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The illusion of a “marketplace of ideas” and the right to truth Article 5157 words, published Feb 20 2019 8 votes
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The top six medical inventions during the American civil war ~humanities.history Article 1732 words, published Jan 28 2019 9 votes
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American History Textbooks' Lies: Everything Your Teacher Got Wrong - Myths, Education (1995) ~humanities.history Video 57:03, published Jun 3 2014 9 votes
Revolutionary War fighting ended in 1781. The last shots exploded two months ago. ~humanities.history Article 2156 words 10 votes
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The overlooked history of African American skate culture ~humanities.history Article 1312 words 6 votes
How the US has hidden its empire: The United States likes to think of itself as a republic, but it holds territories all over the world – the map you always see doesn’t tell the whole story. ~humanities.history Article 3234 words 12 votes
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Seeking Utopia in Louisiana - The lost story of a group of socialists who built an extraordinary, but flawed, colony ~humanities.history Article 3326 words 9 votes
Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald ~humanities.history Article 6 votes
Black mecca or most unequal US city: Will the real Atlanta please stand up? ~humanities.history Article 1514 words, published Oct 22 2018 7 votes
In the 19th century, American theatres provided the stage for a war between high and low culture, the elite and ‘Know-Nothings’ – and Britain and the US. In 1849, events turned bloody. ~humanities.history Article 1933 words 6 votes
Children of Ted - Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes ~humanities.history Article 667 words, published Dec 11 2018 9 votes
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A brief history of US dirty wars in Central America that set the stage for the refugee crisis ~humanities.history Video 9:24, published Dec 2 2018 4 votes
Major for-profit college chain abruptly announces closure of dozens of schools education.higher Article 848 words 12 votes
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise? ~humanities.history Article 7325 words, published Nov 28 2018 20 votes
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Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened ~humanities.history Article 3683 words 10 votes
A toy monkey that escaped Nazi Germany and reunited a family ~humanities.history Article 1514 words 6 votes
Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs ~humanities.history Article 1195 words 8 votes
Humanists going all the way: AHA to defend church-state separation at the Supreme Court religion Article 618 words, published Nov 5 2018 11 votes
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee ~humanities.history Article 3501 words, published Oct 23 2018 9 votes
American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund ~humanities.history Article 168 words, published Jun 5 2017 10 votes