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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Chains or whips: The cruel decade and its aftermath
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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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The enduring friendship between Ireland and the Choctaw Nation: One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations
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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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Huey P. Newton, the misunderstood visionary behind the Black Panther Party
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Escaping East Germany in a DIY aircraft wasn’t enough for Ivo Zdarsky, so he invented his own way of life in a Utah desert ghost town
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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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Hunting for the Lizard People: On the dangerous conspiracy theories that led to the Nashville bombing
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How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR
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The Marian reforms weren't a thing
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Inside the 1971 campaign to save Seattle's Pike Place Market
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The status quo coalition
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The Battle of Fishkill: When Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his restaurant empire in upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war
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The misunderstood Roman empress who willed her way to the top
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering
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The spy whose tapes rocked Spanish society
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Inside the secret world of Russia's Cold War mapmakers
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Birth of a nation
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On progress and historical change
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True kilts: Debunking the myths about highlanders and clan tartans
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The blast furnace - 800 years of technology improvement
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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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The end of history (of philosophy)
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On the wisdom of Noah Smith (Bret Devereaux on the historic method)
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Why no Roman industrial revolution?
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Logistics: How did they do it? Part III, on the move
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Leopoldo López on activism under autocratic regimes
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The maintenance race
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Three things I got wrong about patriarchy
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When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?
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The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
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The mechanical transmission of power: Stangenkunst
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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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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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