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Social Studies

A brief history of divorce

750,486 Views

Social Studies

The rise of the Ottoman Empire

1,476,172 Views

Social Studies

Letter from Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King, Jr.

718,005 Views

Social Studies

A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul

1,175,825 Views

Literature & Language

The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe

2,911,006 Views

Business & Economics

The dark history of bananas

2,990,059 Views

Social Studies

The hidden treasures of Timbuktu

905,239 Views

History

The rise and fall of history’s first empire

1,388,884 Views

Civics

Who owns the "wilderness"?

348,003 Views

Civics

The problem with the U.S. bail system

425,054 Views

Social Studies

Why we must confront hard historical truths - Hasan Kwame Jeffries

66,417 Views

Social Studies

"Other": A brief history of American xenophobia

64,044 Views

Design, Engineering & Technology

A day in the life of an ancient Greek architect

564,519 Views

Social Studies

The Japanese folktale of the selfish scholar

2,416,263 Views

Environmental Science

A brief history of plastic

1,256,351 Views

Social Studies

The rise of modern populism

637,244 Views

Thinking & Learning

Can you outsmart the fallacy that fooled a generation of doctors?

1,769,153 Views

Anthropology

The myth of Ireland's two greatest warriors

1,320,386 Views

Science & Technology

No one can figure out how eels have sex

2,592,090 Views

Social Studies

The myth of Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece

1,363,965 Views

Social Studies

The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors

1,247,259 Views

Social Studies

The Egyptian myth of the death of Osiris

3,929,910 Views

Linguistics

The race to decode a mysterious language

826,086 Views

Social Studies

Prohibition: Banning alcohol was a bad idea...

719,218 Views