Vikings who reached the Americas 500 years before Christopher Columbus – exploration was retold, centuries later, in sagas that were the stuff of epic literature rather than history books
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Fifteen years since Occupy Wall Street. An analysis of its effects.
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From peas to paper to web portals: the evolution of the ballot in America
3 votes -
The history of US school dress codes
7 votes -
After work, we’ll have each other
21 votes -
Where did all the public bathrooms go?
26 votes -
Ordinary Abundance
32 votes -
The Oregon Trail’s hidden graves are being found by cadaver dogs
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Rare copy of Declaration of Independence found by UK National Archives in papers of captured US ship
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On the US Declaration of Independence
15 votes -
Thunder mug and tea voider: understanding the chamber pot in early America
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From 1638-1655 a forgotten Swedish settlement extended across the Delaware Valley – smallest, least-populated and shortest-lived European colony in the US was also the most clandestine
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An open letter to the University of California Regents requesting that standardized testing be re-introduced into admissions, >200 UC Professors signatures
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Iceland pushes Apple to add Icelandic language support
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The 18th-century English fake news that helped spawn an American sea
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As an antidote to AI and online translation tools, a Cornell German professor gives her students a typewriter-only assignment once a semester
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Tattooing in the American Civil War was a hedge against anonymous death
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The (illegal) nuclear reactor buried under Greenland
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Here's to the polypropylene makers
13 votes -
First contact with America
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Against the state – a primer on terrorism, insurgency and protest
17 votes -
The ten best and ten worst US foreign policy decisions
15 votes -
Buddhist monks speak at the National Cathedral in Washington
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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
10 votes -
Texas A&M, under new curriculum limits, warns professor not to teach Plato
44 votes -
A, B, C or D – grades might not say all that much about what students are actually learning
17 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
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First-ever empirical study of US rabbinate finds ‘shortage’ is more about fit than numbers
12 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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“The Edmund Fitzgerald - First divers on the Fitz”
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The almost forgotten Japanese-American truce at Aka
20 votes -
The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
18 votes -
The entire history of cat memes
11 votes -
What it takes to be a revolutionary war enactor
12 votes -
How America nearly forged a different path in 1916
19 votes -
How John D Rockefeller and his partners built Standard Oil
9 votes -
Voices of the Manhattan Project: Peggy Bowditch’s interview
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The man who ran a carnival attraction that saved thousands of premature babies wasn’t a doctor at all
33 votes -
On weird America
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Life and death aboard a B-17, 1944
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Vatican sent Italian children born out of wedlock to America as orphans; new book uncovers program
25 votes -
The deportation campaigns of the Great Depression
24 votes -
The American civil-military relationship
13 votes -
James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass’ speech about the 4th of July
18 votes -
Juneteenth: A 99-year-old celebrates Underground Railroad quilts
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Juneteenth: A visual history
13 votes -
Wernher von Braun’s record on civil rights
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They don’t read very well: A study of the reading comprehension skills of English majors at two midwestern universities
54 votes