Raj Patel on how one plant breeder’s breakthrough became a tool of American foreign policy.
Danielle Nierenberg discusses how the renowned agronomist's revolution wasn’t so green after all.
Norman Borlaug was dubbed the “Father of the Green Revolution”.
Story of the man who would lead a “Green Revolution” of worldwide agriculture programs.
Watch a preview of The Polio Crusade.
When the first human egg was fertilized in a lab in 1944, the news spread like wildfire.
The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote.
The worst epidemic in American history, killing over 600,000.
Barack Obama was the first African-American to serve as President of the United States.
Elected after the closing of the American frontier to the west, McKinley found new ways to expand in the Pacific and Caribbean following the Spanish American War.
Millard Fillmore proposed paying Texas to abandon claims on New Mexico, and supported the admission of California into the Union.
After barely surviving his impeachment trial, Andrew Johnson served out the rest of the term without thought of reelection.
