WORLD WAR I
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2020: The Latest Turbulent Tipping Point in American History?
Is America headed toward another turbulent, history-changing summer?.
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'Flashback' Lecture Notes: Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em
Podcast host and OZY history buff Sean Braswell takes us back to a time when cigarettes seemed like a good idea.
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What History's Urban Vegetable Gardens Teach Us About Survival
Turning to gardening in a crisis didn’t start with COVID-19.
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How a 105-Year-Old Ukrainian Called Life's Bluff
Artem Maximovich Chibalo had a plan: After fighting in three Russian Revolutions and two World Wars he’d die drinking vodka under a tree.
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The Carlos Watson Show
The Carlos Watson Show brings bold, impactful conversations with culture-defining celebrities, intellectual pioneers and changemakers, spotlighting the voices you need to hear to make sense of this important time in American history.
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The First Pilates Studio Was an Internment Camp
Trapped on an island, Joseph Pilates put his time to good use.
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When America Forgot All About Its Black WWI Soldiers
Nearly 400,000 proud African Americans served a country in World War I that was incapable of honoring their service.
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Cousins Reunited: How America's Century-Old Occupation of Germany Still Reverberates
A tattered photo, an illustrated book, a DNA search — how distant cousins an ocean apart finally found each other.
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Meet the Couple Who Built a German Castle in Namibia
This sandstone schloss is a testament to the love of an adventurous German officer and his wealthy American bride.
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This Intrepid British Adventurer Talked Her Way Into Forbidden Lands
A linguist with wanderlust, Freya Stark used audacity and charm to fill in blank spaces on the complex map of the Middle East.
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The Bittersweet End of Two American Communists in Russia
Lovers, reporters and American Communists Louise Bryant and Jack Reed had a remarkable adventure before tragedy struck in Russia.
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The Weekender
OZY Tribe members near and far provide delicious recommendations for your valuable weekend time.
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How Mexico Could Have Changed the Outcome of World War I
With German submarines attacking civilian shipping, the US was bound to get drawn into World War I, but a wacky German telegram just may have sped things up.
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The American Reporter Who Rode With Pancho Villa
Despite the proliferation of “immersive journalism,” they just don’t make reporters like Jack Reed anymore.