97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

It’s Leap Day, the first one on a Thursday in almost 20 years. Scott and Aaron discuss the origin of Leap Day on the calendar; they explore the history of voting rights and the power (or lack thereof) of the Constitution; and Aaron discusses the weirdness of playing the national anthem before sporting events.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Scott and Aaron discuss the origins of President’s Day in the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln, the signing of a treaty that brings Florida into the U.S., an early civil rights heroine, two men who embarked on a five-year journey – and the foundation of Woolworth’s, which changed shopping forever. (Also, Aaron lobbies for more days off.)

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Aaron and Scott discuss Presidents’ Day, the Ferris wheel, and the invention of the square-bottomed paper bag – and Elizabeth Keckley, whose autobiography Aaron finally read for the first time last month.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Scott and Aaron look back at 1864, when Abraham Lincoln posed for the photo that eventually wound up on the five-dollar bill. Also: the first-ever cross-country airplane flight (which took several months to complete), and a North Carolina woman whose innovations made her famous as “Lady Edison.”

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

A broken car keeps Scott out of the studio, but he joins Aaron by phone to discuss significant moments in American civil-rights history, on the first day of Black History Month – including the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, the Greensboro sit-in in 1960, and Rosa Parks’ brave stand (or brave sit, as it were) in 1954.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate WCHL’s 71st birthday: we first went on the air January 25, 1953. Also: the 24th Amendment bans poll taxes, the 20th Amendment shifts Inauguration Day, the inventor of the Frisbee is born, and John Hancock saves the Constitution.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Scott remembers the time in World War II when a wheat shortage briefly led the U.S. to ban sliced bread. Also: Martin Luther King, Jr. is born (though not originally with that name); two women make their careers by working with great apes; the famous international symbol of peace is created (originally a symbol of the push for nuclear disarmament); and Aaron pleads with people to make the arguments they actually believe, rather than whatever arguments conveniently support their position. (Pet peeve. Big time pet peeve.)

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Scott and Aaron discuss people who made history by fooling around – like Elvis Presley, born this week in 1935, or the Davidson College students who performed America’s first medical X-ray back in 1896. Also: the Treaty of Paris ends the Revolutionary War, a British racing pioneer is born, and Andrew Jackson wins a decisive battle – two weeks after the end of the war.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Scott and Aaron examine the history of January 1 as the first day of the year. Also: local blues legend Elizabeth Cotten is born; Solomon Northup regains his freedom after 12 years in slavery; the Emancipation Proclamation takes effect; and Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his famous “Four Freedoms” speech, with fascism on the rise and World War II looming.

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97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

This week, Scott and Aaron look back on the history of Christmas – including the beloved “12 Days of Christmas” carol. Also, Thomas Edison demonstrates his light bulb, a North Carolina sculptor produces the portrait of FDR that (maybe) appears on the dime, and Amelia Earhart takes her first flight (but not her last).

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