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Audre Lorde called herself a “black feminist lesbian mother poet warrior,” but for a lot of...
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Pharaoh Djoser and Egypt’s First Pyramid
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Carousels are part of childhood, but they were originally billed as an entertainment for adults...
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Immigration History: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Part 2
The second half of our interview with Dr. Annie Polland from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum...
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S.A. Andrée and the 1897 North Pole Balloon Mission
Andrée hoped to succeed in reaching the North Pole where others had failed by doing it by air....
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Once you examine Louisa May Alcott's life story, the inspirations for her writing become clear....
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The St. Kitts Slave Revolt of 1834
Until the 1830s, the dominant industry on St. Kitts was sugar, and the majority of the people...
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The Wright Brothers: An Interview With David McCullough
David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, talks about his research and discoveries...
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The Vanishing of the U.S.S. Cyclops
In 1918, a U.S. Navy collier vanished without a trace after leaving Barbados. The ultimate fate...
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The Billion Dollar Spy with Author David E. Hoffman
During the Cold War, the CIA and KGB were in a constant game of cat and mouse to steal each...
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There was a time when Popsicle and Good Humor couldn’t stop suing one another about frozen treats...
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In 1756, after a skirmish between the British East India Company and the nawab of Bengal, dozens...
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The Oregon Trail: An Interview With Rinker Buck
Author Rinker Buck's new book details the trip he and his brother Nick made along the Oregon...
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Macario Garcia was a Mexican-born soldier who served in the U.S. military in WWII, earning a...
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Gilles Garnier, the Werewolf of Dole
Sixteenth-century France had a serious case of werewolf panic. Did Garnier really transform into...
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The Life and Times of Sir Isaac Newton
You may know the apple/gravity story, but Isaac Newton's life was so much more than that. Not...
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A Brief History of Diving Technology
Humans have always longed to explore underwater, but the need to breathe air has been an...
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Resistance to excise taxes levied against U.S. whiskey distilleries in the 1790s led to violence...
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