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…
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As you’re reading this article on your computer, tablet, or phone, take stock of your current situation. Are you being poked in…
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We all know World War II was complex; that’s part of what makes it a world war. But three quarters of a…
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Everyone makes mistakes. Maybe you forgot to buy milk at the grocery store, or perhaps an important e-mail to your boss went…
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Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good. Other times, if it weren’t for bad luck, we’d have no luck at all.…
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We talk about slavery almost as if it was something that only happened in the United States. Slavery is treated as a…
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Every Roman emperor has a few crazy stories under his belt, but none of them compare to the tales of Caligula. He’s…
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Solving crimes was a lot harder before DNA testing. Detectives today have a whole arsenal of crime scene investigation tools and gadgets…
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Today, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is a well-known part of history. But the hard reality nobody seems…