History
Remembering The Beatles’ rooftop gig, 50 years later, with someone who was there
Fifty years ago today, on Jan. 30, 1969, The Beatles gave what would be their final concert.
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The strange history of the Myers-Briggs personality test
Author Merve Emre discusses her new book "The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing."
Air Date: January 29, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Haverford exhibits the color of America, circa 1940
The first photo project to show the colors of America, circa 1940, was commissioned by the U.S. government but never exhibited until now.
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Listen 3:06Auschwitz survivors pay homage as world remembers Holocaust
Recent surveys show that knowledge of the atrocities during World War II is declining generally.
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Newseum bought by Johns Hopkins for $372.5 million
The Newseum is losing its stately glass-and-steel digs. The organization behind the journalism museum, The Freedom Forum, says it has reached a $372.5 million deal.
7 years ago
How Philadelphia renders Black history invisible
But before 1990, there were only two markers associated with African American history installed in Philadelphia.
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Political dysfunction since 1974
Marty talks with historians Julian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse, who believe the current polarization in America can be traced back to 1974.
Air Date: January 22, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:01Martin Luther King Jr. National Park reopens for holiday, thanks to a private grant
The deal allows the park to avoid the awkward possibility that it would be closed on the federal holiday honoring King.
7 years ago
For Girard College’s MLK Day of Service, a focus on solutions to gun violence
The 24th annual Martin Luther King Day of Service at Girard College brought 4 to 5,000 volunteers to the historic school in North Philadelphia.
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Before black lung, The Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster killed hundreds
Almost 90 years ago, thick clouds of dust blurred the eyes and choked the lungs of workers inside the tunnel.
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‘I gave up hope’: As girls, they were jailed in squalor for protesting segregation
The day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech in August 1963, a lesser known moment in civil rights history was unfolding in southern Georgia.
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The death of the Delaware River
Industrial growth and raw sewage in the region in the 20th century killed aquatic life in much of the Delaware River and surrounding streams.
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Listen 7:08Pre-Revolutionary War newspaper found in a Goodwill store sold to public archive
A 1774 copy of the Pennsylvania Journal, advocating revolution, was discovered in a South Jersey thrift store. It will enter the American Philosophical Society.
7 years ago
The longest government shutdown in history, no longer — how 1995 changed everything
It took three full weeks for President Bill Clinton and the Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to settle an impasse that partially shut down the government.
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Technology brings images of Holocaust survivors to life
Max Glauben, who turns 91 on Monday, is the latest Holocaust survivor to record an interactive testimony for the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation.
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