Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
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On progress and historical change
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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The ingenious ancient technology concealed in the shallows
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Evidence for European presence in the Americas in AD 1021
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The American Aristotle
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Searching for Mr. X - For eight years, a man without a memory lived among strangers at a hospital in Mississippi. But was recovering his identity the happy ending he was looking for?
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A decade of sore winners
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How factories were made safe
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How life improved since 1990
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What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
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Why Confederate lies live on
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The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked.
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Why Confederate lies live on
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Lincoln's great depression
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The plan to kill Osama bin Laden—from the spycraft to the assault to its bizarre political backdrop—as told by the people in the room
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The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis
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The shape of Rome
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José Epita Mbomo: The Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis
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Katrina’s hidden race war
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Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
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A sea story
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
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Why military history?
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Iron, how did they make it? Part I, Mining
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How the 1619 Project took over 2020 in the US
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We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: We have lazily repeated false narratives for too long
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The school
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The (literally) unbelievable story of the original fake news network
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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Celebrations of Progress - A look at some major celebrations of historical achievements, and thoughts about why it seems like nothing similar has happened recently
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Was the 2004 US election in Ohio unfairly tipped to Bush?
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Whispers from fallen civilisations
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Ashoka's moral empire
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The practical case on why we need the humanities
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The history of philosophy in global context: three case studies
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The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
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Eugène François Vidocq
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Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages
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The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
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"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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