With the death of Nelson Mandela in December 2013, attention turned once again to the conditions that brought him international acclaim as the first black …
Episode 34: The Social Legacy of Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson's presidency marked the introduction of a real maverick to the White House: a frontiersman from Tennessee, not part of the Washington elite, who …
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Episode 31: Who are the Turks?
Over the past two thousands years, the Turkic peoples have migrated and expanded from a small group of pastoral nomads in what is now western China to form …