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All That Is Still Uncovered: The Final Episode

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The Three Tramps: Loose Ends of the Warren Commission

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Babbar Khalsa in Vancouver: The Bombing of Air India 182

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Ruth Mary Reynolds: La Princesa From South Dakota

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Kazuo Sakamaki: The First POW

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Mani v. Niger: The Line Between Slavery and Marriage

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Oliver Sipple: The Tragedy of Heroism

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István Friedrich: The Right-Winger Who Played Right-Winger

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Dictator of Fortune: The Story of Bob Denard

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The Altalena Affair: Revisionist Revolution in Israel

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New Jersey v. New York: The Disputed Colossus

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Our Own Holocaust: The Paraguayan War

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Schrödinger's Vigilante: The Story of Bernhard Goetz

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O'Duffy and the Greenshirts: Nazi Collaborationism in Ireland

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Engblom v. Carey: The Forefront of Third Amendment Case Law

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Hide and Seek: The Story of David Kato

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He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for DC: The Story of Marion Barry

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The Orange Revolution: Yushchenko's Rise and Fall in Ukraine

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No Flag or Ideology: Greco-Turkish Earthquake Diplomacy

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The Bougainville Conflict: A War Over the World's Next Country

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The Border War: Pancho Villa's War on the US

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Fetterman, Frost, Santos, and Vance: New Faces in the 118th Congress

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The Afrikaner Bantustan: Crisis in Bophuthatswana

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Andrés Escobar: The Deadliest Own Goal

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Nuclear Sexpionage: The Story of Mordechai Vanunu

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Forty-Two Years of Solitude: The Story of the Lykov Family

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Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Chinese-American Athletic Bond

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Wallis, Duchess of Windsor: The Royal from Appalachia

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Justice at Arusha: The Rwandan Genocide - Part 3

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Unsung Heroes and a Debatable Savior: The Rwandan Genocide - Part 2

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Half a Million Machetes: The Rwandan Genocide - Part 1

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Frankenstein's Performance-Enhancing Monster: The Introduction of Methandienone

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Bleeding Kansas: The Civil War's Proxy War

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Ryo Kurusu: The American Rikugun-Shosa

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Stenberg v. Carhart: Clarence Thomas's Prophetic Dissent

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The Wilmington Insurrection: An American Coup d'État

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Holocaust in the British Isles: The Occupation of the Channel Islands

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Janet Jagan: The American President of Guyana

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The Franco-Mexican War: Europe's Final Occupation of the Americas

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Sixty-Eight Years Behind Bars: The Story of Paul Geidel

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Démocratie et Tyrannie: The Five Republics of France

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Yang Kyoungjong: The Korean at Utah Beach

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Attorney General v. X: The First Step Towards Legal Abortion in Ireland

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Cotton, Colonization, and Confederados: The Story of Americana

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Willie Francis: The Boy Who Was Executed Twice

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Seretse Khama: The Clay that Bound Botswana

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Brother Daniel: The Jewish Friar Who Wasn't (or Was?)

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The Opium Wars: China's Failed War on Drugs

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The First Barbary War: America's Earliest Foreign Intervention

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Bhagat Singh Thind: The Man Who Wanted to Be American

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Lady Death: The Story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko

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Dewey Defeats Truman: The Greatest Political Upset in American History

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The Lod Airport Massacre: An International Debacle

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The Taiping Rebellion: The Deadliest War You've Never Heard Of

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Chinochet: The Story of Alberto Fujimori

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Timbuctoo: New Jersey's Underground Railroad Terminus

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Nix v. Hedden: The Catalyst of the Tomato Controversy

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The Soviet-Afghan War: Setting the Stage for the Taliban

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The Lebanese Civil War: A Sectarian War on Four Fronts

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The Hillsborough Disaster: A Perfect Storm of Fatal Mistakes

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Ralph Lazo: Interned by Choice

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West Florida: The Short-Lived Rebel Republic

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Hispaniola's History: The Dominican Republic and Haiti

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USS Pueblo: North Korea's Pride and Joy

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William Walker: The Gringo Dictator

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Witold Pilecki: The Auschwitz Volunteer

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Faith, Persecution, and Conflict: The Utah War

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Strom Thurmond: The Perpetual Dixiecrat Senator

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Dick Bong: The Ace of Aces

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The Wall Street Bombing: Galleani's Attack on American Capitalism

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MS St. Louis: The Voyage of the Damned

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Huey Long: The Most Benevolent Demagogue

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Judah Benjamin: The Chosen Confederate

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Cawthorn, Luján, Torres, and Tuberville: New Faces in the 117th Congress

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The Christmas Truce: One of the Greatest Surprises of a Surprising War

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Paweł Strzelecki: The Hero of the Great Famine

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Turkmenistan: The Most Absurd Autocracy

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Teepee to Capitol: The Story of Charles Curtis

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Compromise of 1877: The Second Corrupt Bargain

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Saint Patrick's Battalion: The Martyrs of Churubusco

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United States v. Virginia: RBG’s Biggest Decision

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Just Cause: America's Invasion of Panama

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Lauri Torni: The Finnish, German, and American Soldier

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Yossele Schumacher: The Lost Boy of Israel

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George Wallace: The Most Influential Loser

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Blood in the Water: Hungary and the USSR's Olympic Skirmish

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The Years of Lead: Italy's Battle Between Christianity, Communism, and Fascism

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The Pig War: North America's Strangest War

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Trouble at the Embassy: Gaddafi's Attack on London

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Blackout: The Catalyst of Rap Music

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The Great Smog: London's Grey Killer

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La Violencia: Colombia's Civil War

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Why I Hate My Uncle: The Story of William Hitler

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The Doolittle Raid: America's First Step Against Infamy

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Liberia: America's Long-Lost Child

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Five Republics: South Korea's Reign of Terror

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Aleutian Theatre: The Forgotten Battles of World War II

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Congressman Lyon: On the Way to Philadelphia

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Ajax: The Coup That Made Iran What it is Today

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Bomber's Row: The Unlikeliest of Friendships