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Boatlift - The spontaneous evacuation of lower Manhatten on 9 11 2001 - narrated by Tom Hanks ~humanities.history Video 11:57, published Sep 7 2011 7 votes
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Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. ~humanities.history Video 8:47 3 votes
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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 ~humanities.history Article 7147 words 15 votes
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The history of the Comstock Act, the 150 year old law conservatives in the US are banking on to ban abortion ~humanities.history Article 1649 words 31 votes
The psychedelic drug that conquered Europe ~humanities.history Video 11:29, published Mar 8 2023 11 votes
Hunting for the Lizard People: On the dangerous conspiracy theories that led to the Nashville bombing ~humanities.history Article 3030 words, published Jul 20 2023 10 votes
Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA ~humanities.history Article 1228 words 15 votes
The lost patients of Washington state's abandoned psychiatric hospital ~humanities.history Article 1389 words 21 votes
Inside the 1971 campaign to save Seattle's Pike Place Market ~humanities.history Article 5229 words 12 votes
The Battle of Fishkill: When Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his restaurant empire in upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war ~humanities.history Article 6174 words 6 votes
Some historians say that the last US Revolutionary War battle was fought in India ~humanities.history Article 14 votes
A July Fourth collection of essays related to the US Independence Day ~humanities.history Link 7 votes
The most famous NYT crossword: 1996 presidential election day ~humanities.history Article 562 words 18 votes
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The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped ~humanities.history Video 21:02 7 votes