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 Valentine’s week, Scott and Aaron spotlight a pair of fun inventions: the QWERTY keyboard and the square-bottomed paper bag. Also: North Carolinian Harriet Jacobs escapes from slavery, and a heroic woman shelters Anne Frank’s family from the Nazis.

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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.

Leading with a great quotation from Blaise Pascal, Scott remembers numerous great figures in history – including pioneering female physicians Elizabeth Blackwell and Rebecca Lee Crumpler, plus civil rights leader Rosa Parks, Watergate security guard Frank Willis, and the scientist who developed the Heimlich maneuver. Also: the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the importance of organization in successful social movements.

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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 remember a celebrated historian, a legendary crusader for justice, and a great American president – and some perspective on our current situation, from those same three figures. Also: a pioneering paleontologist who made prehistory come alive, and a pivotal moment in U.S. history.

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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.

Scott’s snowbound this week, but he dials in by phone to look back on this week in history – including the passage of the U.S. Constitution’s 24th Amendment, which banned poll taxes as a condition of voting. Scott and Aaron also discuss a trio of great women in history: journalist Nellie Bly, pioneering pilot Bessie Coleman, and “Sound of Music” heroine Maria Von Trapp.

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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 in history: Scott and Aaron look back on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a woman who stood up to the Nazis, famed animal advocate Dian Fossey, a World War II-era ban on sliced bread, and the woman who wrote “King Kong” (a movie Scott may or may not have ever actually seen).

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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’s all about standardization, as Scott and Aaron look back on the development of modern recipes – and modern time zones. Also: the Grand Canyon becomes a national monument; Jimmy Carter sees a UFO; and Scott waxes nostalgic about a long-forgotten, old-timey contraption – the pen?!

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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 looks back on the North Carolina pharmacist (and Latin scholar) who invented Vick’s VapoRub – though it didn’t go by that name at first. Also, a North Carolina sculptor creates the image of FDR that now appears on the dime, and Amelia Earhart actually keeps a New Year’s resolution.

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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 a man who sailed across the Atlantic in a rubber boat and an African-American business pioneer – and tries his best to derail Aaron’s Impossible Quiz. Also: Washington crosses the Delaware, and Clara Barton saves lives.

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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.

Scott and Aaron look back on a busy week in U.S. history – from the Boston Tea Party to the Wright Brothers’ flight. And not only that: this week also brings us North Carolina’s 1776 Declaration of Rights, the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, and the invention of basketball in 1891.

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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 marks the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights – an event Scott commemorates each year with an event in Hillsborough. Sunday, December 15, everyone’s invited to gather at 2 p.m. outside the historic courthouse on King Street – and ring bells for 233 seconds, one for each year since the Bill of Rights was ratified back in 1791. (Hillsborough plays a major role in the Bill of Rights’ history: it was there in 1788 that North Carolina decided not to ratify the Constitution until provisions were made for a Bill of Rights, which pushed Congress to start moving to enact one the following year.)

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