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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The gossip trap - How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it
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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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1891 New Orleans lynchings
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Notes on Guyana
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How China is like the 19th century US
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A trail gone cold
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Review: Fears of a Setting Sun, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
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Review: South Africa's Brave New World, by R.W. Johnson
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The Circassian genocide, Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 95–97% of the Circassians, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths during the Russo-Circassian War
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The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II)
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When the CIA messes up
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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Alexander the Great's untold story: Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king
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Bread, how did they make it? Part IV: Markets, merchants and the tax man
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Unlocking the mystery of Paris' most secret underground society
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Why Panama dollarized
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About General Grant’s memoirs
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A Roman diplomat’s famous fifth-century journey into the heart of Hunnic territory
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On the nature of ancient evidence
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The Space Shuttle misdirection (1991)
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Surprising detail in New York bank records helped a historian bust a longstanding myth about Irish immigrants
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The Second Soul, Part I (on salt)
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List of unusual units of measurement
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Tools for thinking about censorship
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No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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The divorce colony
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Persephone is in the underworld during the summer, not the winter
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The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas
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Early anthropologist Zelia Nuttall transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica and the Aztecs
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Why the “privacy” wars rage on
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Settler colonialism is not just a historic evil but a modern-day one
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Ada Palmer on viking metaphysics, contingent moments, and censorship
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Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
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What is History?
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How Emily Wilson made Homer modern
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The villa where doctors experimented on children
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The race to catch the last Nazis
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The Roman custom: A discussion of war crimes and atrocities committed by Ancient Rome
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How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, fifty years on from Chile’s US-backed coup
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We do not know the population of every country in the world for the past two thousand years
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A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history
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Götterdämmerung in the East - The Eastern Front in WWII after Stalingrad
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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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Rome’s libraries were shrines to knowledge – and imperial power
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