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Back to SearchDid the Greeks Inherit Egyptian Religion
Episode 5390
The ancient Greeks built one of the most influential civilizations in human history, but the question of where their ideas actually came from has spa…
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How the Taliban outlasted America
Episode 5408
The war in Afghanistan was the longest and most expensive conflict in American history, spanning two full decades, four presidential administrations,…
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Why Your Brain Craves the Unknown
Episode 5438
The human brain has a complicated and powerful relationship with uncertainty. Rather than simply avoiding the unknown, our minds are actually drawn t…
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North Dakota's Radical Agrarian Socialist Revolt
Episode 5411
In the early twentieth century, North Dakota became the unlikely epicenter of one of the most radical political experiments in American history. The …
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The Defiant Outsiders of Cornwall
Episode 5422
Cornwall, the rugged peninsula at the southwestern tip of England, has spent most of its history defining itself against the country that claims to g…
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How television synchronized the American mind
Episode 5401
In the middle decades of the twentieth century, something unprecedented happened to the American mind. For the first time in human history, an entire…
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The Dawes Act and the Fractionation Nightmare
Episode 5421
The Dawes Act of 1887 was presented as a gift of civilization to Native Americans, promising to transform communally held tribal lands into individua…
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The Stolen Land Beneath Oklahoma Statehood
Episode 5431
The iconic image of the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run, with settlers racing across the plains to stake their claims, is one of the most celebrated scenes in…
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The messy reality of the United States Declaration of Independence
Episode 5434
The United States Declaration of Independence is treated as sacred text, a pristine expression of universal ideals penned by Thomas Jefferson in a bu…
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Amiable Strangers Inside Apollo 11
Episode 5388
When Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins climbed into their Apollo 11 spacecraft in July 1969, they were about to accomplish one of huma…
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