Robert Caro on the art of biography
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That collective feeling - The rise and fall of New York City clubbing
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Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
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AI and the American smile
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Review: Fears of a Setting Sun, by Dennis C. Rasmussen
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Declassified memo from US codebreaker sheds light on Ethel Rosenberg's Cold War spy case
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9/11 attacks in realtime (dashboard) 7:46am-12:00pm
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How the rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age Americans’ privacy
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How the KKK scammed its members for cash
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Inside Ziklag, the secret organization of wealthy Christians trying to sway the US election and change the country
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The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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Debunking the myth of Hollywood's "fake" transatlantic accent
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An American bought a $4 vase. Turns out, it's a lost ancient Maya treasure.
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The Ten Commandments must be displayed in all public Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law
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Evangelical pastor discusses the link between Barabbas and MAGA Christian nationalism
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American reconstruction was sabotaged. But what if it hadn't been?
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Questions about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion standards
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Divers find remains of Finnish World War II plane that was shot down by Moscow with a US diplomat aboard
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When the US CIA messes up
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The bridges of New York City
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RIP to the greatest CEO you've never heard of (2022)
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How to build 300,000 airplanes in five years
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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Why were Ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?
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MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process
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How (and why) the right stole Christianity
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B-17 Flying Fortress | Units of History
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Why Panama dollarized
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Remembering May 4 (Kent State massacre) - An interview with Devo's Jerry Casale
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The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage”
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Where will people commune in a godless America?
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About General Grant’s memoirs
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How the Berlin Wall worked
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Rongelap Atoll: America’s nuclear mistake
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Pittsburgh smokers more inclined to say jagoff than yinz
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The Space Shuttle misdirection (1991)
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A new archive of modern American political history
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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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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh
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The endangered languages of New York
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The Greenwich meridian's forgotten rival
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An American education: Notes from UATX
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The American Idol theme park experience
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California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
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American Bar Association calls for US courts to find a different word than master, citing history and negative associations
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Christian Super Bowl commercial outrages US conservatives
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Does your Irish child speak with an American accent? The change may not last forever, linguistic expert says.
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Mennonites are pious Christians who eschew much of the modern world. But in Mexico even they have not escaped the pull of the drug cartels.
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Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage
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