Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border
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American unreality - In breaking the link between politics and objective truth, the United States seeks to fashion a new world – but it is one built on shifting sands
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Human history gets a rewrite
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What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
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Why Confederate lies live on
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What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed
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Why Confederate lies live on
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Lincoln's great depression
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters
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Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate.
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Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
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A sea story
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How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
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Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999)
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What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States
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Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Hiroshima (1946)
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Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away
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The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime
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How the coronavirus compares with 100 years of deadly events
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The case for reparations: We've had 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of separate but equal and 35 years of racist housing policy. Without addressing this, the US can't move on
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President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
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How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Hitler
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud
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Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979)
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The Muslim world’s question: ‘What happened to us?’
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Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance
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How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US
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The 1619 Project by the New York Times
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The case for reparations
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Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games
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Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking.
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The birth of cheap communication (and junk mail)
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M-16: A bureaucratic horror story
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A sea story
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One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche.
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund
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The myth of whiteness in classical sculpture
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HMB Endeavour found: One of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time solved
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The secret history of Leviticus
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