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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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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Independence National Park is an embarrassing mess. Why doesn’t anyone care?
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Death In Ice Valley – New clues in Isdal Woman mystery
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The case for reparations
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This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest.
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'Where was the Lord?': On Jefferson Davis' birthday, nine slave testimonies
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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten?
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The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
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Mankind, unite!
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‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California
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The spoil of mariners
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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This, too, was history. The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
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How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story.
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The fatal ensnaring of Dan DePew
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Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony
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Socrates versus Roger Stone
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The Pyramids of Giza - Chapter 1: The charlatan and the gossip
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Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time
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A sea story
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The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
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Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened
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Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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