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The Dover Sun House

In 1948, the Nemethy family moved into a curious new solar powered house in Dover, Massachusetts. The Dover Sun House, as it came to be known, was designed by physicist Mária Telkes, and it was the first modern house to be heated by nothing but the sun. This short video details the Nemethy experience of living there while also explaining the thermal heating system used to heat the home.
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Revisit the 1970s Love Canal disaster and how the battle for justice, led mostly by women, created the basis for the federal Superfund program.

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President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the 11-member Kerner Commission to investigate the riots that engulfed urban communities across the country in 1967.

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