EVERY THURSDAY American History

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THURSDAY ON STORY

January 8, 2026

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Story Feature

America's Feud: Hatfields & McCoys

The story of the famous American feud as told by historians, scholars, and descendants.

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History's Mysteries

Family Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys

Out of the Appalachian hills arose America's most famous family feud, which purportedly began in 1878 with the theft of a hog. We sort fact from fiction about this feud that landed in the U.S. Supreme Court, and finally ended in a legal hanging after an 1889 trial. Historians and descendants from both families, now friendly, weigh in.

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Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest

Rogers' Rangers

Meet Major Robert Rogers, an unorthodox leader who helped create the concept of commando-style fighting and wrote down military rules still used today.

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Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest

Pontiac's Rebellion

Looks at the conflicts and personalities that fueled the Native American resistance of 1763 when Ottawa war chief Pontiac and a consortium of Woodland tribes nearly wrested ten Great Lakes forts from British hands.

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Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest

Long Knives

Story of George Rogers Clark, Revolutionary War general and brother of William Clark of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

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Frontier: Legends of the Old Northwest

Tecumseh: The Dream of Confederacy

Trace the rise of the Shawnee warrior Tecumseh and his half-blind brother known as The Prophet. From 1806 to 1808, they summoned a contingent of tribes to a last stand against the white man.

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The Real West

The Northern Frontier: Canadian West

Story of the pioneers who tamed one of the continent's most forbidding territories. Chronicles the exploits of James Douglas, who brought law and order to the mining boomtowns of British Columbia.

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