The concept of retirement took hold after President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted the Social Security Act of 1935.
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Author & Historian Debbie Kilroy reveals more about one of the greatest corruption scandals to rock the UK involving future Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
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Jud Suss was a despicable propaganda film that hastened the Nazi genocide against "European Jewry."
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Pieces of the prized British relic were chipped off during an 1950 heist. Now people are coming forward with those fragments—shedding new light on the stone's history.
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New documents reveal a Founder’s evolution
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The 1947 decision to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey to secure the eastern Mediterranean from Soviet influence reflects a more unified era in American politics, when the need to counter external threats was acknowledged by both Democrats and Republicans
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The riots happened more than a year before the Boston Tea Party.
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How do "For All Mankind"'s six decades of space exploration "history" compare with the real thing?
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From myth-busting takes on iconic events to intimate accounts of everyday life, these books on the American Revolutio...
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As the United States expanded into a global superpower, it simultaneously strengthened its national borders and began to limit who could come in and out of the country. In this week’s episode, the story of how one of the very first walls meant to divide people was built on the US Southern border. To access bonus episodes and listen to Throughline sponsor-free, subscribe to Throughline+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/throughline.
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The story of the clean-up at the world’s worst nuclear accident in Ukraine in April 1986
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Discover what happened on this day in American history. Daily historical events, milestones, and stories that shaped the nation.
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The first of the Jewish-Roman wars was interrupted by one of the defining events of the 1st century, and gave birth to one of ancient Rome’s most powerful dynasties
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The Most Misunderstood Woman in History
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A German Army officer activated a bomb disguised as two bottles of Cointreau orange liqueur, handed the package to an unsuspecting member of Adolf Hitler’s staff, and watched it get loaded onto the Führer’s plane at Smolensk on the Eastern Front.
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What does the wealth of books, documentaries and dramas about the Chernobyl disaster tell us that history alone cannot?
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Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) was a self-styled holy man and faith healer from Siberia who ingratiated himself with the family of Tsar Nicholas II (reign 1894-1917). Rasputin was particularly valued...
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Rest of World News: Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery within the historic grounds of Scarborough Castle, they have found a Cold War nuclear bunker that had .
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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool sank about a foot in the decades after its 1920s construction. It required a mas...
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Coolidge and Mellon refused to bend—and helped secure America’s rise