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Voices In Time

2020 | Baltimore

Sonia Shah Asks Why People Move

“Migration requires capital.”More

Voices In Time

1778 | Kauai

A Most Extensive Nation

James Cook marvels at the spread of language.More

Voices In Time

1625 | Paris

Free Passage

Hugo Grotius opens up the public domain.More

Voices In Time

c. 1890 | Missouri

Night Shift

Jack Black catches the midnight train.More

Voices In Time

1874 | England

Fly Away Home

Alfred Newton and Alfred Russel Wallace debate the homing instinct.More

Voices In Time

1895 | Michigan

Keep in Touch

Simon Pokagon admires the wild pigeon.More

Voices In Time

1890 | New York City

An American Tale

Jacob Riis maps out the people of a city.More

Voices In Time

c. 1685 | Newington Green

Coming Attraction

Charles Morton wonders where birds come from.More

Voices In Time

1919 | New York City

Manifest Destiny

Marcus Garvey starts a cruise line.More

Voices In Time

1572 | Peru

One World to Another

José de Acosta crosses the ocean.More

Voices In Time

2020 | Panama

Nadja Drost Crosses the Darién Gap

Making a dangerous journey to the United States.More

Voices In Time

1836 | Washington, DC

Against Our Will

John Ross fights for his sacred inheritance.More

Voices In Time

376 | Thrace

Barbarians Inside the Gate

Ammianus Marcellinus meets the Huns.More

Voices In Time

1886 | London

Sea Change

Joseph Conrad at the start of a brilliant career.More

Voices In Time

1764 | Ferney

Nothing as It Now Is

Voltaire on volcanic disruption.More

Voices In Time

1916 | Constantinople

The Deported

Ambassador Henry Morgenthau protests the expulsion of Armenians.More

Voices In Time

c. 1300 BC | Egypt

Parting Words

Moses takes his people with him.More

Voices In Time

1805 | Fort Mandan

Composing a Fleet

Meriwether Lewis prepares for takeoff.More

Voices In Time

1923 | Washington, DC

Judgment Day

The U.S. Supreme Court reinforces the racial order.More

Voices In Time

1856 | St. Catharines

Getting Clear

Escaping slavery in the South.More

Voices In Time

1943 | Cambridge, MA

Seeds of Expansion

Bernard De Voto visits the edge of an empire.More

Voices In Time

1891 | Boston

Circulation System

Solomon Schindler considers the laws of motion.More

Voices In Time

1754 | Bridgetown

Middle Passage

Olaudah Equiano endures new refinements in cruelty.More

Voices In Time

1029 | Ghazna

Galaxy Brain

Al-Biruni unwraps the universe.More

Voices In Time

c. 1770 | Orange County, NY

Country for Old Men

Crèvecoeur says, “There is room for everybody in America.”More

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