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Roots: Official Trailer
Watch the first official trailer for HISTORY's "Roots," premiering Monday, May 30. #Roots
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HISTORY® is the leading destination for award-winning original series and specials that connect viewers with history in an informative, immersive and entertaining manner across all platforms. The network's all-original programming slate, including scripted event programming, features a roster of hit series including American Pickers®, American Restoration™, Ax Men™, The Legend of Shelby the Swamp Man, Counting Cars™, Pawn Stars®, and Swamp People® as well as HISTORY®'s first scripted series Vikings, and epic miniseries and special programming such as The Bible and the Emmy® Award-winning Hatfields & McCoys, Gettysburg, Vietnam in HD, America The Story of Us® and 102 Minutes That Changed America. The HISTORY® website is the leading online resource for all things history, featuring over 20,000 videos, images, audio clips, articles and interactive features that allow visitors to dig deeper into HISTORY® series and a broad array of historical topics.
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25 Landmarks in 25 Minutes
History buff and avid jogger Patrick Kennedy takes you on a tour of 25 National Historic Landmarks you can visit in under 25 minutes.
Read the full story on BU Today: /today/2011/25-historic-landmarks-in-25-minutes/
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Restoring the USS Constitution
The USS Constitution enters dry dock for a 3-year restoration project.
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Coffee 101: The Buzz Behind the Buzz
In this video, Merry “Corky†White, a CAS anthropology professor and author of Coffee Life in Japan, traces the history of coffee in the United States, and Sir Hans Kornberg, a CAS biology professor, tackles caffeine on a molecular level! [...]Read the story at BU Today: /today/2012/coffee-101/
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Remembering the Wigwam: Braves Field and Nickerson Field
As Fenway Park celebrates its 100th birthday, BU Today recalls the nearly four decades when Boston’s other major league baseball team, the Boston Braves, played on what is today Boston University’s Nickerson Field.
Read the two-part [...]series on BU Today: /today/2012/braves-field-remembering-the-wigwam/
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Touring Cambridge, in Costume
The cofounder of Cambridge Historical Tours, Daniel Berger-Jones (CFA’05) and a team of eight guides lead costumed tours through the brick-lined streets of Harvard Square every day of the week. Boston has the Freedom Trail, Lexington and [...]Concord their battlefields. Cambridge—with one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world—has a history that’s just as rich and fascinating.
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Secrets of the Three Cranes Tavern
See inside the Boston City Archaeology lab and storage facility in this short profile on Boston City Archaeologist Joe Bagley (CAS'06). Joe shows three artifacts found at Charlestown's Three Cranes Tavern, which was open from about 1635-1775.
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Points of Departure: Preethi Chauhan and Monika Mathur
Randomly placed together as roommates freshman year, Preethi Chauhan (CAS'11) and Monika Mathur (ENG'11) became best friends by chance.
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Burning Of Smyrna 1922
The Great Fire of Smyrna was a fire that destroyed much of the port city of Smyrna (modern Ä°zmir) in September 1922.
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