History
Guests: Keith O’Brien, Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo Air shows of the 1920s and 1930s were competitive, dangerous a ...
Air Date: August 22, 2018 10:00 am
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A historian on the Rizzo debate: ‘It comes down to what statues do’
Controversy surrounding the 10-foot-tall statue of former Mayor Frank Rizzo across from City Hall has rekindled in recent weeks
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After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus
Demonstrators toppled "Silent Sam," a monument dedicated to fallen Civil War-era soldiers.
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Delaware professor helps locate World War II ship hidden for 75 years
A team of researchers in Alaska this summer found the stern of the USS Abner Read, which sank after hitting a Japanese mine in 1943.
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Philly’s displaced communities reunite every year to keep neighborhood spirit going
Former rivals from 13th Street and 5th Street now welcome each other, exchanging invites instead of blows, as they reconnect.
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When the Atomic Age began 73 years ago, this Pennsylvania man was there
Charlie Reddig happened to fly his plane over Hiroshima the same day U.S. forces hit it with an atomic bomb. 'What happened to all these people,' he wondered.
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Scientists are ‘Spying On Whales’ to learn how they eat, talk and … walked?
"We live in the golden age of whale science."
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‘Barracoon’ spurs a long-overdue conversation about last known slave-ship survivor
"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" one of the only surviving first-person accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, was published in May.
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Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”
Guests: Deborah Plant, Autumn Womack, Johnnie Hobbes Jr. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo ...
Air Date: July 31, 2018 10:00 am
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North Korea hands over possible remains of U.S. servicemen killed in Korean War
The transfer took place Friday local time, which marks the anniversary of the armistice that halted the Korean War in 1953.
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9/11 victim identified, nearly 17 years later
About 40 percent of victims still await identification.
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A 1918 ‘race war’ and its ties to Philadelphia’s present
Stop and frisk. Changing demographics. A fishy police shooting. Inside a 1918 race riot in Grays Ferry and its parallels to the present.
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Delaware museum looks back at racism, tumult of ’68 — and shadows still stretching over Wilmington
For the fifty-year anniversary of the Wilmington military occupation, the Delaware Art Museum examines how the past reaches its tendrils into the present.
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