Hunting for the Lizard People: On the dangerous conspiracy theories that led to the Nashville bombing
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How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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The Marian reforms weren't a thing
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The status quo coalition
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The misunderstood Roman empress who willed her way to the top
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering.
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The spy whose tapes rocked Spanish society
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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Birth of a nation
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On progress and historical change
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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The blast furnace - 800 years of technology improvement
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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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The end of history (of philosophy)
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On the wisdom of Noah Smith (Bret Devereaux on the historic method)
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Why no Roman industrial revolution?
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Logistics: How did they do it? Part III, on the move
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Leopoldo López on activism under autocratic regimes
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The maintenance race
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Three things I got wrong about patriarchy
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When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?
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The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
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The mechanical transmission of power: Stangenkunst
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How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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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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