An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms
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The gossip trap - How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it
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A Man of Parts and Learning - The story behind a portrait of a black intellectual from the 1700s
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History is in the making - It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
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Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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Rome’s libraries were shrines to knowledge – and imperial power
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A July Fourth collection of essays related to the US Independence Day
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Illustrations of madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
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The city that fell off a cliff
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Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why.
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How do ancient stories of talking elephants and singing birds encourage a life of truth, nonviolence and compassion?
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
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What to do when the KKK shoots and other lessons from Houston’s underground paper
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Tolerance by Accident, Trust by Design
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When hope is a hindrance
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The American Aristotle
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The history of humiliation points to the future of human dignity
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History as end: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past
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Ashoka's moral empire
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The dreams of an inventor in 1420
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On this day in 1791, the only successful slave uprising in history began
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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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A revolution in time - Once local and irregular, time-keeping became universal and linear in 311 BCE
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The Neanderthal renaissance
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Xenophon: The ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing
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Bonfire of the humanities: The role of history in a society afflicted by short-termism
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American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
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The big squeeze: Sicily’s mafia sprang from the growing global market for lemons – a tale with sour parallels for consumers today
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What is the Muslim world?
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Voltaire and the Buddha: How the French Enlightenment thinker prefigured an approach now familiar in the West
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Black Achilles - The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
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