During the French Revolution a French baron attempted to establish a colony of Frenchmen in...
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During the French Revolution a French baron attempted to establish a colony of Frenchmen in...
11:56
Explorer, surveyor, soldier and Indian agent are all jobs held by Joseph Martin. He also built a...
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During World War I a wealthy playboy from Philadelphia refused induction into the U. S. Army...
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Today we tell the story of an East Tennessee man who realized after 20 years of marriage that he...
11:18
On April 11, 1946, Earl McFarland was captured by the FBI at the corner of Gay Street and...
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The Scopes Monkey Trial, Part Two
In 1925 the state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach the theory...
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The Scopes Monkey Trial, Part One
In 1925 the state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act, which made it illegal to teach the theory...
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Today we go back and retell one of our favorite stories, about a very odd occurrence at a farm in...
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Prior to the Civil War the Clay family of Kentucky was one of the nation’s most prominent...
11:58
George Washington’s Lost Colony
After the French and Indian War the governor of Virginia awarded veterans land in the western...
14:47
In 1938 a family had an encounter with an Appalachian ghost when young Bertha Sybert’s bed began...
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In 1949 a gang robbed the Bank of Follansbee, near Weirton, West Virginia, of $5,400.00 and made...
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The Marshall University Plane Crash
The Memorial Fountain to the plane crash. By Wv funnyman – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,...
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New Straitsville, Ohio, was founded as a coal town in the Hocking Valley after the Civil War....
10:58
The Greeneville Cholera Epidemic of 1873
In the 1870s cholera swept throughout the south, eventually reaching the home of a former...
15:36
Loyalties were divided in Appalachia, from Kentucky to Tennessee to North Carolina. And it was in...
10:24
Appalachia And The First Anti-Lynching Law
Wise County, Virginia, saw very little racial violence after the Civil War. In fact, up until...
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Firefighters responding to a house fire in Canton, Pennsylvania, in 1896 were stunned by what...
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Mason Evans was a schoolteacher and principal in McMinn County, in southeast Tennessee. After his...
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The bloody legacy of the Civil War lived on in Appalachia up until the beginning of the 20th...
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Rashid Khalidi joins Tavis Smiley
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