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Continue reading →: A Disaster Foretold: The Johnstown FloodThe Gilded Age elite, including Carnegie and Frick, owned the dam that collapsed and unleashed 4.8 billion gallons of water on Johnstown, killing thousands. Discover the shocking story of wealth, hubris, and America’s deadliest disaster. #History #Pennsylvania #JohnstownFlood #GildedAge #ClaraBarton
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Continue reading →: Camp Nelson: The Union’s Depot, A People’s SanctuaryAt Camp Nelson, a military fortress became a powerful symbol of emancipation. This is the story of how enslaved men and their families fought for freedom, turning a place of war into a beacon of human dignity. #CivilWar #History #CampNelson #VisitKentucky
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Continue reading →: Sam Spade: From Hard-Boiled Icon to Red Scare VictimStep into Sam Spade’s shadowy world: the definitive hard-boiled detective. The Maltese Falcon and his iconic radio show captivated millions until the chilling ‘Red Scare’ snared its star. Explore this thrilling intersection of noir, broadcasting, and America’s tumultuous past. #SamSpade #OTR #FilmNoir #OldTimeRadio #TheMalteseFalcon #HumphreyBogart
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Continue reading →: America’s First Job: How We Got the NewsFrom the shouting newsboy on a chaotic city street to the quiet paperboy on a suburban lawn, these two figures tell a compelling story about a changing America. #History #AmericanHistory #Newspaper
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Continue reading →: When News Became Theatre: The Story of The March of TimeBefore cable news, there was The March of Time. This groundbreaking radio newsreel used celebrity actors like Orson Welles and Art Carney, and dramatic sound to turn global events into a national spectacle. #TheMarchofTime #History #OldTimeRadio #RadioHistory #OTR #GoldenAgeofRadio #MediaHistory
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Continue reading →: 15 Days: The Last Stand of Wake IslandTrapped on a remote Pacific atoll, a small garrison of Marines fought for 15 desperate days against the full might of the Imperial Japanese Navy, forging a legendary example of courage. #History #WWII #WakeIsland #USMC #USHistory
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Continue reading →: One Town, Many Tables: A Christmas StoryOn a freezing Christmas Eve in the 1920s, Connellsville’s miners and families turned hardship into hope, blending old-world traditions with coal-town grit to create a night of remarkable unity. #Christmas #CoalRegion #Connellsville #AmericanHistory #AppalachianHistory
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Continue reading →: The Silence of Ash Street: WWII’s Western Union BoysExperience a day in the life of the WWII Western Union boys—teenage messengers tasked with delivering wartime telegrams and confronting the harshest realities of loss on the American home front. #WWII #History #WesternUnion #MessengerBoys #HomeFront #AmericanHistory #UntoldHistory #WWIIStories
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