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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	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

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