Meet the Unacknowledged Hero Who Discovered That Handwashing Saves Lives

Meet the Unacknowledged Hero Who Discovered That Handwashing Saves Lives

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The Woman Who Fought for Sing Sing's Early Female Prisoners

The Woman Who Fought for Sing Sing's Early Female Prisoners

Rebecca Salomé Foster Helped Those Who "Mattered Not"

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The Moment the Myth of Alien Abduction Was Born

The Moment the Myth of Alien Abduction Was Born

Betty and Barney Hill Took an Interesting Trip to the Doctor's Office

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Help out the NYPL and pass the time with this New York City oral history project.

Help out the NYPL and pass the time with this New York City oral history project.

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How to Spend 42 Days Stuck<br> in Your Room

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Will Schwalbe on Xavier de Maistre's 1790 Study of Isolation

By Will Schwalbe | March 25, 2020

One Utah County's Decades-Long Struggle for the Native American Vote

One Utah County's Decades-Long Struggle for the Native American Vote

David Daley on Voter Suppression in Big Sky Country

By David Daley | March 25, 2020

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