In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the US into more than five years of misery
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The enduring friendship between Ireland and the Choctaw Nation: One act of generosity during the Great Famine forged a bond that transcends generations
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Moe Berg was a baseball player-turned-spy who went undercover to assassinate the Nazis’ top nuclear scientist
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Huey P. Newton, the misunderstood visionary behind the Black Panther Party
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Escaping East Germany in a DIY aircraft wasn’t enough for Ivo Zdarsky, so he invented his own way of life in a Utah desert ghost town
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2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
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How an English exile ended up at the court of Genghis Khan's grandson
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"Abraham Lincoln" street in Nogales, Sonora
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The misunderstood Roman empress who willed her way to the top
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Hollywood loved Sammy Davis Jr. until he dated a white movie star
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The history of the ski chairlift
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A new documentary details the FBI's relentless pursuit of Martin Luther King Jr
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The history of Yellowstone: Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
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Joseph Rainey was the United States' first Black congressman
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An equine influenza in 1872 brought the US to a standstill and laid bare how essential horses were to the economy
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The quest to revive the Hawaiian language
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The remarkable and complex legacy of Native American military service
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How hedges became the unofficial emblem of Great Britain: The ubiquitous boxy bushes have defined the British landscape since the Bronze Age
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Why footbinding persisted in China for a millennium
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The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment
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A dazzling civilization flourished in Sudan nearly 5,000 years ago. Why was it forgotten?
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An interview with Playboy magazine nearly torpedoed Jimmy Carter's Presidential campaign: The pious Georgia Democrat spoke earnestly of his views on sex, a bridge too far for conservative Christians
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How the 1918 flu pandemic got meme-ified in jokes, songs, and poems
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20th-century slavery was hiding in plain sight: The El Monte sweatshop case exposed a web of corruption, and the enslavement of more than seventy Los Angeles area garment workers
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K-Ships vs. U-Boats: Blimps hunting submarines in the Battle of the Atlantic
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When Senator Joe McCarthy defended Nazis
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
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Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages
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Archaeologists discover paintings of goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy's coffin
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The history of the bulletproof vest
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How epidemics of the past changed the way Americans lived
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Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain
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The history of Scottish independence from the Roman era to the Jacobite revolts, the 2014 referendum, and Brexit
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The deadliest disaster in maritime history happened seventy-five years ago this week: Thousands of German citizens and soldiers fleeing the Soviet army died when the “Wilhelm Gustloff” sank
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A shipwreck off Florida’s coast pits archaeologists against treasure hunters
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In the 1980s, a far-left, female-led domestic terrorism group bombed the US capitol
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How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
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The fertile shore: Archaeologists and even geneticists are closer than ever to understanding when humans made the first bold journey to the Americas
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The secret mission to seize Nazi map data: How a covert US Army intelligence unit canvassed war-torn Europe, capturing intelligence with incalculable strategic value
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Inside the little-known story of the socialist Green Corn Rebellion, which blazed through Oklahoma a century ago
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The 175-year history of speculating about President James Buchanan’s bachelorhood and possible homosexuality
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The actress who left the stage to become an American Civil War spy
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What’s in a name? A little-known patchwork of bureaucratic boards are tasked with deciding when to change the names of geographic places
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Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland
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The invention that won World War II: Patented in 1944, the Higgins boat gave the Allies the advantage in amphibious assaults
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One of the few surviving heroes of D-Day shares his story: Army medic Ray Lambert, now 98, landed with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach
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During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw
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Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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