake National Park: Oregon's Volcanic Wonder and America's Deepest Lake

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Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps: Reviving a Green Legacy

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Lake Mead, Nevada: America's Largest Reservoir and Its Shrinking Future

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Holiday Crossover Special: A Nightmare Before Halloween, Part 2

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Death Valley, California: The Hottest Park and Scenic Nationalism

125

Grand Canyon, Arizona: The Hidden History Behind an American Icon

126

Northern California: The 50-Year Fight to Save the Coastal Redwoods

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Yellowstone National Park: How Art and Artists Created America's First National Park

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Yosemite National Park: America's First Protected Wilderness and Conservation Legacy

129

Welcome to Hometown History

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America's Conservation Presidents: Roosevelt to Carter and the National Park Legacy

131

Fountain City, Indiana: The Underground Railroad's Grand Central Station

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Fountain City, Indiana: The Underground Railroad's Grand Central Station

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Nashville, Tennessee: Enslaved Lives at Jackson's Hermitage

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Nashville's Hermitage: How Andrew Jackson Built Power Through Slavery

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Parker's Crossroads, Tennessee: Nathan Bedford Forrest's Escape

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Nashville, Tennessee: The Full-Scale Parthenon Replica of Music City

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Memphis, Tennessee: Dewey Phillips and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll Radio

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Memphis, Tennessee: Sun Studio's Million Dollar Quartet and Rock's Golden Age

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Sun Studio: Where Rock 'n' Roll Was Born

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Nashville's Fort Negley: The Fortress That Never Fired a Shot

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Memphis: The City That Blues Built

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The Wabash Hanging: 6,000 Witnesses (Part 4)

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The Trial of John Hubbard: Wabash, Indiana (Part 3)

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The Canal Killer of Rich Valley (Part 2)

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The French Family Murders of Wabash (Part 1)

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The Peshtigo Fire: America's Deadliest Wildfire

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Pictured Rocks: Michigan's Climate Refuge (Part 8)

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The Quincy Mine: Michigan's Two-Mile Deep Death Trap (Part 7)

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The Ghost Town of Gay, Michigan (Part 6)

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The Guardian of Phoenix: Michigan's Last General Store (Part 5)

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The Ghost Towns of Michigan's Copper Country (Part 4)

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The Keweenaw Copper Rush: America's First Mining Boom (Part 3)

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The Mackinac Bridge Tragedy (Part 2)

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Upper Peninsula: America's Future Refuge (Part 1)

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Alcatraz East: Crime Museum in the Smokies

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Biltmore Estate: America's Castle & Its WWII Secret

157

The Cherokee: Saving a Dying Language in North Carolina

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The Cherokee's Broken Treaties (Part 1)

159

Oak Ridge's Secret Army: The Calutron Girls (Part 2)

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Oak Ridge: The Secret City That Built the Bomb (Part 1)

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Lepa Radić: Yugoslavia's 17-Year-Old Resistance Fighter

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Indianapolis Moved a Building (With Workers Inside)

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Belle Boyd: The Teenage Spy Who Changed the Civil War

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The Friends of Dorothy Investigation

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Richmond's Spy Mistress: The Elizabeth Van Lew Story

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The Live Burial of Hammond, Indiana

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The Princes in the Tower: London's Darkest Royal Mystery

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The Key That Didn't Work: Bill Russell in Marion

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The Straw Hat Riots of New York

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Lincoln's Gettysburg Disaster

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The Harvard Soldier Who Hated War

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The Courtroom Tragedy: Monica Seles' Near-Fatal Match

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Alexandria: Where Washington Changed History

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The Marshall House Tragedy: Alexandria's First Civil War Deaths

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The Italian Hall Disaster of Calumet

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The Potsdam Giants: Prussia's Regiment of Kidnapped Tall Men

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Madam C.J. Walker: First Self-Made Millionaire, Part 2

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Madam C.J. Walker: From Cotton Fields to Empire (Part 1)

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Robert Smalls Stole a Confederate Ship

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Dispelling Myths: The "Dumb Blonde" Stereotype

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Almeda Huiet: The Forgotten Victim of Rowan, Indiana

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Almeda Huiet: H.H. Holmes' Forgotten Victim

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The Man Who Darkened His Skin to Fight Racism

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Monopoly's Secret Origin: The Woman They Erased

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The Cadaver Synod: Rome's Trial of a Dead Pope

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Lincoln's Springfield Home: The Man Before the Monument

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When the BBC Convinced Millions Spaghetti Grows on Trees

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America's First Free Speech Crisis (1798)

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Franklin's Turkey: America's Almost National Bird

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When More Democracy Means Less Freedom

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The Burning Rag: Delaware's Deadly Powder Mills

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The Witch of Wall Street: Hetty Green's Story

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The Philosopher Who Told Alexander the Great to Move

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The Sailor Who Rejected Nazi Germany

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The Man Who Could Never Stop Eating

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San Francisco's Self-Proclaimed Emperor

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Belle Isle: Detroit's Abandoned Paradise

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Michigan's Sleeping Bear: A Nazi Ship Still Haunts These Waters

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Mackinac Island: Where Cars Were Banned in 1898

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The Fox Islands and the Children of the Snow

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High Island's House of Virgins: Michigan's Cult

202

America's Only King: Beaver Island's James Strang

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The Real Dorothy of Oz: A Bloomington Tragedy

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Wabash's Blinding Light: First Electric City