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April 2015: The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War	March 2015: The Mother of Rock and Roll	February 2015: The Battle for Manila
January 2015: The Magna Carta and Its Legacy	December 2014: What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan	December 2014: The War We Refuse to Remember
November 2014: “Remember, Remember the 9th of November” The Fall of the Berlin Wall 25 Years On	October 2014: Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later	September 2014: The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II
August 2014: Celebrating Roman Emperor Augustus	July 2014: Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)	June 2014: The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip
June 2014: Remembering Tiananmen: The View from Hong Kong	May 2014: Immigrant Deportations Today and the Continuing Legacy of "Operation Wetback"	April 2014: Which Side Are You On?: The Ludlow Massacre and Class Struggle in 1914
March 2014: Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine	February 2014: 50 Years Ago: the Beatles, Rock, and Race in America	January 2014: Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb
December 2013: Celebrating Repeal with a Drink, Not a Joint	November 2013: Watching JFK Live and Die 50 Years Later	October 2013: Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks on Peacekeepers in Lebanon
September 2013: Reflecting on Justice 200 Years after the Creek Civil War	August 2013: The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington	July 2013: "Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport 150 Years Ago
June 2013: The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare Lost & Found	June 2013: Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord	May 2013: The Romanov Tercentenary: Commemoration, History, and Power
April 2013: Albert Hofmann Discovers LSD	March 2013: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later	February 2013: Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor
January 2013: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago	December 2012: A “God Particle” for Isaac Newton’s Birthday	November 2012: Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962
October 2012: Soviets Launch Sputnik, 1957	September 2012: A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

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