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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." MLK, 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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How Americans discussed democracy in the 1930's
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Social contagion: How China's rapid development created the conditions for an epidemic
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The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
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The Hamilton Hustle
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The pirate radio broadcaster who occupied Alcatraz and terrified the FBI
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A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel
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The dognapping of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush in 1846, and how she negotiated for his safe return just before secretly eloping with Robert Browning
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When the USS John S. McCain crashed in the Pacific, the Navy blamed the destroyer’s crew for the loss of ten sailors. The truth is the Navy’s flawed technology set the McCain up for disaster
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This island of Minos: Crete in the Bronze Age
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Behind Hong Kong’s resolve: Locals’ view of a city under siege
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The massacre that spawned the alt-right
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Iron: From mythical to mundane
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Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
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The Oracle of Delphi - Chapter 1: The Center of the World
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A history of Hong Kong's contentious politics
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Was Sweden headed toward socialism in the 1970s?
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On this day in 1791, the only successful slave uprising in history began
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The metastasizing cancer of the Southern Strategy
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Grenada’s revolution at forty
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We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture
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The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain
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The Impossible Dream - How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness?
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The oral history of the Super Soaker - How a NASA engineer accidentally invented the greatest water gun of all time
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When workers stopped Seattle
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