No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
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Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
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Frantz Fanon’s enduring legacy – The post-colonial thinker’s seminal book, “The Wretched of the Earth,” described political oppression in psychological terms
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Notes on the Ivory Coast
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The divorce colony
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When the New York Times lost its way
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Persephone is in the underworld during the summer, not the winter
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My country isn’t a nation (2021)
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The New Jersey Hindu temple covered with 10,000 sculptures, marble elephants, ample parking, and a federal investigation into how it all got built
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Two philosophy scholars discuss and advocate for secularism in Iran
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The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas
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The bizarre story behind Shinzo Abe’s assassination
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Since when is philosophy a branch of the self help industry?
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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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How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)
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Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language
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Ada Palmer on viking metaphysics, contingent moments, and censorship
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends-- finding more like this with NLP
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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 earthquakes in Turkey killed a prolific war crimes investigator, deputy chief of Syria investigations for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability
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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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Icono: A universal language that shows what it says
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Hunting for the Lizard People: On the dangerous conspiracy theories that led to the Nashville bombing
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Regarding the eviction of the self-organized refugee camp in Lavrio, Greece. How Turkey's war on Kurds and the European Union’s War on migrants intersect
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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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Learn a foreign language before it’s too late
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The status quo coalition
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The misunderstood Roman empress who willed her way to the top
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How a megachurch wields power in a regional California city and influence in the music industry
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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 great convergence in global equality
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The Principle of Charity: Assume the best interpretation of people’s arguments
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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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Democracy is the solution to vetocracy
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Birth of a nation
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