Lost on the ice: The 1897 hydrogen balloon attempt to reach the North Pole
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Over 200 years after being sunk by the British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson, one of Denmark's most famous warships has been discovered at the bottom of Copenhagen Harbor
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Tattooing in the American Civil War was a hedge against anonymous death
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The Candlemakers' Petition by Frédéric Bastiat (1845)
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Hundreds of mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales
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How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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How Rockefeller and his partners built Standard Oil
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The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
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Was this English queen a 'predatory' collector of beautiful things?
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James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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On the Norwegian coast, a tree is transformed into a boat the old-fashioned way at the Hardanger Maritime Centre museum
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Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The engineering marvel built to defend against Americans - The grisly history of the Rideau Canal
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The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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1891 New Orleans lynchings
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How China is like the 19th century US
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A trail gone cold
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The Circassian genocide, Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 95–97% of the Circassians, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths during the Russo-Circassian War
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Divers have discovered a 19th-century shipwreck off the Swedish coast loaded to the brim with champagne
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In the 1600s Sweden was a great military power – why did they decline?
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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This American Civil War submarine vanished for 136 years
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The case against Charles Darwin: How the investigation into a grisly murder shocked 19th-century France and framed the scientist as an accomplice
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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge in the South Pacific before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? | Map Men
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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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The parliament of Imperial Austria
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No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
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The divorce colony
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How did Denmark defeat Prussia in 1848?
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Rise of Napoleon's Old Guard (1789-1803) (part 1) | Units of History
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Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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'Hallowed space': Canadian divers pull 275 artifacts from 2022 excavation of Franklin ship
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Thomas Carlyle - "Sign of the Times" (1829)
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How men found love in 1800s America was so awful it’s funny
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Tenement Museum virtual tour
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Little-known Black history comes to light in new documentary series
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America's forgotten vampire panic
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Bricks and the Industrial Revolution
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The Malê Rebellion in Bahia: Brazil’s African Muslim uprising
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Peace...? (1814)
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
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We've been telling the Alamo story wrong for nearly 200 years. Now it's time to correct the record
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Circulus theory: How one man wanted to save the world by taxing its poop
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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Getting inked up? Thank Thomas Edison.
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What if the war of 1812 had a victor?
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