Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday
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How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
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How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Indira Gandhi's emergency: When India's democracy was put on pause
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In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The American civil-military relationship
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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How Christianity took over pagan Scandinavia
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing the country's past in extraordinary detail.
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Juneteenth: A visual history
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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Wernher von Braun’s record on civil rights
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Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in World War II? (No)
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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
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Book review of Robert Ferguson's fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation
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Ken Taylor and the Canadian Caper
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US President John F. Kennedy files expose family secrets: their relatives were CIA assets
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The failure of the land value tax in the UK
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Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
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How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939)
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