The Pirahã People
Deep in the Amazon rainforest lives a small society that has challenged some of our most basic assumptions about language, numbers, time, memory, and even how human beings organize their lives. For d...
7 Syys 15min
The Great Awakening
In the early 18th century, religion in the American colonies was often orderly, formal, and deeply tied to established churches. Then a new generation of preachers began drawing enormous crowds, del...
6 Syys 15min
Mosquitoes
Throughout human history, a tiny insect has influenced wars, shaped settlement patterns, halted major engineering projects, and caused more deaths than almost any other animal. For most of history, n...
5 Syys 16min
The 1920 Wall Street Bombing
At 12:01 PM on Thursday, September 16, 1920, a large explosion went off in the heart of America’s financial industry. 30 people were killed instantly, another eight people died later from wounds, an...
4 Syys 13min
The Divided Island of Hispaniola
In the Caribbean, two nations share a single island, yet their histories, languages, economies, and political systems developed along dramatically different paths. Their border is more than a line o...
3 Syys 15min
Watergate
On June 17, 1972, a seemingly minor burglary at a Washington, D.C. office building set off a chain of events that would shake the American political system to its core. What began with five arrests ...
2 Syys 14min
Questions and Answers: Volume 45
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