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The US has never taken responsibility for spraying Agent Orange over Laos during the Vietnam War. Generations of ethnic minorities have endured the consequences. ~humanities.history Article 12 votes
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New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters ~humanities.history Article 1039 words, published Mar 2 2021 4 votes
Disney brought its streaming service to Iceland last year – the country's education minister has sent a letter of complaint over the lack of Icelandic dubbing and subtitling ~humanities.languages Article 1085 words 5 votes
Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate. ~humanities.history Article 1478 words 8 votes
The last handoff: How the Obama-Trump Presidential transition led to chaos ~humanities.history Article 8581 words 7 votes
How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month ~humanities.history Article 2222 words 8 votes
The world's most important body of water: The history of the South China Sea and four men who helped shape it ~humanities.history Article 4084 words 6 votes
The Skeleton Lake - Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there anthropology Article 6105 words 11 votes
Atheists are sometimes more religious than Christians religion Article 478 words, published May 31 2018 11 votes
The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare. ~humanities.history Article 8055 words 5 votes
The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. ~humanities.history Article 5121 words 24 votes
Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on the central Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Shiite holiday of Arbaeen, one of the largest organized gatherings in the world religion Article 381 words 6 votes
How we lie to ourselves about history: The You're Wrong About podcast debunks the stories of the past, but its real subject isn't so much facts as the process by which we absorb them ~humanities.history Article 1649 words 11 votes
Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999) ~humanities.history Article 1305 words, published Oct 17 1999 8 votes
What Jim Crow taught the Nazis: In the 1930s, the Nazi regime were fascinated by the global leader in codified race law — the United States ~humanities.history Article 1541 words, published Oct 3 2017 9 votes
Why are we in the West so weird? A theory ~humanities.history Article 1884 words, published Sep 12 2020 6 votes
From its origins airing the banter of bored firefighters to its robust classical programming today, Dallas’s WRR-FM has filled an unusual niche on the airwaves for nearly a century ~humanities.history Article 1832 words 4 votes
Academics are really, really worried about their freedom education linguistics Article 476 words 27 votes
The Bush-Gore recount is an omen for 2020: An oral history of the craziest presidential election in modern US history ~humanities.history Article 10 883 words 16 votes
Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away ~humanities.history Article 2010 words, published Jun 22 2020 5 votes