History is always changing. That doesn’t mean bad actors are always trying to obscure the truth, but rather that our understanding of…
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Recreational marijuana use didn’t become an issue in the United States until after the Mexican Revolution in the 1910s, when immigrants arriving…
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When you think of the Ancient world, you probably think of Egypt, Babylon, various Chinese dynasties, and of course Greece and Rome.…
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Everyone knows Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. But there have been plenty of other kings, emperors, military dictators, generalissimos, presidents-for-life than…
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History is a funny thing. Laid out in a textbook, it all seems rather simple. Fact follows fact, and each historical event…
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It is a common refrain that prostitution is the oldest profession in the world. If that is true, then the second oldest…
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Ancient Rome and Greece are often cited as the birthplace of Western culture and the cradle of amazing thinkers and artists to…
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They say that beauty is pain, but some fashion trends are so horrifying that they’re actually painful for everyone who sees them.…
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History rewrites the past. It doesn’t just record what happened—it changes it. With a sweep of the pen, it labels whole nations…
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“I would carry fire in one hand,” an early American preacher once told his congregation, “to burn all the Quakers in the…