History
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The Explosive Chemist Who Invented Smokeless Gunpowder
James Dewar, the creator of cordite, likely helped win World War I. But why never a Nobel?
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How Was Abortion Understood Historically?
One question for Claudia Ford, an herbalist and midwife turned environmental historian at SUNY.
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When the Surgeon Was an Uneducated Barber
A medical student confronts the history of surgery.
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Termination of Pregnancy Has Always Been Part of Women’s Health
Plants, prejudice, and history lessons for a post-Roe nation.
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The Botanist Who Defied Stalin
His dream of feeding the world died in prison. His dream of a seed bank lives on.
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A Lab of Her Own
In her bedroom during WWII, she discovered how the nervous system is wired.
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Did Cars Rescue Our Cities From Horses?
Debating a modern parable about waste and technology.
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How Tycoons Created the Dinosaur
The story of dinosaurs is also the story of capitalism.
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One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science
A new history of the race to decipher DNA reveals Shakespearean plots of scheming.
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The Disneyfication of Atomic Power
Inside America’s propaganda campaign, “Atoms for Peace,” launched in the wake of Hiroshima.
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The Disneyfication of Atomic Power
Inside America’s propaganda campaign, “Atoms for Peace,” launched in the wake of Hiroshima.
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The Botanist Who Defied Stalin
His dream of feeding the world died in prison. His dream of a seed bank lives on.
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What Did the Past Smell Like?
Get a whiff of a new sensory experience in history.
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When Science Was the Best Show in America
The first US museum was devoted to truth and reason. Then the circus came to town.
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Interrogating the Art and Science of Whaling Journals
Images are not always neutral, even within the framework of science.
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The Greatest Journey of All Time
How the first Americans made their way from Siberia to Patagonia.
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If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?
