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17 votes
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The ten best and ten worst US foreign policy decisions
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Economic ideas and policy implementation: Evidence from Malthusian training in British Indian bureaucracy
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In the 1930s a radical conservative faction almost pushed Finland into full authoritarianism
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A Norwegian rocket launched on 25th January 1995 to study the Northern Lights was mistaken by Russia for an incoming nuclear missile on a direct course to Moscow
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Texas A&M, under new curriculum limits, warns professor not to teach Plato
44 votes -
Why is liberalism adrift? From social democracy to the Democratic Party liberalism: how parties learn to speak the language of constraint -- and what it costs them.
16 votes -
Letters from an American November 26, 2025 - The historical origin of the US Federal Thanksgiving holiday
13 votes -
Libertarianism is dead
36 votes -
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
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How the Dutch deleted the sea... and got rich! | Map Men
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How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
19 votes -
The British empire’s role in ending slavery worldwide
28 votes -
Indira Gandhi's emergency: when India's democracy was put on pause
12 votes -
In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it
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The mystery of Winston Churchill's dead platypus was unsolved - until now
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Status, class, and the crisis of expertise
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The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
24 votes -
The American civil-military relationship
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James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
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The Faroe Islands are the only country that celebrates their World War II occupation
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Throwing in the towel: The case for surrender
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How Christianity took over pagan Scandinavia
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In the mid-20th century, Britain and Iceland went to war. Sort of. All over the precious resource of cod.
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The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing the country's past in extraordinary detail.
9 votes -
Juneteenth: A visual history
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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.
4 votes -
Wernher von Braun’s record on civil rights
11 votes -
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen is seeking to extend 2018 niqab ban to educational institutions and remove prayer rooms, citing concerns about social control and oppression
5 votes -
Why did the UK government nationalise this pub?
10 votes -
Mass psychosis - how an entire population becomes mentally ill
11 votes -
Did the United States almost support Nazi Germany in World War II? (No)
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New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
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Book review of Robert Ferguson's fascinating history of the experiences of the Norwegians during the five years of German occupation
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Ken Taylor and the Canadian Caper
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US President John F. Kennedy files expose family secrets: their relatives were CIA assets
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The failure of the land value tax in the UK
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Popping the bag: What happens when a group, once powerful, is suppressed or disbanded? Where do its members go?
12 votes -
Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war
12 votes -
How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
10 votes -
Andrew Jackson ‘paralyzed’ Washington with cuts
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on 'soft' fascism, AI and the effects of shamelessness in public life
16 votes -
How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939)
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Looking for a visualization of North American political boundaries over time
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or...
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or interactive visualization that I can scroll back and forward through time to see the changes in detail?
Things I'm particularly interested in tracking:
- Indigenous lands (specifically how the boundaries of traditional/ancestral lands evolved into modern-day reservations)
- European claims like those of Britain, France, and Spain
- What was considered US/Canada/Mexico territory vs. no man's land or frontier at different points in time, from the governance standpoint of each of those nations
- Large and rapid settling movements like the Mormons into Utah, Oklahoma land rush, California gold rush, etc.
- Other factors like homesteading programs (I don't know much about this) and the transcontinental railroad, confederacy borders, trail of tears, etc.
- Notable battles/massacres marking bloody land disputes
I mean I guess that's a lot, this is basically "tell me about all of American history." 😂
I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp of the general political timeline and important events, I'm just realizing lately that I don't have a cohesive mental model of how it all fits on a map and changed over the years. I did find the Wikipedia page on Territorial Evolution of the United States to be interesting but it's a bit overwhelming and not very digestible. It contains this animated gif, which is awesome but I can't scroll through it at my own pace, and it's USA only.
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How long? Not long! - Martin Luther King
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Denmark has dropped the Three Crowns, a symbol of the Kalmar Union since the 14th century, from its own coat of arms
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How elite backlash to the populist reforms of the Gracchi brothers presaged the violent collapse of the Roman Republic
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Why the Soviet Union was obsessed with corn
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History is in the making - It's technology and ideas, not politics, that change our lives the most. History should reflect that.
10 votes