The Civil War Isn't Over: David Blight and Tony Horwitz
I used to think that the Civil War ended at Appomattox. But the next 150 years of conflict –...
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The Civil War Isn't Over: David Blight and Tony Horwitz
I used to think that the Civil War ended at Appomattox. But the next 150 years of conflict –...
01:06:51
Racial Passing in the USA: Historian Allyson Hobbs
The recent case of Rachel Dolezal – the “black” activist outed as white – may have seemed novel,...
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Sara Solovitch: A History and Memoir of Stage Fright
Sara Solovitch grew up playing classical piano, a dedicated student and aspiring performer. But...
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Astronomer Robert Kirshner: Supernovas, Dark Energy and The Fate of the Universe
Astronomer Robert Kirshner is an expert in supernovae – those spectacular exploding stars that...
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Writer-Illustrator Sydney Padua: Babbage, Lovelace and the First Computer
A century before the first electronic computers, there was the Analytical Engine, a giant,...
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Biophysicist Jeremy England: A New Theory of Evolution
We know life is made of molecules, but how did those molecules come together in the first place?...
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