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September 2012 | By Path Through History

September 2012 | By Path Through History

Path Through History
September 2012 | By Path Through History

Path Through History
September 2012 | By Path Through History

The Brazilian government’s bold efforts to clean up the city’s notoriously dangerous favelas is giving hope to people who live there
January 2013 | By Joshua Hammer

Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education takes is redefining the modern classroom
December 2012 | By Tom Vanderbilt

Bryan Stevenson, the winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in social justice, has taken his fight all the way to the Supreme Court
December 2012 | By Chris Hedges

Local politics take a dramatic turn in southern California over a plan to clean up an iconic American playground
November 2012 | By Claire Martin

A relic from the Cold War, this instrument of death gets a new life … and a new look
October 15, 2012 | By Lisa Bramen

Salman Khan, a rising star in the education world, has a vision for a new kind of classroom
October 01, 2012 | By Megan Gambino

The flyweight pugilist has spent all her life waiting for the chance to compete on the Olympic stage. Now, she just needs to win
August 03, 2012 | By Jim Morrison

A piece of history on the Pacific Coast was almost lost to budget cuts, until a Russian billionaire stepped in to save the endangered state park
July 06, 2012 | By Amy Crawford

Lured by the soaring price of the precious metal, prospectors are heading for the California hills like it's 1849 all over again
July 2012 | By Abigail Tucker

As her controversial new memoir will show, the leader of the U.S. women’s soccer team has always defended her turf
July 2012 | By Nancy Hass

Two doctors in Boston may have found a way to identify which homeless people are most in need of urgent medical care
May 17, 2012 | By Abigail Tucker

The renowned author of the memoir Infidel found refuge here from persecution abroad
June 2012 | By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The cold war may be over, but sales of a new breed of bomb shelter are on the rise. Prepare to survive Armageddon in style
June 2012 | By Abigail Tucker

A new campaign has enjoyed stunning success in lowering the number of chronically homeless in the United States
June 2012 | By Abigail Tucker

A photographer's images of domestic tranquility pay tribute to U.S. service members
May 2012 | By T.A. Frail

From the Beats to CEOs, the residents of Sausalito’s houseboat community cherish their history and their neighbors
April 04, 2012 | By Jeff Greenwald

After half a century of studying jib-jabbing, linguists have just finished the nation's most ambitious dictionary of regional dialects
March 2012 | By Abigail Tucker

Spurred by rising global demand for the metal, miners are destroying invaluable rainforest in Peru's Amazon basin
February 2012 | By Donovan Webster

People in the Old Country won’t touch the stuff, but immigrants to the American Midwest have celebrated it for generations
December 08, 2011 | By Erica Janik

Klallam tribal members make plans for holy ancestral sites to resurface after the unparalleled removal of nearby dams
December 2011 | By Abigail Tucker

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