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The Night Michael Jackson's Thriller Changed Everything (And We Didn't Even Know It Yet)
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The Epidemic Nobody Wanted to Name: How AIDS Devastated a Generation and Forced America to Finally Look
We Built the Internet in Somebody's Basement: The Personal Computing Revolution That Nobody Saw Coming, Including Us
We Watched a President Fall: How Watergate Taught Our Generation That No One Is Above the Law
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When the Ringing Won't Stop: What I Learned About Tinnitus (And the Natural Formula That Gave Me Hope)
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The Night Michael Jackson's Thriller Changed Everything (And We Didn't Even Know It Yet)
Faith & Community
73 Seconds: Where We Were When the Challenger Fell, and What It Did to the Generation Watching
Hobbies & Crafts
The Night MTV Turned On: How Three Letters and a Rocket Launch Changed Music, Youth Culture, and Everything Else
Health & Wellness
The Epidemic Nobody Wanted to Name: How AIDS Devastated a Generation and Forced America to Finally Look
Hobbies & Crafts
We Built the Internet in Somebody's Basement: The Personal Computing Revolution That Nobody Saw Coming, Including Us
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We Watched a President Fall: How Watergate Taught Our Generation That No One Is Above the Law
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When the Ringing Won't Stop: What I Learned About Tinnitus (And the Natural Formula That Gave Me Hope)
For years I thought the ringing in my ears was just something I had to live with. Then I started understanding what was actually happening inside my inner ear — and everything changed.
The Common Thread Editorial Team·7 min
The Night Michael Jackson's Thriller Changed Everything (And We Didn't Even Know It Yet)
It was 1983, you were glued to a TV screen, and something shifted in the world that night. Looking back now, it's almost impossible to explain to anyone who wasn't there just how much a 14-minute music video rewired an entire generation.
Dana Kowalski·7 min
73 Seconds: Where We Were When the Challenger Fell, and What It Did to the Generation Watching
On January 28, 1986, seventy-three seconds after liftoff, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic. For a generation raised on the space program as a symbol of American possibility, nothing was ever quite the same.
Dana Kowalski·9 min
The Night MTV Turned On: How Three Letters and a Rocket Launch Changed Music, Youth Culture, and Everything Else
On August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m., a generation stopped listening to music and started watching it. Nothing about us was ever the same.
Dana Kowalski·8 min
The Epidemic Nobody Wanted to Name: How AIDS Devastated a Generation and Forced America to Finally Look
We lost people before the country decided they were worth saving. This is the story of what happened, what it cost, and why we can never afford to forget it.
Troy Hendricks·10 min
We Built the Internet in Somebody's Basement: The Personal Computing Revolution That Nobody Saw Coming, Including Us
We were the first generation to grow up with a computer in the house. We had absolutely no idea what that meant. It turned out to mean everything.
Marcus Webb·9 min
We Watched a President Fall: How Watergate Taught Our Generation That No One Is Above the Law
Richard Holbrook·8 min
From Elvis to Woodstock: How Our Generation Invented the Soundtrack of the Modern World
Sandra Kowalczyk·8 min
The War That Came Into Our Living Rooms: How Vietnam Divided a Generation and Changed America Forever
Richard Holbrook·8 min
The Summer of Love and the Generation That Dared to Ask: What If?
James Okafor·8 min
We Watched the Moon Landing Live — And Nothing Was Ever the Same Again
Dorothy Simmons·8 min
The Dog We Didn't Ask For: How a Backyard Mutt Taught Our Whole Family What Loyalty Actually Means
Jenny Lewis·8 min
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Carol Whitfield·7 min
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