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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

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

protests by the Yellow Vest movement

France at the Barricades, 1934

man with a gun in a holster

Top Ten Origins: Gun Regulation

A card celebrating March 8 as International Women’s Day.

International Women's Day

Russian chemist and educator Dmitrii Mendeleev

Mendeleev's Periodic Table

Indian bicycle troops are pictured at the Somme in 1916

The Amritsar Massacre

portion of a movie poster for the movie Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke

At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots

Pullman Strike illustration

Top Ten Origins: American Workers and Strikes

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