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How DNA Solves Crimes

For most of human history, identifying the person responsible for a crime depended on witnesses, confessions, fingerprints, and sometimes little more than suspicion. The

The Never-Ending Voyager Missions (Encore)

In 1977, NASA took advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime alignment of the planets to send two probes to the outermost reaches of the solar system.  They sent back the best i

The Rise and Fall of Vaudeville

Before radio, television, and the internet, Americans packed theaters to see comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, magicians, animal acts, and just about anything else t

The History of Whaling (Encore)

Whaling is something that humans have engaged in for thousands of years. For most of that time, indigenous groups conducted it on a small scale for subsistence purposes.

A Brief History of Algeria

For thousands of years, one country has stood at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, Africa, and the Sahara.  It has been ruled by Numidian kings, Romans, Arabs, Ottoma

Fluorine: The Most Reactive Element

There is an element so reactive that it was one of the last to be isolated, and chemists were injured or even killed trying to obtain it.  Yet once tamed, it became esse

The Avignon Papacy

For centuries, the pope was one of Europe's most powerful figures, ruling the Church from Rome and challenging kings and emperors alike.  Then, in the early 14th century

Cod: The Fish That Shaped History

For centuries, one seemingly ordinary fish helped feed armies, sustain empires, launch fishing fleets across the Atlantic, and shape the economies of entire nations.  It

The Cheyenne Mountain Complex

Buried deep beneath thousands of feet of granite in Colorado is one of the most famous military installations ever built.  Designed during the Cold War to remain operati

Ivan the Terrible

In the 16th century, one ruler transformed a growing principality into a powerful empire, crowned himself with a new title, conquered vast territories, and reshaped the p

The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem

For centuries, one of the holiest places in Christianity has been governed by an extraordinarily delicate balance of tradition, property rights, religious rivalry, and in

The Srivijaya Empire

For centuries, one of Asia's most powerful empires controlled the vital sea lanes connecting China, India, and the Middle East.  It grew fabulously wealthy from trade, b

A History of Looney Tunes

For decades, audiences around the world have watched a collection of characters survive explosions, outwit hunters, fall from cliffs, and repeatedly bend the laws of phys

Organ Transplants

For most of human history, when a vital part of the body failed, there was little doctors could do.  Then a series of advances in surgery, immunology, and pharmaceutical

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 being

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 bega

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 a

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 peo

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.  Thei

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.