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| Title | Date published | ||
| Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages | 2021-08-19 | ||
| India's secret freedom radio | 2021-08-18 | ||
| US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon | 2021-08-17 | ||
| The man who coined the term genocide | 2021-08-16 | ||
| Inside an East German jail | 2021-08-13 | ||
| East Germany's nudists | 2021-08-12 | ||
| Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann | 2021-08-11 | ||
| Escaping from East Berlin | 2021-08-10 | ||
| The building of the Berlin Wall | 2021-08-09 | ||
| Gay activism in 1990s India | 2021-08-06 | ||
| Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves | 2021-08-05 | ||
| Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War | 2021-08-04 | ||
| Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women | 2021-08-03 | ||
| Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer | 2021-08-02 | ||
| The Tsunami and Fukushima | 2021-07-30 | ||
| Fighting for the pill in Japan | 2021-07-29 | ||
| The soldier who never surrendered | 2021-07-28 | ||
| The birth of Karaoke | 2021-07-27 | ||
| Japan's Bullet Train | 2021-07-26 | ||
| When war came to Darfur | 2021-07-22 |