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A Pure Invention: Japan, Impressionism, and the West, 1853-1906
The Black Death, an Unforeseen Exchange: Europe’s Encounter with Pandemic Sparked an Age of Exploration
An Alien Race That Should Be Segregated Socially: Mendez v. Westminister
The French Exploration and Occupation of Syria: Encounters and Exchanges that Left a Lasting Legacy
Agnes Nixon:Social Discourse in Daytime Drama
Effects of Race on Encounters and Exchanges Between AIDS Activists in the 1990s
Shanghai: The Last Jewish Refuge
Bent’s Fort: An Outpost for Cultural Exchange and Exploration of the West
“I shall not keep in my bedroom several weeks bodies taken from graves…”: Anatomical Exploration, Andreas Vesalius, and the Impact of De Humani Corporis Fabrica on the Trajectory of Medicine
Lincoln’s “Lost” Legacy: Encountering Human Suffering, Exploring Innovative Solutions, and Exchanging Historical Treasures at the NMHM
Duel and Duality: New Journalism, New York
Ada Lovelace,* The Enchantress of Computing: Exploring the Beginnings of the Information Evolution
Can You Tell Me How We Got To Sesame Street? Exploring a New Realm of Education
NAFTA: Three Nations’ Exploration of Economic Exchange and the Triumphs and Trials Encountered
Bypass Odorizer: Stinky Sulfur Smell Saves Lives
Cracking the Code: Enigma Code in World War II and its Impact On Today’s Technology
Encounters that Cured the World: Exploring Methods to Create the Polio Vaccine
Helen Priestman Bright Clark: A Quaker Woman’s Fight for Women’s Suffrage in Great Britain
Charles Darwin: A Life of Exploration,Encounter and Exchange
Mike Gorman: Exploration and Exchange in the People’s Fight for the Mentally Ill
Exploring and Exchanging Rhythms: Master Juba and the Early History of Tap Dance
On Track to Citizenship: The Exploration, Encounter and Symbolic Exchange of the Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the North American Indian
Levittown: Fair Housing For All
A ‘Home Away From Home’ : Exploring Soldier Morale and Exchanges of Patriotism Through the USO
Is This America? Fannie Lou Hamer’s Encounter with Injustice
Grace Hopper Dared to Explore Computer Coding, Encounter the Glass Ceiling, and Exchange Intellectual Concepts
Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia: Exchanging Vows, Encountering Racism, Exploring the 14th Amendment
Contrarii Moribus: The Roman Invasion of Britain
A Writer, Industrialist, Inventor & Charity Worker: Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, AKA Nellie Bly
Parallel Lives: Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller Encounter Hardships, Explore Solutions, and Exchange Knowledge
The Transcontinental Railroad: Exploring the West, Encountering Pitfalls, and Exchanging Culture
A City Under Siege: Delivering Hope One Flight at a Time on the Airbridge to Berlin
Breaking Biological Boundaries: Rosalind Franklin and the Experimental Foundation of the Double Helix Theory
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: Pioneering Cooperation in Space.
Rolling Stone Magazine: Exploring the Boundaries of Music Journalism
Dickey Chapelle
The World is All Before Me: Lord Byron’s Mediterranean Exploration
George Catlin’s Native American Encounters: A Gift of Artistic Preservation
The Novelty of Nonsense: The Whimsical Exploration that Revolutionized Children’s Literature
Hoosier and the Phillippines
The Journey of Sugar: Neither Short nor Sweet
Silence Kills: Temoignage and the Dilemma of Humanitarian Aid
Marshall Islands: A Culture Damaged through Scientific Exploration and Encounters with Western Civilization
DeWitty: An Audacious Pursuit of the American Dream
Instant Cure: The Encounter that Changed Psychology
Exploring Plants and Society: The Life-Altering Encounters of Dr. Percy L. Julian
Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed: Exploring Auto Safety
The Day of Two Noons: Railroad Encounters with Time
Pytheas of Massalia
Directing a War: Hollywood’s Encounter with World War II
The Visionary Exploration of Jacques Cousteau: Changing Perceptions of the Ocean through Undersea Encounters
China’s Surge into Silk: The Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange of the Silk Road
The Erie Canal: An Innovation in American Economics and Culture
Borders of the Land: The Dividing Interactions Within Mandatory Palestine
The Trinity Test: Blowing Up History
Reinventing Our Understanding of Humanity: Jane Goodall’s Exploration of Chimpanzees and Encounters With the Scientific World
Rachel Carson and Her Fight for Environmental Change
Louis Pasteur: The Exploration of Rabies
The Freedmen’s Bureau: “Standing on the River of Jordan”, Exchanging Chains for Freedom’s Opportunity
The Mogao Grottoes: A Thousand Years of Buddhism
Mary Musgrove: Exploration, Encounter and Exchange in the life of an Indian Princess
American Exodus: The Okies’ Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange in the San Joaquin Valley
We Were There Too: The Exchanging Roles of Women in WWII
Nixon’s 1972 Visit to China: Exploring Cold War Compromise, Encountering Normalized Relations, and Creating a Lasting Legacy of Economic and Political Exchange
The Freedom Rides: Exploring the Road to Equality, Encountering Hate, Exchanging Jim Crow for Freedom
Women Airforce Service Pilots and the Flight for Equality
Bold, Brash and Political: Artists Explored the Use of Celebrity to Encounter Art in a Bold New Way and it’s Impact on Consumerism
The Imaginary Line: The Grimke Sisters in the Public Sphere
Chasing Che
Extinction by Assimilation: Encountering the Native Industrial Schools
Fifteen Cents to See the Infants on Display
WWII Women Airforce Service Pilots: Exchanging Traditional Roles, Exploring Military Aviation and Encountering Discrimination
Perry Expedition: Exchange through Encounter of Japan
AIDS: Encountering the Unknown
The Atoms for Peace Program: An Exploration in Peaceful Proliferation
Howard Carter and King Tut: A Royal Encounter
Livestock Identification: Branding Throughout History
The Jordan House: A Safe Haven Along the Underground Railroad
The Chaos of Music after World War I
Introducing Americans to America
Reconstructing Korea’s Crippled Economy: Korean Miners and Nurses in Germany
Exposing the Big Picture: Lewis Hine’s Exploration of the Social Documentary Genre as a Tool to Eliminate Child Labor
Rachel Carson: Exploring Pesticides and Encountering the Chemical Industries Through the Exchange of Her Controversial Ideas
A Pathway to the Unexplored: The National Geographic Society
The Historic Columbia River Highway: An Engineering Marvel Opens Exploration Through the Columbia River Gorge
1966 Court Encounters: Texas Western Explores Integration in Exchange for Excellence
Exchanges on the Stage: The Ballet Battle for Cultural Supremacy
Buying In: The Music of Vince Guaraldi
Under the Big Top: The Evolution of the Circus in America
American Colonial Committees of Correspondence: Encountering Oppression, Exploring Unity, and Exchanging Visions of the Future
The European Organization for Nuclear Research: Exploration, Encounter and Exchange Through Nuclear Physics
From Hopeless to Heroic: The Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Revolutionary Rum
Wernher von Braun: From Hitler To Huntsville
Cleveland’s Hough Riots: The Violent Encounter that Ushered in New Hope for African-American Leadership and Municipal Reform
Native People in a Pacific World: The Native Alaskan Encounter and Exchange with Native People of the Pacific Coast
Co Chi Thi Nen: Vietnamese Immigrants Explore a New Home in Minnesota After the Fall of Saigon
When Portugal Ruled the Seas: How Exploration Led to Encounters and Exchanges with Brazil
Nellie Bly: Exploration and Encounter in the Field of Investigative Journalism
An Unrepentant Risk Taker: Paul Durand-Ruel Encountering Parisian Culture
Alfred Russel Wallace: Eight Extraordinary Years In The Malay Archipelago
Petticoat Pilgrims: World War II Brides Explore Culture and Exchange Hope
Nikola Tesla: The Shocking Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange of the Electrical Wizard
Encountering the Truth: State of Minnesota v. Phillip Morris Inc.
Exploring New Horizons: WASPs Take Flight
History Captured in Images: The Encounter Between Vietnam War Photographs and America
Battler of the Sexes: Billie Jean King and the Fight for Equal Rights in Sports
Neurobiologist Rita Montalcini : Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in the Life of a Nobel Laureate
Sandra Day O’Connor: A Voice for Women’s Rights
Dare to Explore: How the Founding of the National Geographic Society Changed the Scientific Community Forever
Black, White and Blue: Vivien Thomas and the Cure for Blue Baby Syndrome
Strength in Numbers: Exploring the Role of Industrial Unions Through the 1894 Encounter Between the American Railway Union and the Great Northern Railway
The Lumiere Brothers: Illuminating Motion Pictures
Lies, Spies, and Sneaky Guys: Traitor or Trader…You Decide
Women’s Suffrage Movement: Carrie Chapman Catt Explores Women’s Rights
Milton Hershey’s Sweet Discovery
Theodore Roosevelt
The Fall of Saigon: Beauty for Ashes
Genocide Denied; The Violent Encounter of 1915
Florence Wald: Exploring Medical Boundaries, Exchanging Hospitals for Hospice
How the US Dollar Rebuilt the World
Brainstorm! William James – Pioneer of the Mental Frontier
Sir Edmund Hillary, Extraordinary Explorer
The (Camera) Shot Heard Round the World: Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange
The Columbian Exchange: The Beginning or The End?
The Silk Road: Exploration and Exchange between East and West
The Black Plague: The Monumental Exchange of Disease in Europe
The Journey of Tomatoes
Michelangelo And The Painting of The Sistine Chapel
The Awakening of the Sleeping Giant: How Sino-American Rapprochement Triggered China’s Meteoric Rise and What It Means Today
Nikola Tesla : Exploring an Electrical Era
Boundless Possibilities: America’s Journey to the Moon
Sir Francis Drake: Opening New Routes of Exploration and Exchange
Exchanging Baseball Diamonds For Sandlots: How Baseball “Saved” Many Japanese Americans In The Internment Camps
The Shock of the Century: How the Sputnik Won the First Space Race, Rising from the Ashes of Peenemunde, on the Wings of Soviet Propoganda
Evolution : The Key to Unlocking The Origin of Species
Battlefield Afghanistan: Exploring the Conflict of the Soviet-Afghan War
1918 Chicago Influenza Epidemic: A Revolution for the Advancement of Public Health
Apollo 11: One Giant Leap For Peace
Feminists in Flight: Exploring Gender Equality at 32,000 Feet
The March on Polio
Unit 731: Perpetrators of the Asian Holocaust
Penicillin: The Unsung Hero of World War II
Helen Foster Snow: American Journalist in the Chinese Revolution
The Iron Curtain: Exchange and Encounter Between East and West Berlin
It’s Going Critical: How Chicago Scientists Influenced the Government on Atomic Energy
Gunpowder: The Immortal Soldier
Exploring the Secret City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The Dawn of a New Era: Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle
Route 66: The Road of Possibilities
No More Hiroshima: An International Exchange for Peace
Radio Caroline and the “Pirate” Deejays: Offshore Broadcasting to Explore Government Dominance Over British Radio
War of Currents
The exploration,encounters and exchange of women’s military aviation in WWII; the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots
For the Love of Adventure
Alexander Hamilton Explores a Financial System for the New Nation of America
Marconi: Changing the World Through the Exploration of the First Wireless
Exploring the Role of First Ladies Through United States History
Ibn Batutta: lessons learned from a great medieval traveler
The Apollo-Soyuz Mission: Launching a Unified Exchange
An Old Enemy Becomes New – World War I’s Deadliest Killer
“…I will kill it”: Jackson Encounters the Second Bank of the United States “The Bank War”
Oil and the Osage
Marie Curie: Exploring Radiation, Encountering Challenges, Exchanging Ideas, Saving Lives
Moral Choices 1975: Vietnam Refugees Encountering Callousness or Compassion; Exchanging Cultures
Exploration of Dog Training Sets Up “Seeing Eye” Exchange
The Little Rock Nine: The Integration of Education
Father of the Blues: Muddy Waters
Branch Rickey: Branching Off to New Ideas
When Ballet Came to America
The Munich Agreement: Exploring Peace, Encountering False Promises, and Exchanging Czechoslovakia for “Peace for our Time”
“The Americans Are Very Strong”
Peace Through Corn: Encounters Between Roswell Garst and Nikita Khrushchev
Preserving History through Exploration: Justice Douglas’ Encounter with the Washington Post
Jacques Cousteau: Surfacing the Secrets of the Ocean
Nixon & China
A North Atlantic Star: The Exploration and Analysis of NATO
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Jonas Salk’s Pioneering Exploration Into Poliomyelitis
Michael Rockefeller’s Quest for Primitive Art