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On the US Declaration of Independence
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From 1638-1655 a forgotten Swedish settlement extended across the Delaware Valley – smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived European colony in the US was also the most clandestine
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How a Swedish king went on strike in 1768 – this moment in political history poses an interesting question: does a monarchy need a monarch?
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Kim Bowes on the economic lives of Rome's ninety percent
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Against the state – a primer on terrorism, insurgency and protest
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The ten best and ten worst US foreign policy decisions
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Economic ideas and policy implementation: Evidence from Malthusian training in British Indian bureaucracy
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In the 1930s a radical conservative faction almost pushed Finland into full authoritarianism
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A Norwegian rocket launched on 25th January 1995 to study the Northern Lights was mistaken by Russia for an incoming nuclear missile on a direct course to Moscow
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Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday
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How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
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How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Indira Gandhi's emergency: when India's democracy was put on pause
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In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
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The American civil-military relationship
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James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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How Christianity took over pagan Scandinavia
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing the country's past in extraordinary detail.
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Juneteenth: A visual history
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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Wernher von Braun’s record on civil rights
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Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
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Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in World War II? (No)
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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
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Book review of Robert Ferguson's fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation
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Ken Taylor and the Canadian Caper
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US President John F. Kennedy files expose family secrets: their relatives were CIA assets
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The failure of the land value tax in the UK
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Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
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How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939)
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Looking for a visualization of North American political boundaries over time
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or...
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or interactive visualization that I can scroll back and forward through time to see the changes in detail?
Things I'm particularly interested in tracking:
- Indigenous lands (specifically how the boundaries of traditional/ancestral lands evolved into modern-day reservations)
- European claims like those of Britain, France, and Spain
- What was considered US/Canada/Mexico territory vs. no man's land or frontier at different points in time, from the governance standpoint of each of those nations
- Large and rapid settling movements like the Mormons into Utah, Oklahoma land rush, California gold rush, etc.
- Other factors like homesteading programs (I don't know much about this) and the transcontinental railroad, confederacy borders, trail of tears, etc.
- Notable battles/massacres marking bloody land disputes
I mean I guess that's a lot, this is basically "tell me about all of American history." 😂
I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp of the general political timeline and important events, I'm just realizing lately that I don't have a cohesive mental model of how it all fits on a map and changed over the years. I did find the Wikipedia page on Territorial Evolution of the United States to be interesting but it's a bit overwhelming and not very digestible. It contains this animated gif, which is awesome but I can't scroll through it at my own pace, and it's USA only.
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How long? Not long! - Martin Luther King
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Denmark has dropped the Three Crowns, a symbol of the Kalmar Union since the 14th century, from its own coat of arms
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How elite backlash to the populist reforms of the Gracchi brothers presaged the violent collapse of the Roman Republic
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Why the Soviet Union was obsessed with corn
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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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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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Is the current war in Palestine the first time the victim wound up being seen as the aggressor?
Something interesting about the latest escalations in the Israel-Palestine war since oct of last year is that Hamas was the one who launched the terrorist attack which lead to the current...
Something interesting about the latest escalations in the Israel-Palestine war since oct of last year is that Hamas was the one who launched the terrorist attack which lead to the current escalation.
Israel suffered a loss and was the victim on that day and the following days, but since their actions in Gaza and Rafah and other neighboring countries, the coverage of Israel very much shows the govt of Israel as the aggressor. It's felt like a complete role reversal to me.
Makes me wonder if this is the first time this has happened in such a short time? You can say that U.S. did the same thing after 9/11 but imo it's actions in the Middle east did not gain it a negative perception amongst world leaders nearly as fast.
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A history of US cabinet appointments ...and why they matter
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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