Rum rations in the navy during the 18th century: Grog
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Vatican opens archives of World War II-era Pope Pius XII
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History is marching
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There may never ever be another man as powerful as Stanislav Petrov
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On the 200th anniversary of his death, George III’s collection of more than 3,000 military maps, views and prints in the Royal Collection have been made publicly available online
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Soviets in Afhghanistan: The invasion that changed everything
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Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union
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The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war
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What if we nuke a city?
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Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper
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'Manhattan of the desert': Civil war puts Yemen's ancient skyscrapers at risk
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Denmark honours Bernhard Arp Sindberg who rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937
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Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories
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The metastasizing cancer of the Southern Strategy
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the cutting room floor
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Cyprus Crisis 1974
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A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration
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The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution.
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The fall of the caliphate
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The top six medical inventions during the American civil war
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Revolutionary War fighting ended in 1781. The last shots exploded two months ago.
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Kindertransport children to get 2,500 euros in compensation from German government
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A brief history of US dirty wars in Central America that set the stage for the refugee crisis
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The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
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Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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The Gauls really did embalm the severed heads of enemies, research shows
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I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on
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After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus
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Axes of evil. Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III.
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Axes of evil - Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III
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Hiroshima - a 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing and its aftermath
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The Battle of Ilerda (49 B.C.E.)
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