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Muslims of early America: Muslims came to America more than a century before Protestants, and in great numbers. How was their history forgotten? ~humanities.history Article 4402 words 14 votes
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Indigenous educators fight for an accurate history of California ~humanities.history Article 4894 words 7 votes
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The intellectual we deserve – Jordan Peterson's popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape Article 11 549 words 35 votes
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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
M-16: A bureaucratic horror story ~humanities.history Article 8377 words, published Jun 1 1981 8 votes
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This, too, was history. The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools. ~humanities.history Link 7 votes
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The Pyramids of Giza - Chapter 1: The Charlatan and the Gossip ~humanities.history Article 4598 words, published Jan 11 2019 4 votes
Two intricate calligraphy pages from the sixteenth-century manuscript “Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta” have been decoded for the first time ~humanities.history Article 3433 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
Jonestown’s victims have a lesson to teach us, so I listened ~humanities.history Article 3683 words 10 votes
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee ~humanities.history Article 3501 words, published Oct 23 2018 9 votes
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To heil, or not to heil, when traveling in the Third Reich ~humanities.history Article 4343 words 6 votes
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