Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
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How the rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age Americans’ privacy
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Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection
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Explore Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton's famous Antarctic ship with new "Digital Twin"
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Vast coin collection of Danish butter magnate L.E. Bruun is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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How the Berlin Wall worked
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Rongelap Atoll: America’s nuclear mistake
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A retrospective on the Baltic road to NATO
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
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Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein
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The Republican Revolution and how the party switch actually happened
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‘We put in air conditionin’, stayed year-round, and ruined America’
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An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust
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Newly published transcripts show the work of early radio broadcaster Walter Benjamin and the details he observed about his time
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The post-WWI migrations that built Yugoslavia and Turkey have left a painful legacy
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Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
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Hold the line - The short history of women switchboard operators
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Cold War British RMP video shown to travellers before driving from West Germany to West Berlin through the Soviet East German corridor
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Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong
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How Gloria Steinem lent Wonder Woman a helping hand
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Military operations in East Ukraine (1919-1942)
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What happened to flying wings?
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America's forgotten vampire panic
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Much of what you've heard about Carter and Reagan is wrong
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A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy for ever
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The filing cabinet was critical to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century. Like most infrastructure, it was usually overlooked.
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The final days and dissolution of Austria-Hungary
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How socialists solved the housing crisis of Vienna after WW1 and how we can do it again
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The lost history of socialism’s DIY computer
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Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
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Being Finnish: A Guide For Soviet Spies – An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals
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For eleven years, the Soviet Union had no weekends
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Decades-old photography from the U-2 spy program now offers a time machine to see traces of the historical and ancient past
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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Raoul Wallenberg is thought to have saved as many as 30,000 Jews but his descendants do not know how, when or why he died
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No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation
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Goodbye, show world: The last days of Times Square’s peep shows
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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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Basil Banghart, an incredibly interesting American criminal, burglar and prison escape artist
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