Independence National Park is an embarrassing mess. Why doesn’t anyone care?
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Death In Ice Valley – New clues in Isdal Woman mystery
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The case for reparations
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This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest
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'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, nine slave testimonies
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
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Mankind, unite!
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‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
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The spoil of mariners
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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This, too, was history. The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
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How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story.
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The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew
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Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony
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Socrates versus Roger Stone
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The Pyramids of Giza - Chapter 1: The Charlatan and the Gossip
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Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time
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A sea story
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The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
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Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened
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Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
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The suffocation of American democracy
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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“I now know what it’s like to have A 110-story building come down on my head.”
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How to change the course of human history
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The city born in a day: The origin story of Oklahoma City
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Axes of evil. Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III.
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Axes of evil - Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III
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What is the Muslim world?
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The Zero Meter Diving Team - A story of family, loss, and the Chernobyl disaster
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Hiroshima - a 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing and its aftermath
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I know why poor Whites chant Trump, Trump, Trump: From the era of slavery to the rise of Donald Trump, wealthy elites have relied on the loyalty of poor whites. All Americans deserve better
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Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu — A tale of ancient philosophers, alien abductions, murder-for-hire and how the world’s largest pearl came to be the centerpiece of an 80-year-old hoax
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Black Achilles - The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
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