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663: How I Read It
December 7, 2018
Documents you don't normally think of, showing you things you didn't expect.
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479: Little War on the Prairie
November 30, 2018
Originally Aired November 23, 2012
Growing up in Mankato, Minnesota, John Biewen says, nobody ever talked about the most important historical event ever to happen there: in 1862, it was the site of the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Thirty-eight Dakota Indians were hanged after a war with white settlers. John went back to Minnesota to figure out what really happened 150 years ago, and why Minnesotans didn’t talk about it much after.
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204: 81 Words
December 14, 2018
Originally Aired January 18, 2002
The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
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