This week, Scott and Aaron remember two 19th-century women whose work focused on lifting people up: Caroline Yale, who developed new techniques for teaching the hearing-impaired, and Elizabeth Gaskell, whose novels focused on the lives of the very poor. Also: a Duke professor becomes a pioneer in the study of ESP and parapsychology, and an American immigrant scores a hit by inventing Cracker Jack.

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.

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