Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms?
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Getting inked up? Thank Thomas Edison.
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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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Why measuring the impact of Lend-Lease is so difficult
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Pacific Series part 1/5: Why attacking Pearl Harbor was the least bad option Japan had
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The Jewish roots of Old Bay Seasoning
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The USAAF intercepts and shoots down Admiral Yamamoto, 1943 - Animated
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What if the war of 1812 had a victor?
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How did the USSR react to JFK's assassination?
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The Jim Crow North: You probably know about the long fight against segregation in the South. But US civil rights struggles in the rest of the nation have often been overlooked.
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Katrina’s hidden race war
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The little-known Albert Einstein: An ardent defender of black Americans against racism
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A brief overview of popular slang of the 1920s in the US
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Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online
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Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate.
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Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
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Richard Feynman and the bomb
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Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs. The bags had marijuana in them.
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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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How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month
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Why Nova Scotia sends Boston a tree every year
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This is neoliberalism
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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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Did the US founders have contemporary exposure to demagoguery?
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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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How the 1619 Project took over 2020 in the US
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History of US political parties (part 1)
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What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States
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There is a button
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Thomas Frank on the podcast "Useful Idiots"
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When fascism was American; using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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The (literally) unbelievable story of the original fake news network
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Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
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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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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
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How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama
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How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
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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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Ask Historians: How did Lincoln's political agenda on slavery change before and during the war?
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