The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt: Ep 2: Boom to Bust
America’s Great Lakes, with an abundance of coal, iron ore, and lots of water, fuelled an unparalleled industrial revolution. The
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Pacific North West
The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt: Ep 1: American Titans
America’s Great Lakes, with an abundance of coal, iron ore, and lots of water, fuelled an unparalleled industrial revolution. The
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Lewis & Clark’s Native American Trail
In 1803, two young army officers set off west at the behest of President Jefferson to explore the newly acquired territory of Louisiana & find a practical transportation link between this region & the ‘Oregon Country’ territory claimed by the US following the discovery of the mouth of the Columbia River in 1792.
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Atomic City: The Story of a Top-Secret World War II Project
During World War II, Richland in Washington State was home to the top-secret Manhattan Project that developed the B reactor–the world’s first, full-scale operating nuclear reactor.
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The Oregon Trail
For a period of twenty years from the 1840’s through to the 1860’s Some 53,000 people. made the arduous 2000- mile journey from Independence, Missouri through Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming and Idaho to the tip of Oregon.
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