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… Photograph of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003. Mars, the red planet so … in the distant past, but the liquid disappeared eons ago when the atmosphere thinned. When we think about Martian … if the spacecraft had been yet another flyby. But Mariner 9 was an orbital mission. NASA scientists waited a few months …

… The story of Israel's foundation has often been told from the perspective of Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel. In this presentation, Ori Yehudai turns … things up for discussion. Many of you submitted questions when you registered. However, if you're interested in asking …

… Fifty years ago this September the first episode of Star Trek hit the American airwaves. … own historical significance would have been worth noting. When Star Trek first appeared in 1966, the media landscape was quite different than it is today. While there were a …

… In voting on President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court this week, senators should consider her … an empathetic justice. Republicans mocked President Obama when he suggested that empathy was an important ingredient in a justice. In fact, the …

… The ZUNR fought a Polish invasion in the west until it was defeated in June 1919.  In the UNR, the Ukrainian Party … the provinces claimed by the UNR as an independent state.  When Germany collapsed in November 1918 , the Bolsheviks … Putin invaded Ukraine again in 2014 as had Vladimir Lenin in 1917. Today, however, Ukraine has an independent …

… analyzing women's voting and activism, we finally turn to the final frontier: Public Office. From School Boards to the Presidential ticket, join us as we trace the bumpy road of women running for elected office.  … loss Mrs. Salter was sure to face would humiliate the WCTU. When Mrs. Salter learned from early morning voters that her …

… Wisconsin doesn't often provide political leadership at the national level, but when it does, it's like that old nursery rhyme about the … few upon the rights of the many."   Robert La Follette Jr. was elected as his father's successor in the Senate and …

… literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes! Can't even go for a damn jog man! … James in his Cleveland Cavaliers uniform, 2008. James was reacting to a forty-second video released of three white … teams, in Sol White's Official Baseball Guide (1907). When the National Football League was formed in 1920 it …

… The family of Martin Luther King, Jr., much maligned of late … complicated with such stale, predictable theories that it was secretly orchestrated by the government? One reason may … Hoover’s hatred for King bordered on the pathological, and when the civil rights leader received the Nobel Peace Prize …

… One of the growing challenges facing our digitally-driven world is … in the British empire.  McKenzie first visualized the story when suffering a "bad case of footnote paranoia" (291). … Australia as a "place for social reinvention"—was far more interesting than she had initially realized.  …

… 18, 2011, some 500 U.S. soldiers at Camp Adder in southern Iraq boarded 110 military vehicles and drove off … without incident, it left behind a legacy of a war that was controversial in origin, costly to Iraqi civilians and … national borders, and built it into a pro-Western monarchy. When a threat developed that Nazi Germany might gain …

… June 2015, I stood in a long queue that wrapped around Athens’s busy Stadiou Street hoping to withdraw some euros … After what felt like an eternity under the blazing sun, I was just two people away from the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in …

… They just don't make 'em like they used to. How often have you muttered this phrase when thinking of something and wished that things could just … past because it makes us think that everything "then" was a lot nicer, a lot simpler, and maybe just plain better …

… How we understand policing in the United States depends not only on what issues we focus … , hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy sit down with the historians Marcus Nevius , Lilia Fernández , and Clay Howard to take a longer and broader view of the matter. They discuss how modern policing problems are …

… Hunger is on the rise in America. The Conference of Mayors recently … serving what came to be known as the “penny lunch.”   This was one of the first attempts to provide school feeding for children. When the school superintendent stopped by to see Walsh’s … Today’s School Feeding Programs Grew Out of the “Penny Lunch” Tradition of a Century Ago …

… The Birth of Soviet Ukraine. When the Russian Empire … ways. Progressive Ukrainians wanted an independent Ukraine, socialists desired a future that was connected with the Russian Bolsheviks, but factions …

… The years 1940–1949 were ones of continuous horror for the Greek people. When the Second World War (WWII) ended in 1945 and the rest of Europe was beginning to rebuild itself, Greece entered into a … The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949 …

… As of 2020, the CDC estimates that just over one in ten Americans has … complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the body fails to produce insulin (Type I diabetes) or … milestone occurred when a new treatment—insulin injection—was first successfully used on January 23, 1922. The efforts …

… and several phases of history. San Juan Teotihuacán, on the outskirts of Mexico City, thrived as a city nearly two … is the smallest out of the two pyramids. Originally red, it was dedicated to the goddess of water and fertility. The … a new one. They would know the location of their new lands when they saw an eagle eating a snake on top of a nopal …