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  • Hilary Brown poster image canonical_images/feature/Taken_Hostage_Hilary_Brown_canonical.jpg XXX Digital Short
    Taken Hostage | Digital Short

    Hilary Brown

    Hilary Brown was the first female foreign correspondent at ABC News. Her coverage included first-hand reports on the fall of Saigon, the Rwandan genocide, and the Iranian Revolution.

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    Taken Hostage | Digital Short

    The Shah

    Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran consolidated power after a CIA-backed coup in 1953 overthrew Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. 

     

  • Snapshot: America in the 1970s poster image canonical_images/feature/Taken_Hostage_Snapshot_canonical.jpg XXX Digital Short
    Taken Hostage | Digital Short

    Snapshot: America in the 1970s

    From Jimmy Carter's "Crisis of Confidence" speech to the Hostage Crisis, here's a look at each year from 1970 to 1979.

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    Taken Hostage | Digital Short

    Operation Ajax

    The secret plan by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) to overthrow Iran's democratically elected government and its Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

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    Fatal Flood: Chapter 1

    Watch a preview of Fatal Flood.

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    Fatal Flood | Trailer

    Fatal Flood: Teaser

    In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded from New Orleans to Illinois, leaving a million people homeless.

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    Pandemics & Pop Culture

    Epidemiologist Ian Lipkin speaks with reporter and author Marilyn Chase about what pandemic books, movies and TV shows get right, and wrong, about real pandemics.

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    Command & Control: The Uterus

    Professor of Law Renée Landers and Professor of Law and Theology Cathleen Kaveny speak with Historian Adriane Lentz-Smith about the history of reproductive rights and future of bodily autonomy in a post Roe v. Wade America.

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    Flood in the Desert | Clip

    Water Wars

    Environmental scientist Peter Gleick and CEO of the U.S. Water Alliance Mami Hara speak with historian Jessica Marie Johnson about access, availability and conflicts around clean water in the United States.

  • San Francisco’s Bubonic Plague Cover-up poster image canonical_images/feature/Plague_bubonic-rumor-canonical.jpg XXX Digital Short
    Plague at the Golden Gate | Digital Short

    San Francisco’s Bubonic Plague Cover-up

    As rumor spread of bubonic plague in San Francisco, newspapers couldn't agree if it was a nationwide threat or a plot to destroy the economy. Sound familiar?

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    Plague at the Golden Gate: Chapter 1

    Watch a preview of Plague at the Golden Gate.

  • Ng Poon Chew poster image canonical_images/feature/Plague_Chew_canonical.jpg XXX Digital Short
    Plague at the Golden Gate | Digital Short

    Ng Poon Chew

    Ng Poon Chew was a writer, a publisher and an advocate for Chinese American civil rights.