This week, Scott and Aaron honor historical figures whose sheer laziness led them to world-changing innovations – like bifocals and the accordion, both invented by people who just didn’t feel like shifting back and forth between two things. Also: Daniel Fahrenheit discovers an accurate way to measure temperature; Mary Cassatt becomes a famous Impressionist painter (with a little help from personal privilege); and Harvey Milk becomes a trailblazing LGBTQ pioneer.

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Everything comes full circle this week, as Scott and Aaron remember vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner and evolution teacher John Scopes. (Though Aaron’s not too keen on what Scopes did with his career after he lost his teaching job.) Also, Scott remembers a woman who sailed across the Atlantic (despite limited skills) and another woman who made major contributions to the field of astronomy – despite having no formal education. (And Scott and Aaron learn about the history of vaccination in real time, thanks to a slight date-related confusion.)

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This week, Scott and Aaron remember the 1992 ratification of the 27th Amendment – a process that began with a college student’s paper. Also this week in history: Coca-Cola is invented, originally as a ‘brain tonic’; Congress passes a bill establishing the U.S. post office (and new roads, to facilitate mail delivery); Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel; and famed 19th-century investigative reporter Nellie Bly is born.

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This week in history: the first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus is published, and a tweak to the harpsichord becomes the world’s first piano. Also: legendary writers Harper Lee and Gwendolyn Brooks are born, and the (often-imitated) work of an inventive 19th-century African-American engineer inspires the phrase “the real McCoy.”

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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 historical leaders who were willing to go back to the drawing board and correct mistakes – like the developers of the Hubble telescope (which was blurry at first, thanks to a metric-conversion error) and the signers of a Confederate surrender at Durham’s Bennett Place in 1865. Also: John Wilkes Booth is captured and killed; South Africa holds an historic national election; Coretta Scott King is born in Alabama; and Edward R. Murrow is born in North Carolina.

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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 in history; the Civil War comes to an end in North Carolina; Paul Revere makes his famed midnight ride; the pencil erasure is born, and more.

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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’s a pivotal one in U.S. history, with both the beginning and the end of the Civil War. Also: Congress passes civil rights bills (though the Supreme Court stands in the way of some); North Carolina passes the Halifax Resolves ahead of the American Revolution; and Scott celebrates the first Black woman in America to become a judge.

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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 debut of “Oklahoma,” the first dance marathon, and the first appearance of the peace symbol. Also, we connect new trends with old trends: viral TikTok endurance challenges as the modern-day version of 1920s dance marathons, or online learning as the modern-day version of the 19th- and 20th-century mail-away correspondence courses. Truly, nothing new under the sun.

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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 honor figures who pushed boundaries – including early European explorers and settlers in the Carolinas, the inventor of a ‘fire extinguisher’ that evolved into our modern-day sprinkler systems, and a celebrated writer and women’s rights activist who also influenced the writing of “The Wizard of Oz.” Also: the Fifteenth Amendment is ratified, the song “Happy Birthday” is written, and Scott learns that he’s a Marvel superhero.

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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 historical Americans who fought to make their world a better place. All born this week in history: beloved TV host Fred Rogers, civil rights hero Bayard Rustin – and librarian Clara Breed, who advocated for Japanese kids in World War II internment camps.

Also: an FBI sting operation recovers North Carolina’s original copy of the Bill of Rights, and a Texas secretary invents White-Out.

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