Katherine Richardson is a Professor in Biological Oceanography at the University of Copenhagen and active in the development of Earth system science. She leads the Queen Margrethe and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir´s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society and is an architect of the Planetary Boundaries Framework. Richardson tells of marine biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring exposed the dangers of pesticides and sparked the modern environmental movement.

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DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947.
Scan by Flickr user Crossett Library.
Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Earth Day, Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, April 22, 1970.
New York Police Department photograph collection. NYC Municipal Archives.

Students gather for a Diag rally during Michigan’s 1970 Teach-In on the Environment. 1970-03
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor
Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Senator Angus King is an American lawyer and Independent politician best known for being the former Governor of Maine who has served in the U.S. Senate since 2013. Senator King explores the legacy of Joshua Chamberlain, the Mainer who helped the Union win the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-B8184-3287.]

Tyler Vernick, Conor Brobston, and David J. Trowbridge. “The 20th Maine Monument, Gettysburg .”

Clio: Your Guide to History. March 29, 2020. https://theclio.com/entry/10113

Chamberlain Portrait (Brady’s National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Library of Congress, 1865)

Chamberlain Portrait (Bowdoin College Library, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, 1915)

Painting of the Twentieth Maine at Gettysburg (The National Guard)

“Joshua Chamberlain statue, Brunswick, ME” by Billy Hathorn, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons. License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Tom Perez is a civil rights attorney, former Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and served as U.S. Labor Secretary under President Barack Obama. Perez tells us about the tragic 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the workplace reforms that it inspired.

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Dr. Conevery Bolton Valencius is a Professor of History at Boston College, and author of “The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes” and “The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land.” Dr. Valencius recounts the New Madrid earthquakes which reshaped the landscape, displaced Indigenous Americans, and prompted America's first disaster relief legislation.

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New Madrid Seismic Zone activity 1974-201
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Madrid_Seismic_Zone_activity_1974-2011.svg#

Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose works include the New York Times bestsellers “Cleopatra,” “The Witches: Salem, 1692,” and “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.” Schiff chronicles the life of Samuel Adams, the relentless agitator who shaped public opinion and pushed the colonies toward independence.

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United States Representative Lori Trahan of Massachusetts is the granddaughter of immigrants who became the first in her family to graduate from college before embarking on a distinguished career that culminated in her election to Congress in 2018. Representative Trahan recounts the life of An Wang, the Chinese American computer engineer who invented magnetic core memory and embraced an ethic of philanthropy.

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Jack E. Davis is a historian, author, longtime Florida resident, and Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Florida. Davis honors the Everglades, the Florida wetland known for its astounding beauty, and highlights the conservationism that ensured its protection.

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Dr. Todd Arrington is a historian, writer, and veteran. He serves as Executive Director of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation and is the former Director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. Arrington tells the story of the message Eisenhower drafted before D-Day, accepting sole blame should the invasion fail.

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Roxana Robinson is an award-winning novelist, biographer, scholar, and the great-great-great niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Robinson recounts how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” changed how millions of Americans thought about human enslavement.

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Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut, Columbia University Engineering Professor, New York Times Bestselling Author, and the first person to Tweet from space during the Hubble Space Telescope missions. Massimino explains how the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of outer space and serves as a testament to American ingenuity

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First Light
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/overview/hubbles-first-light/
Image Credit: NASA, ESA and STScI

Andromeda Galaxy
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubbles-high-definition-panoramic-view-of-the-andromeda-galaxy/
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and L.C. Johnson (U. of Washington), the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) team, and R. Gendler

Starry Spiral
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-spots-a-starry-spiral/
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker and the PHANGS-HST Team

Hubble sits at telescope
https://science.nasa.gov/people/edwin-hubble/
Image Credit: Edwin P. Hubble Papers, Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Hubble orbit
https://esahubble.org/images/s109e5875/
Image Credit: NASA/ESA

Saturn
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/saturn-6/
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC)

Pluto
https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-pluto-stsci-01evsrjcapn1afkxej1d7e1njd/
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute)

Black hole
https://esahubble.org/images/heic2410a/
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Hayes (Stockholm University), J. DePasquale (STScI)

Fireworks
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/nasa-unveils-celestial-fireworks-as-official-hubble-25th-anniversary-image/
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team

Servicing Mission
https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/carousel-sm4-1/
Image Credit: NASA

Repairing Hubble
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/repairing-hubble-with-specially-designed-tools-1997/
Image Credit: NASA and the STS-82 Crew

Astronauts John M. Grunsfeld and Richard M. Lineman EVA
https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/27923243952-f5dd4fa361-o/ 
Image Credit: NASA

STS-125 MS4 Mike Massimino Poses for a Photo during Flight Day 7
https://science.nasa.gov/image-detail/28075653522-aeb5056eb7-o/
Image Credit: NASA


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United States Representative Joe Morelle of New York serves as Vice Ranking Member on the House Appropriations Committee and is a Ranking Member of the Committee on House Administration. Representative Morelle explores the impact of the Pujo Committee’s 1910s examination of consolidation in American banking.

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Monica Land is a journalist and niece of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer. She produced the award-winning film, “Fannie Lou Hamer's America” and now manages the digital educational website, fannielouhamersamerica.com. Land remembers the inspiring life of the Mississippi voting rights activist who asked “Is this America?”

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Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky is currently serving his second term in office with a strong focus on education, disaster response, faith, and family. Governor Beshear tells the story of Man o’ War, the prolific thoroughbred race horse who helped restore Americans’ faith in the country after World War I.

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Jan John is a retired sales executive, active volunteer in local Maine politics, Social Security beneficiary, and dog lover. Jan John reveals how pioneering Labor Secretary Frances Perkins fought to create Social Security benefits during the Great Depression.

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Filmmaker Ken Burns explores the legacy of Ellis Island, the immigration entry station that processed millions of immigrants coming to America.

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Michael Green is a Professor of History in UNLV's Department of History and teaches courses on nineteenth-century America and on Nevada and Las Vegas. Green details how the Rat Pack encouraged racial integration and reflected the melting pot of American culture.

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Maine Governor Janet Mills is a former Attorney General, state legislator, and the first woman governor of Maine. Governor Mills recounts Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s stirring rejection of McCarthyism.

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Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987.

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Personal photos provided courtesy of Cleve Jones.

ACT UP 30th Anniversary Closing Rally at Union Square Park between Broadway and East 17th Street, New York City, NY on Thursday afternoon, 30 March 2017 by Elvert Barnes Protest Photography

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Dr. Jason Herbert is a historian, public scholar, and outdoorsman from Kentucky. Herbert tells us about the Acadians, French settlers expelled from British Canada, who helped to create today’s Cajun culture.

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A map of the British and French settlements in North America in 1755 by John Lodge

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/4071880581/

Pete Buttigieg is a former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a veteran, and the 19th U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg tells us about the Erie Canal, the engineering marvel that opened up the interior of the United States

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