Tag: history

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented a way to document sound more than a decade before Thomas Edison developed his wax cylinders. So why isn't he remembered as the king of recording?

A few years back I talked with Virginia Prescott on NHPR's Word of Mouth about concession speeches. And now we're doing it all over again - but this time it's for Georgia Public Broadcasting's "On Second Thought!"

I got an email from a high school student asking historians and history writers "Why does history captivate you?"

This genuinely mind-bending video shows a guy who says he was at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.

Hatefulness didn't kill anyone during the great False National Emergency of February 20, 1971, but it sure did scare the crap out of people in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

LBJ's legacy is not found in the Great Society, nor in the controversies of Vietnam: it's in the bathroom. Johnson loved to pee.

Folks praise the chicken for his determination to live. Then again, he didn't have a head, so he might not have known any better.

It was like a Limp Bizkit concert, only not as undignified.