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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Greg Daugherty

    The Surprising History of the Ukulele | HISTORY (opens the original)

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    Its story begins thousands of miles away from Hawaii. Today, the ukulele—a small, four-stringed instrument resembling a miniature guitar—is as closely associated with Hawaii as hula dancing, flower leis and macadamia nuts. But the instrument’s history begins thousands of miles away from the Hawaiian Islands. “For something that’s so popular, it’s one of the most misunderstood instruments that’s ever been,” says Matthew W. Hill, Gretsch curator at the Georgia Southern University Museum. In part t

  2. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Greg Daugherty

    What Was the Deadliest Maritime Disaster in History? | HISTORY (opens the original)

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    The torpedoing of the German ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 led to the deaths of some 9,000 men, women and children. The Wilhelm Gustloff in June 1940, when it served as a hospital ship during the war. The deadliest maritime disaster of all time wasn’t the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 or the Lusitania in 1915. That unfortunate distinction belongs to a more recent, but far less famous, catastrophe: the torpedoing of the German ocean liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945. While no one will ever k

  3. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Greg Daugherty

    How Mail-Order Brides Helped Settle the American West | HISTORY (opens the original)

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    The women who answered lonely pioneers' newspaper ads didn't just find husbands—they helped build frontier communities. A young couple poses for their wedding photograph on the prairie in Nebraska, 1890s. When news got out in 1848 that gold had been discovered in California, Americans began the largest mass migration in U.S. history. Some fortune hunters arrived with little more than a knapsack. Others brought wagonloads of mining supplies, camping gear and enough food for the long journey west.

  4. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Greg Daugherty

    How Ralph Nader Changed Car Safety in America | HISTORY (opens the original)

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    After Unsafe at Any Speed exposed dangerous automobile design flaws, Ralph Nader helped spur federal car-safety standards that transformed America’s automobiles. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee about car safety, March 1967. Ralph Nader was a little-known 31-year-old lawyer living in a Washington, D.C., boarding house in 1965 when he published Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. The book not only made him famous—it

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