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The Persian Gulf
Episode 2081
For thousands of years, a narrow body of water between Arabia and Persia has shaped the fate of empires, economies, and the modern world.
The Persia…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Vincent Van Gogh
Episode 2080
Few artists are as instantly recognizable as Vincent van Gogh.
In just a single decade of work, he created some of the most famous paintings in hist…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Globalization of Baseball
Episode 2079
Today, baseball is played at the highest levels on nearly every continent. Stars come from the United States, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Venezuel…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Greatest Oscar Snubs
Episode 2078
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts the biggest celebration of movies and moviemaking: The Oscars.
Thousands of members…
5 months ago
The North American Bison
Episode 2077
For thousands of years, one animal shaped the ecology, culture, and history of an entire continent.
In vast herds that once numbered in the tens of …
5 months ago
North Sentinel Island
Episode 2076
In the Indian Ocean lies an island notorious for its extreme isolation from the outside world: North Sentinel Island.
The Sentinelese, who call Nort…
5 months ago
The Purple Heart
Episode 2075
Among all the decorations awarded by the United States military, one stands apart.
It is not given for bravery, leadership, or extraordinary achieve…
5 months ago
The Harlem Renaissance
Episode 2074
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a neighborhood in New York City became the center of an extraordinary cultural explosion.
Writers, mu…
5 months ago
Skylab
Episode 2073
In the early 1970s, after the triumph of landing on the Moon, NASA faced a question: what comes next?
The answer was Skylab, America’s first space s…
5 months ago
Ivan Pavlov and His Dogs
Episode 2072
At the turn of the 20th century, a Russian physiologist made a discovery that would fundamentally change how we understand learning and behavior.
Wh…
5 months ago