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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
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	Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
October 2015: Everyone’s Inner Child Turns 150 Years Old	Bombing Hiroshima	July 2015: Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice
Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo	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	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	“Remember, Remember the 9th of November”: The Fall of the Berlin Wall	October 2014: Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later
The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II	Celebrating Roman Emperor Augustus	Storming the Bastille (July 14, 1789)
The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip	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	Watching JFK Live and Die 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	The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington
"Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport	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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