For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage Article 1014 words 10 votes
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Preserving Egypt’s layered history reveals 'stories of the restoration of diverse locations around Egypt' Article 422 words 5 votes
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 Article 411 words 8 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. Article 8055 words 5 votes
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. Article 5121 words 24 votes
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 Article 1541 words, published Oct 3 2017 9 votes
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history Article 10 883 words 16 votes
In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too Article 1485 words, published Oct 22 2018 7 votes
Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away Article 2010 words, published Jun 22 2020 5 votes
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 Article 8171 words 8 votes
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 Article 14 406 words, published Jun 3 2014 32 votes
Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler Article 529 words, published Mar 13 2012 5 votes
Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems Article 1239 words 7 votes
How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history Article 3263 words 8 votes
The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’ Article 4106 words 9 votes
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 Article 8361 words 11 votes
Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979) Article 146 words, published Oct 28 1979 7 votes
The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’ Article 3066 words, published Jan 25 2020 5 votes
How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US Article 2552 words, published Dec 29 2019 5 votes
Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him Article 3434 words 10 votes
The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide Article 4324 words 5 votes
West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there Article 407 words 8 votes
A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway Article 491 words 10 votes
Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents Article 880 words 5 votes
Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years Article 495 words 7 votes