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Ida B. Wells
1930 - Chicago
In a quiet house in Chicago, a journalist who documented lynching sets down the evidence that America tried to silence.
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1930s
1930s opens onto 6 lives, 5 place stories, and 1 named historical windows.
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Thomas Edison
1931 - West Orange, New Jersey
In West Orange, with the weight of laboratories behind him, the man who invented the modern age confronts what invention actually costs.
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Jane Addams
1934 - Chicago
In Chicago, the founder of Hull House reflects on what reform cost her and what the Depression is doing to everything she built.
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Marie Curie
1934 - Passy, France
In Passy, while her blood fails her, the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences reflects on what discovery actually costs.
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Amelia Earhart
1937 - Lae, New Guinea
In the heavy heat of Lae, with the hardest leg of the flight ahead, a pilot who redefined what women could do writes what the headlines never captured.
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Joseph Stalin
1937 - Moscow (the Kremlin office, in the night)
A ruler works through nightly lists of names marked for arrest, the camps, or execution, signing regional quotas as if approving production targets and reading confessions extracted under torture as administrative confirmations rather than as the manufactured fictions and the murders they are.
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Chicago, Illinois
Alive in this timeline around 1930 to 1934 / story span 1930-1934
Connected to 2 lives including Ida B. Wells, Jane Addams.
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West Orange, New Jersey
Alive in this timeline around 1931 / story span 1880s-1931
Connected to 1 life including Thomas Edison.
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Auvers-sur-Oise · 1930 CE to 1939 CE
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Russia and Eurasia
The Great Terror in Stalin's Kremlin
1936-1938 · Kremlin office, Moscow
The Kremlin office turns terror into paperwork, signatures, and night-bound decisions that travel far beyond the room.
Stalin's 1937 life keeps the event anchored in the specific cognition and procedure of rule rather than abstract terror.
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Amelia Earhart disappears from Lae
1937 · Lae, New Guinea
Lae turns daring modern mobility into disappearance, uncertainty, and the limits of control over distance.
Earhart keeps the event vivid because heroic scale is reduced to one aircraft, one departure, and a silence no one can fully close.
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Ida B. Wells
1930 - Chicago
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In a quiet house in Chicago, a journalist who documented lynching sets down the evidence that America tried to silence.
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