The first episode of You Must Remember This tells the story of actress Kim Novak — a top box office draw of the late 1950s and the iconic star of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — and her painful struggles to assert herself from […]
Today on the show, we’re taking you behind the scenes. We’ll tell you how Throughline was born, some of what goes into making our episodes, and a little bit about how we make our special sauce — the Throughline rizz,
Illustration of Socrates, in a basket, based on Aristophanes’s The Clouds. Was Socrates a real person? is one of the most googled questions about perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Socrates’s existence as a historical figure is, however, universally
When the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Co. launched the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, fanfare for the new express mail service made newspaper headlines from New York to San Francisco. The cheers came loudest from California
Naga tribesmen, circa 1905. The agreement reached in 1975 became a flashpoint for division and militarization within the Naga National Movement. Key leaders rejected the Accord outright, arguing that accepting the Indian Constitution and laying down arms amounted to surrendering
Baseball holds its records sacred. Most home runs, strikeouts, career wins. But what about the longest game ever? That honor goes to a 1981 AAA game, when the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings slugged it out from dusk
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Executive director James Grossman and director of teaching & learning Brendan Gillis have a busy schedule at the 2024 National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference in Boston. On Thursday, November 21, Grossman will deliver a lunchtime keynote about
For anyone who teaches at a business school, the blog post was bad news. For Juliana Schroeder, it was catastrophic. She saw the allegations when they first went up, on a Saturday in early summer 2023. Schroeder teaches management and
A little more than a week before the Presidential election, Donald Trump hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden that some speculated would be the death knell of his campaign. Eleven days after his victory, he returned to the Garden
The word “Seminole” is derived from the Muscogean word simanó-li, or “runaway,” reflecting a common heritage, as Upper Creeks from Alabama, Lower Creeks from Georgia, other affiliated tribes and escaped African slaves all sought sanctuary in Spanish Florida. There they mixed
