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1924 U.S. Presidential Election
4 November 1924, somewhere in the United States
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 1924. The Republican ticket of incumbent President Calvin Coolidge and former Director of the Bureau of the Budget Charles G. Dawes defeated the Democratic ticket of former ambassador John W. Davis and Nebraska Governor Charles W. Bryan and the Progre
Modern world
1952 U.S. Presidential Election
4 November 1952, somewhere in the United States
A presidential election was held in the United States on November 4, 1952. The Republican ticket of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Richard Nixon defeated the Democratic ticket of Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II and Senator John Sparkman in a landslide victory, becoming the first Republican president in 2
Modern world
1980 U.S. Presidential Election
4 November 1980, somewhere in the United States
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 1980. The Republican ticket of former California governor Ronald Reagan and former director of central intelligence George H. W. Bush defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent president Jimmy Carter and vice president Walter Mondale, and the Indepen
Modern world
Election of Barack Obama
4 November 2008, somewhere in the United States
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Illinois junior senator Barack Obama and Delaware senior senator Joe Biden, defeated the Republican ticket of Arizona senior senator John McCain and Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Obama became the first African American to
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The Cold War
Four decades of nuclear bluff, proxy wars, and divided cities. From the rubble of 1945 to the lowered red flag over the Kremlin - how the post-war world organised itself around two ideologies and one mushroom cloud.
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The Space Race
From a single beeping aluminium sphere to telescopes that read the first light of the universe. The journey from Sputnik to the James Webb - a contest of nations that became a project of humankind.
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The Digital Revolution
Computing leaves the laboratory and rewires daily life. The home computer, the personal computer, the public web, video on demand, and the smartphone - five turns of the wheel that redefined how a species communicates.
8 stories
Pandemics
When the world catches its breath - and then loses it. A chain of moments where infectious disease redrew politics, borders, and the social contract.
4 stories
The Road to the Second World War
How a punitive peace, a fragile republic, and a series of unanswered provocations collapsed into the deadliest conflict in human history. From Versailles to the surrender on the deck of the Missouri.
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The Revolutions
When the contract between people and power broke and was rewritten in the street. The arc from grievance to constitution.
69 stories
Wars That Reshaped the World
The conflicts whose maps, treaties, and silences still order the present. From declarations to surrenders, walked in chronology.
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Disasters That Tested Us
Natural and industrial breakages - the days a single hour rewrote what was possible. How responses, regulations, and memory followed.
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