In the 1860s and 1870s, white settlers from the areas around Indian Territory — like Kansas and Texas — started to realize that there was vast piece of land in the middle of ...
A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, ...
Ponte City has towered over Johannesburg for decades, but over time it has gone from a symbol of white opulence to something far more complicated. It's multifaceted -- a ...
Computer algorithms shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. And their creators often like to talk about how objective they are, claiming algorithms remove ...
The building had been abandoned and was now owned by the city, but it remained empty and unmaintained. It was full of rubble. Some of the walls were rotten and falling down. ...
In response to a mass migration across the U.S. border in the 1980s, a network of churches declared themselves “sanctuaries,” offering shelter to Central Americans who were ...
In the 1980s, a small church in Arizona helped spark a new and controversial social movement based on an ancient religious concept. In this two-part series producer Delaney ...
Attendees at the 1939 NYC World's Fair were stunned to hear the first synthesized voice. Its inventor would go on to develop the Vocoder, which, in turn, would help win a war ...