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Scott Wallace - The Unconquered
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

Beyond the flurries of deadly arrows they launch against outsiders, little is known of the Amazon’s “People of the Arrow.” Wallace, a journalist on assignment for National Geographic, joined a team of explorers who set out to discover what they could of this elusive tribe—in order to keep them isolated from the modern world.

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Natalie Hopkinson - Go-Go Live
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Hopkinson’s social history of black Washington isn’t told as much as it is set to the beat of the go-go music that emerged in the city in the early 1970s. From Chuck Brown’s inspired mix of blues, church music, and Latin-inflected funk through the proliferation of clubs, bands, and recordings in the 1980s and on to go-go’s wider, suburban dissemination in the 1990s, Hopkinson, a contributing editor of TheRoot.com and former Washington Post writer and editor, tracks the urban history of race through one of its distinctive sounds.

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David Crist - The Twilight War
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Ten years in the making, this comprehensive history of U.S.-Iran relations from 1979 to the present shows that the two countries have long been in conflict and that covert operations have repeatedly verged on open warfare. Crist, a senior historian for the federal government and a Marine Reservist who saw two tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, had unique access to top officials and documents from five administrations.

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Amor Towles - Rules of Civility
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
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Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy - Rabid
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Wasik and Murphy, a journalist and a veterinarian, respectively, recount the history, science, and myths of rabies, a virus with a nearly 100% fatality rate until vaccination became available in the late 19th century. The authors explain how the disease is transmitted, how it disables the body, and how cultures worldwide have channeled fear of rabies into images of vampires, wolfmen, and zombies.

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