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November 8, 2026
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Attacked Slavery With a Sword, Fake Blood, and Absolutely No Subtlety
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November 5, 2026
In 1897, the Post Office Sent a Live Cat Through a Tube—Because Progress
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November 1, 2026
When the Chief Justice Got the Presidential Oath Wrong, a 13-Year-Old Girl Called Him Out
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October 30, 2026
E-COM and NetPost: When the Post Office Looked at Email and Asked, “Could We Make This Slower?”
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October 29, 2026
Benjamin Franklin’s Glass Armonica: The Musical Instrument That Could Drive You Mad (According to People Who Were Probably Mad)
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October 27, 2026
The Pony Express and Abraham Lincoln: How the 1860 Election Results Raced Across America on Horseback
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October 26, 2026
Almon Strowger: The Undertaker Who Thought Someone Was Stealing His Dead Customers—and Reinvented the Telephone
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October 23, 2026
America’s First Airmail Flight Was a Spectacular Failure—30 Miles in the Wrong Direction and a Train Ride to Finish
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October 22, 2026
The Iron Riders: How Buffalo Soldiers Rode 1,900 Miles So the Army Could Decide It Didn’t Need Bicycles
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October 20, 2026
Mary Walton: The Woman Who Quieted New York’s Trains After Thomas Edison Couldn’t
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October 18, 2026
The Federal Tea Tasters: For 99 Years, the U.S. Government Paid People to Drink Tea—and It Took an Act of Congress to Make Them Stop
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October 15, 2026
Abraham Lincoln: The Man Who Never Met His Intellectual Equal
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October 8, 2026
USS Recruit: The Battleship That Never Touched Water
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October 7, 2026
Pedestrianism: How a Lost Presidential Election Bet Created One of America’s First Sports Celebrities
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October 5, 2026
The 11 Strangest Supreme Court Cases in American History: Tomatoes, Stolen Airplanes, and Terrified Chickens
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