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May 2019: The Greco-Turkish War	April 2019: The Amritsar Massacre	March 2019: Mendeleev's Periodic Table
February 2019: France at the Barricades, 1934	January 2019: A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly	December 2018: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
November 2018: The End of World War I?	November 2018: The 1918 Flu Pandemic	October 2018: Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast
September 2018: Genocide and Rwanda	August 2018: The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings	July 2018: 150 Years of the Fourteenth Amendment
June 2018: The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow	May 2018: Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague	April 2018: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 2018: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein	February 2018: 150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois	January 2018: The Execution of Louis XVI
December 2017: India-Pakistan Partition	November 2017: The October Revolution in Russia	October 2017: Martin Luther and the Reformation
September 2017: The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love	August 2017: Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe	July 2017: Canada 150: Coming Home
June 2017: The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War	May 2017: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion: “No Justice, No Peace”	April 2017: The Bataan Death March
March 2017: The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace	February 2017: Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia	January 2017: From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone
December 2016: Pearl Harbor	November 2016: Mariner 9: Opening The Martian Frontier	October 2016: Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution at Sixty
October 2016: The Norman Conquest of England, 1066	September 2016: Star Trek	August 2016: The Chinese Cultural Revolution at Fifty
July 2016: Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces	July 2016: The Assassination of President Garfield, 135 Years Ago	June 2016: The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
May 2016: Emperor Haile Selassie I Returns Triumphant to Ethiopia	April 2016: Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl	April 2016: Keeping Beer “Pure”: The 1516 Reinheitsgebot
April 2016: Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death	March 2016: The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949	February 2016: 400 Years Ago the Catholic Church Prohibited Copernicanism
January 2016: Crime and Punishment 150 Years Later	December 2015: The Acid Tests	December 2015: Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist
November 2015: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker	October 2015: Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old	August 2015: Hiroshima
July 2015: Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice	June 2015: Winning and Losing at Waterloo, Two Hundred Years Later	May 2015: On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
May 2015: Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	April 2015: On the Armenian Genocide	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

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