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By Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
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Origins: Current Events In Historical Perspective presents short audio discussions of the historical context of some of today's most important issues.
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The Duel Between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Who was Typhoid Mary?
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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The Battle of Bosworth Field
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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President James Garfield's Assassination
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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The Discovery of Pluto
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Ten Iconic World Series
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Gwangju Then and Now
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Project Blue Book: America's Obsession with UFOs
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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1066: The Normans Conquer England
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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War of the Pacific, 1879-1884: Chile vs. Peru and Bolivia
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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The Legacy of the Magna Carta
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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The Birth of Peronism
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Top Ten Popes Before 1500
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May 21, 2025 |
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Albert Hofmann and the Discovery of LSD
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May 02, 2025 |
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Justice for the Rwandan Genocide
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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The Great Fire of Rome
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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The Tunguska Mystery Explosion
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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10 Great World War II Films
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Haile Selassie I and an Independent Ethiopia
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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The Berlin Airlift
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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The Founding of the People's Republic of China
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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The Story of Poinsettia Day and U.S.-Mexico Relations
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Our Top Ten Historical Musicals
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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Congolese Rumba: Soundtrack to African Political Struggle
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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The Very Modern Alice in Wonderland
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Solar Eclipses in American History
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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The Battle for Manila
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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The Historical Dominance of the Electric Car
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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SpaghettiOs and the Age of Processed Foods
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Operation Barbarossa
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Mariner 9: Our 1st Steps to Mars
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The 1st Modern Olympic Games, Athens 1896
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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The Marshall Plan
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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The Ludlow Massacre: Fighting for Workers’ Rights, 1914
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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History's Top Spies
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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Making Sense of South Korean Politics
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
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May 31, 2024 |
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Idi Amin's Uganda
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May 24, 2024 |
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Gorillas in the Mist: The Life and Legacy of Dian Fossey
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May 02, 2024 |
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Operation Wetback: The Roots of Immigrant Deportations Today
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Rumble in the Jungle: The 1974 Foreman / Ali Heavyweight Title Fight
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique"
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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The First Insulin Injection for Diabetes
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Nuremberg Judgment
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Remembering Roman Emperor Augustus
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Defining Refugees
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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The Mother of Rock and Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Versailles Treaty Fight
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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The 1848 German Revolutions
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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America’s National Parks: 10 Moments of Insight
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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The Provisional Irish Republican Army
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Japan’s Meiji Restoration
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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The 19th Amendment: Women's Right to Vote
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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The Beatles, Rock, and Race in America
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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The Sterilization of Carrie Buck
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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The Boston Massacre
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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The Dawes Act
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May 26, 2023 |
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The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine
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May 05, 2023 |
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The Kent State Massacre
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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“No Victor and No Vanquished” - The Biafran War
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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The Suez Crisis (1956)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The Nature of World War II
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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West Ukraine's War Stories: A New Chapter?
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Fly Me to the Moon
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The Second Opium War
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Süleyman the Magnificent
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Bangladesh Liberation War
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Remembering Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring"
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Ukrainian Architecture at war
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Bataan Death March
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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The Fall of Tenochtitlan
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Taras Shevchenko, Poet of Ukraine
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Ukraine in War and Revolution
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Soviet Ukraine in a Nutshell
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Heroes Never Die: The Legacies of Euromaidan
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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The Origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Ukraine: The Breadbasket of Europe
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Rus Not Russia
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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The Tour de France and The Yellow Jersey
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Copernicus, Galileo, and the Catholic Church
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May 20, 2022 |
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Gavrilo Princip and the Beginning of World War I
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Bombing Hiroshima
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Mendeleev's Periodic Table
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Early American Contagions
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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The Death of Franco
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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What HIV Teaches Us: The Need for Affordable Health Care
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Srebrenica and Its Memory
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Stalingrad: The Turning Point of WWII in Europe
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Blame Game: The USSR’s Response to HIV/AIDS
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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What's "Natural" on the Galapagos Islands?
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Liberation of Paris
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The History of Vaccination: Top 10 Things to Know
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Amritsar Massacre (1919)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Black Death and Its Aftermath
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Respirator and Cloth Mask
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The 1918 Flu Pandemic
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Corona in Context: Lessons From the SARS Pandemic of 2003
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The India Pakistan Partitian
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The October Revolution in Russia
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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White Supremacist Violence
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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What happened to Louis XVI? A swift public execution
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Top 10 Best Things to Know About D-Day
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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The History of International Women's Day
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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Climate Change - Top 10 Things to Know
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Jun 21, 2016 |