In March 2016, Carmen Petaccio wrote about the changes in recent history to comic-book heroes, and how they correlate with times of despair in America.
In February 1937, Henry C. Wolfe wrote about Adolf Hitler's aggressive expansion and how it would affect the nations of Eastern Europe.
The year you were born, Dr. X wrote about his experiences as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp.
In September 2014, Noah Gordon wrote about school integration, past and present, in the United States.
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Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
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In January 2013, Esther Zuckerman wrote about Turner's decision to relinquish her U.S. citizenship.
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With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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