History Teachers Talking

The event that Americans commonly call the "first Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in November 1621. Here is that story and more...

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Join us as we discuss some of the most infamous political assassinations in history whose effects stretched long after the individuals's brutal end.

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The Burr Conspiracy was a plot conceived in 1804 by then already infamous (for killing Alexander Hamilton) Vice President Arron Burr to carve out and lead a new, independent country in the Southwestern United States.

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The Ottoman Empire was once among the biggest military and economic powers in the world. So what happened? And why does it matter?

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Here is the story of the rise and the gruesome fall of Leon Trotsky, one of the early leaders of the Russian Revolution.

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The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.

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Often called "the Lady with the Lamp," Florence Nightingale was a caring nurse and a leader. In addition to writing numerous books, pamphlets, and reports on health-related issues, she is also credited with creating one of the first versions of the pie chart.

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Wife selling, mummy unwrapping, and body snatching; discover the bizarre and freaky Victorian era you never learned about in school.

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An 1896 publicity stunt of a gladiatorial battle of two steam engines that raced toward one another at full speed turned into a tragic train wreck of an idea on a fateful day near Waco, Texas.

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NASA SPINOFFS are one-time NASA technologies that benefit life on Earth in the form of commercial products. Here is a story of a few of them.

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