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Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971	The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador	The Death of Franco
Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism	Süleyman the Magnificent	The Nineteenth Amendment
Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial	Srebrenica and its Memory	The Signing of the United Nations Charter
May 2020: Kent State after Fifty Years	April 2020: “No News Day” at the BBC	March 2020: The Boston Massacre
February 2020: The Treaty of Waitangi	January 2020: “No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War	December 2019: The Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Versailles Treaty Fight	October 2019: The Rumble in the Jungle	Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
The Liberation of Paris	Fly Me to the Moon	The Hamilton-Burr Duel
The Tour de France and the Yellow Jersey	Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution	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 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
The 1918 Flu Pandemic	October 2018: Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast	Genocide and Justice in Rwanda
August 2018: The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings	The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment	The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
May 2018: Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague	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
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	Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution	October 2016: The Norman Conquest of England, 1066
September 2016: Star Trek	"Mao's Last Revolution": China's Cultural Transformation	July 2016: Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces
The Assassination of President Garfield	The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments	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

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