An overview of Brazilian emperor Dom Pedro II's life and regency
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How Rome destroyed its own republic
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When Americans committed insurrection: Until 2021, Americans had confronted federal authority with armed aggression just four times
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Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution?
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The Mexican American border: A tale of two colonies (Part 1/2)
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AskHistorians write-up on January 2021 sedition at the US Capitol
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Who named the United States and what alternatives gained the most traction?
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Why didn't the Virginias reunite?
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On Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, slavery and socialism in the years following the US Civil War
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The Great Depression explained, globally
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The break-up of the Soviet Union, explained
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A sea story
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A plane without wings: The story of the C.450 Coléoptère
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How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month
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The Sino-Soviet split: How did Soviet Russia and China become enemies?
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How did the Soviet government work?
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The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
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How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
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That Downfall scene explained: What is Adolf Hitler freaking out about?
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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Verdigris: The color of oxidation, statues, and impermanence
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This month Norwegian archaeologists hope to complete their excavation of a rare, buried longship at Gjellestad, an ancient site south-east of Oslo
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
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'Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest
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Why Nova Scotia sends Boston a tree every year
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Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years
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How triangles shrank France and the first modern map | Map Men
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"Brilliant" plans to win World War II: how France planned to win the war against Nazi Germany
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The forgotten number system of the Cistercians
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This is neoliberalism
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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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How did traffic law come to be?
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Why writing philosophy is hard (and why every historical philosopher focuses on the wrong things)
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How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
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This plane tried to do the impossible: The Caproni Transaereo
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Did the US founders have contemporary exposure to demagoguery?
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Iron, how did they make it? Part I, Mining
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In Louisiana, Cajuns are keen to preserve their identity
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The (modern) history of oil
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An old Norse 'godhouse' has been discovered in Norway – site reflects how the rise of Christianity to the south affected the worship of the Norse pantheon
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How the 1619 Project took over 2020 in the US
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Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999)
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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 tolerant and worryingly modern Vikings
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Helicron propeller driven car (1932)
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History of US political parties (part 1)
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Scottish nitroglycerin and one legged stools
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