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Inside the Met

Watch as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th birthday is upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing the art institution to close its doors for the first time in history, while facing financial losses and a battle to protect artistic treasures.

By Fred Vigeant

New evidence about the Hindenburg on NOVA

A revealing new investigation of one of history’s most iconic aviation disasters.

By Fred Vigeant

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Investigating the innovations to living longer

Discover the role vaccination plays in our growing ability to prevent the spread of illness.

By Fred Vigeant

Earth Day on WITF Radio

By Fred Vigeant

A New World on Finding Your Roots

By Fred Vigeant

Hemingway

Hemingway, a three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

By Fred Vigeant

Blinding of Isaac Woodward

Discover the 1946 incident of racial violence by police that led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman and set the stage for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision, jump-starting the civil rights movement.

By Fred Vigeant

Rival historians take aim at Pa. Senator Doug Mastriano’s research on WWI hero Sergeant Alvin York

Doubts linger more than a century later about the precise location of heroics that won American World War I Sergeant Alvin York a Medal of Honor.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press
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