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Melvyn Bragg

Best in History Online: BBC's In Our Time

A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb

Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape

Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean

What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?

The youngest, westernmost islands are still volcanically active and are thought to be no more than 700,000 thousand years old.
Woodcut print depicting the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618

Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague

An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event

The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow

The colorful buildings of Tirana, viewed from the steps of the National Museum.

A Postcard from Tirana: Overcoming the Past

book cover of Empire of Cotton - A Global History

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads

An artistic rendering of the observable universe by Pablo Carlos Budassi. It depicts the Solar System at the center, surrounded by other celestial bodies and galaxies, and cosmic microwave radiation and plasma left over from the Big Bang at the outer edge.

Top Ten Origins: The Universe’s Greatest Hits

The words "Equal Justice Under Law" which are inscribed on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

The Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

Zombie scene from the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead.

Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle

A U.S. FBI agent sorts through rubble. (Photo by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)

The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings

The logo for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Genocide and Justice in Rwanda

The Temple of Kukulkan at Chichén Itzá.

A Postcard From Chichén Itzá

Clarence Thomas

Top Ten Origins: Controversial SCOTUS Nominees

H.G. Wells’s novel, War of the Worlds, described hissing, tentacled, tripodal invaders from Mars.

Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast

An influenza hospital at Camp Funston

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

On August 8, 1918, 17,000 German soldiers surrendered to the Allies.

November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?

Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943

The Nature of World War II

 Monte Albán

A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico

 Monte Albán

Una Postal de Oaxaca, México

Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.

A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly

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