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Unit 1
- Oldest Tools Ever Found
- Mummified Dogs
- First Migrants to America
- Natural GMOs?
- Why are Eastern Cultures More Cooperative?
- Enheduanna: Mesopotamian Poet Princess
- The Real Hunger Games: Modern Hunter/Gatherers
- What did Neanderthals Eat?
- The Story of Passover and Modern Refugees
- A 9000 Year-old Forensic Mystery
- Radar Scans of King Tut's Tomb
Unit 2
- Philosophers in Public Life
- ISIS Targets Ancient Treasures
- Palmyra's Ancient Arch Destroyed
- Syrian Troops Recapture Palmyra
- China's New Silk Road
- Ancient Tomb Destroyed for a Picnic Table
- Fasting to Death?
- Affirmative Action Based on the Caste System
- What's Better for Afghanistan: Buddha or Copper?
- Tracking the Illegal Ivory Trade
- Who Qualifies as Jewish?
- A Buddhist Child God
- A Rare Roman Coin
- A Buddhist Monk is Mummified and Covered in Gold
- Who is the Real St. Patrick and What Did He Eat?
Unit 3
- Kenya's Main Exports
- India's Ban on Beef Leads to Murder
- Is Art Irrelevant?
- Islamic Art at the Met
- Muhammad Era Koran in... England?
- Ramadan Breakfast of Champions
- A Rosier Side of Africa on Twitter
- Small Spanish Town with an Odd Name
- Art Forgeries
- Religious Relics: The Holy Lance
- The Magna Carta turns 800
- Rohingya Migrants in SE Asia
- Human Sacrifice and Social Hierarchy
- Medieval Universities
Unit 4
- Christianity in Japan
- Why the World Might be Running out of Cocoa Farmers
- Wreck of a Slave Ship off South African Coast
- Coffee and Consequences
- Native American Slavery
- Is Vanilla Bland?
- What did Shakespeare Eat?
- Hunger and Famine in Shakespeare's England
Unit 5
- Letting Women Take Tea Brakes?
- Block the Vote: Voting Rights
- Slave Stories from Monticello
- A Thorn for Russia in Ukraine
- What Napoleon and His Men Ate
- Slavery, Famine, and Pie in the Civil War
- Green food on St. Patrick's Day?
Unit 6
- Traveling in China
- Why Did the U.S. Choose Hiroshima?
- Chinese Navy off the Coast of Alaska
- 11 Billion People by 2100
- Which Country Drinks the Most Soda?
- American Embassy in Cuba
- Bomb in the Basement: The London Blitz
- China's Currency and You
- Catholic Bishops and Polio Vaccines
- The Horrors of Nagasaki
- Crisis in Darfur
- Moscow's Soviet Era Subway
- Forgiveness from Holocaust Survivors
- 6 Assassination Attempts Against Hitler
- Looted Nazi Art
- Mustard Gas Tests on Americans
- Spanish Civil War Starts World War II
- Teaching the Holocaust to Kindergarteners
- Borders and Violence in Africa
- Refugees and Global Migration
- Jewish Refugees from the Holocaust
- Diabetes and World Health
- U.S. Care Packages to Europe after World War II
Thematic/Miscellaneous
- Esperanto, the Universal Language
- Women's Equality... Are we there?
- Selecting Boys Over Girls
- Surviving Animist Religions (Polytheism)
- How Textbooks Can Teach Different Versions of History
Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
- Syrians and Afghans to Greek Island
- Migrants in France
- The Perils of Being a Refugee
- Why Are Migrants Surging into Europe Now?