Chapter 1: "My First Adventure" (Egypt, May 1908 / "Tangiers, July 1909)
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"Archaeology - Unearthing Our Past" |
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"Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun" |
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"Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia" |
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"From Slavery to Freedom" |
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Chapter 2: "Passion for Life" (British East Africa, September 1909 / Paris, September 1908)
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"Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century" |
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"Ecology - Pulse of the Planet" |
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"American Dreams - Norman Rockwell and the Saturday Evening Post" |
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"Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern" |
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"Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel" |
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"Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed" |
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Chapter 3: "The Perils of Cupid" (Vienna, November 1908 / Florence, May 1908)
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"Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart" |
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"It's Opera!" |
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"The Archduke's Last Journey - End of an Era" |
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"Powder Keg - Europe 1900 to 1914" |
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"Sigmund Freud - Exploring the Unconscious" |
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"Carl Jung and the Journey to Self Discovery" |
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"Psychology - Charting the Human Mind" |
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Chapter 4: "Travels with Father" (Russia, March 1909 / Athens, July 1910)
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"Seeking Truth - The Life of Leo Tolstoy" |
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"Unquiet Voices - Russian Writers and the State" |
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"Aristotle - Creating Foundations" |
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"Ancient Questions - Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning" |
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Chapter 5: "Journey of Radiance" (Benares, January 1910 / Peking, March 1910)
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"Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Reluctant Messiah" |
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"Annie Besant - An Unlikely Rebel" |
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"Medicine in the Middle Kingdom" |
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"Eastern Spirituality - The Road to Enlightenment" |
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Chapter 6: "Spring Break Adventure" (Princeton, February 1916 / Mexico, March 1916)
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"Thomas Edison - Lighting Up the World" |
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"Invention and Innovation - What's Behind a Good Idea?" |
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"The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer" |
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"Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico" |
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"General John J. Pershing and His American Army" |
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"George S. Patton - American Achilles" |
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Chapter 7: "Love's Sweet Song" (Ireland, April 1916 / London, May 1916)
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"Easter Rising - The Poets' Rebellion" |
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"The Passions of William Butler Yeats" |
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"Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland" |
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"Ireland - The Power of the Poets" |
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"Winston Churchill - The Lion's Roar" |
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"Demanding the Vote - The Pankhursts and British Suffrage" |
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"Fighting for the Vote - Women's Suffrage in America" |
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Chapter 8: "Trenches of Hell" (Somme, Early August 1916 / Germany, Mid-August 1916)
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"Siegfried Sassoon - A War Poet's Journey" |
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"Robert Graves and the White Goddess" |
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"I Am France - The Myth of Charles de Gaulle" |
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"The Somme - A Storm of Steel" |
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Chapter 9: "Demons of Deception" (Verdun, September 1916 / Paris, October 1916)
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"Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace" |
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"Flirting with Danger - The Fantasy of Mata Hari" |
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"Into the Furnace - The Battle of Verdun" |
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"Reading the Enemy's Mind - Espionage in World War I" |
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Chapter 10: "Phantom Train of Doom" (German East Africa, November 1916)
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"Chasing the Phantom - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck" |
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"Dreaming of Africa - The Life of Frederick Selous" |
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"At Home and Abroad - The Two Faces of Jan Smuts" |
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Chapter 11: "Oganga, The Giver and Taker of Life" (German East Africa, December 1916 / Congo, January 1917)
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"Albert Schweitzer - Reverence for Life" |
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"Waging Peace - The Rise of Pacifism" |
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"Congo - A Curse of Riches" |
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Chapter 12: "Attack of the Hawkmen" (Ravenelle, Early February 1917 / Ahlhorn, Late February 1917)
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"War in the Third Dimension - Aerial Warfare in World War I" |
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"Blood Red - The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen" |
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"Flying High for France - The Lafayette Escadrille" |
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"Anthony Fokker - The Flying Dutchman" |
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Chapter 13: "Adventures in the Secret Service" (Austria, March 1917 / Petrograd, July 1917)
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"Karl - The Last Habsburg Emperor" |
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"The Russian Revolution - All Power to the Soviets!" |
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"V.I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us" |
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Chapter 14: "Espionage Escapades" (Barcelona, May 1917 / Prague, August 1917)
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"Impresario - Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes" |
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"Ballet - The Art of Dance" |
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"Franz Kafka's Dark Truth" |
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Chapter 15: "Daredevils of the Desert" (Palestine, October 1917)
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"Lines in the Sand - The Middle East and the Great War" |
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"Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia" |
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Chapter 16: "Tales of Innocence" (Northern Italy, June 1918 / Morocco, November 1917)
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"Unhealed Wounds - The Life of Ernest Hemingway" |
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"The Secret Life of Edith Wharton" |
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"Lowell Thomas - American Storyteller" |
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"The French Foreign Legion - The World's Most Legendary Fighting Force" |
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Chapter 17: "Masks of Evil" (Istanbul, September 1918 / Transylvania, January 1918)
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"For the People, Despite the People - The Ataturk Revolution" |
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"The Greedy Heart of Halide Edib" |
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"Dracula - Fact and Fiction" |
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"The Ottoman Empire - A World of Difference" |
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Chapter 18: "Treasure of the Peacock's Eye" (New Guinea, March 1919)
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"Bronisław Malinowski - God Professor" |
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"Anthropology - Looking at the Human Condition" |
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"New Guinea - Paradise in Peril" |
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Chapter 19: "Winds of Change" (Paris, May 1919 / Princeton, May 1919)
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"Woodrow Wilson - American Idealist" |
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"Gertrude Bell - Iraq's Uncrowned Queen" |
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"Ho Chi Minh - The Price of Freedom" |
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"Paul Robeson - Scandalize My Name" |
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"Robert Goddard - Mr. Rocket Science" |
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"The Best Intentions - The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles" |
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Chapter 20: "Mystery of the Blues" (Chicago, April 1920 / Chicago, May 1920)
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"Al "Scarface" Capone - The Original Gangster" |
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"Ben Hecht - Shakespeare of Hollywood" |
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"On the Trail of Eliot Ness" |
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"Louis Armstrong - Ambassador of Jazz" |
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"Jazz - Rhythms of Freedom" |
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"Prohibition - America on the Rocks" |
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"Hellfighters - Harlem's Heroes of World War I" |
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Chapter 21: "The Scandal of 1920" (New York, June 1920 / New York, July 1920)
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"Tin Pan Alley - Soundtrack of America" |
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"Broadway - America Center Stage" |
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"Wonderful Nonsense - The Algonquin Round Table" |
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Chapter 22: "Hollywood Follies" (Hollywood, Early August 1920 / Newhall, Late August 1920)
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"Erich von Stroheim - The Profligate Genius" |
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"The World of John Ford" |
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"Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder" |
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"The Rise of the Moguls - The Men Who Built Hollywood" |
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Historical Lectures {{C|with historian H.W. Brands)
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"The Promise of Progress" |
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"War and Revolution" |
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"New Gods for Old" |
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