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Harry Houdini's Impulse to Escape
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Harry Houdini's impulse to escape dangerous situations attracted thousands of spectators.
Genetic Screening: Controlling Heredity
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The ability to prevent suffering through genetic screenings sparks difficult questions.
Letter from a father
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Letter from a father
Free Love & Free Stuff
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1967, young people flooded into San Francisco to find what one described as “wonderland.”
The Contract from Tesla
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Tesla's original contract with George Westinghouse. Premieres 10/18 on PBS.
Tesla The Evolution of Invention
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The Evolution of Invention
Mind-Altering Drugs
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Visions of a utopian society took shape in the Haight-Ashbury district in the mid 1960s.
Summer of Love: Chapter 1
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Watch the opening scene of Summer of Love.
Signal school
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MBTA’s Signal Shop, where workers maintain the equipment that keeps the trains on track.
The Hippie Tour
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1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S.
The Great War: Transformed
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How WW1 to “make the world safe for democracy”—altered America’s place in the world.
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