Depression-Era Governor Huey Long Wanted to Confiscate Individual Fortunes Over $1 Million, Possibly Leading to His 1935 Assassination

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Rope Equals Fire as Humanity’s Most Important Invention: It Allowed Hunting Mammoths and Building Pyramids

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The Scopes Trial Was Entirely Orchestrated But Became an Unintended 1920s Culture War Touchpoint

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The Panda Was First Discovered By Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons During a 9-Month Expedition in Himalayan China

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How Do We Really Know What Happened in the Past When Many Historians Were Propagandists and AI is Fabricating Everything Else?

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Eugénie de Montijo: The Spanish Empress Who Built Modern Paris and is Blamed For Imperial France’s Downfall

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John Adams: The Most Influential Yet Overlooked Founding Father?

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Why Thomas More -- Henry VIII’s Hatchet Man and Heretic Hunter -- Was Himself Executed For Heresy After the English Reformation

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Don’t Look to 1903s Germany to Understand American Populism. Look to 1830s New York Revivals Instead.

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Operation Barbarossa Saw Millions of POW Executions, Civilian Murders, and Starvation Deaths

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Pistol Duels Existed Across the 19th-Century World, But Only the Chaos of the American West Produced Gunfighters

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Rome Definitively Eclipsed Greece in 197 BC By Making the Alexandrian Phalanx/Cavalry Obsolete

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Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes

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Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade?

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Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State

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MacArthur’s Plans to Drop 50 Nuclear Bombs During the Korean War

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The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today

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Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant

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Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended

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How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer

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How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship

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Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands?

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How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War

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How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader

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Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?

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From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb

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Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2

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D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944

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Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides

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Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island

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The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War

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The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve?

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A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause

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How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing

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Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages?

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How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal

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Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct

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The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them?

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Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US

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Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell

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Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways?

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What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole

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Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball

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How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco

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Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road

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Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works)

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The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers

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Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers?

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The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon

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Everyday Life for the 500K German POWs House in America During World War Two

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The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States

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Owning Land Was The Best – and Usually Only – Way to Be Rich in the Ancient World

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Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks

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When American Gilded Elite Bought Up English Country Houses, It Create an Epic Transatlantic Clash of Cultures

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The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet

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How Did Gold Beat Out Every Other Precious Metal To Become Humanity’s Dominant Currency For the Last 2,600 Years?

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The 160-Minute Race to Save the Titanic

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200 Years Before the French Revolution, German Peasants Tried to Overthrow The Holy Roman Empire

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What the Middle Ages Can Teach Us About Pandemics, Mass Migration, and Tech Disruption

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Did Orson Welles’s 1938 ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast Really Cause a Mass Panic?

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A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Water

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The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?

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A Pre-WWI French Philosopher Was More Popular Than Elvis and Possibly Entered the US Into the Great War

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While Starving at Besieged Leningrad, Scientists Hid Drought-Resistant Crop Seeds That Could Prevent Future Famines

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Surviving Nearly 2 Years of Shipwreck on a South Pacific Island in the 1880s

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How Did 450 Boers Defeat 15,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?

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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 9: The End of North African Piracy and the Beginning of American Global Naval Hegemony

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When Did Americans Become Americans? 1945, 1865, 1787, or 1776?

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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 8: The Second Barbary War (1815)

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How Much of a Nation’s Fate is Bound Up In Its Geography?

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Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 7: An Uneasy Peace -- The Interbellum Period and the War of 1812

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The Scramble for More Aircraft Carriers in WW2 Meant Retrofitting Cruisers Into These Sorts of Ships

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Key Battles of the Barbary War, Episode 6: Swashbuckling Ship Battles and 500-Mile Desert Marches Won the First Barbary War

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Knights Could Still Be Found on English Battlefields in the 1640s. What Were They Doing There?

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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 5: The Destruction of the USS Philadelphia

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The Jewish Confederates

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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 4: The First Barbary War (1801-05)

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Was The Vietnam War Unwinnable?

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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 3: The Barbary States and Their 300-Year Reign of Mediterranean Piracy

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What a Modern-Day Stonemason Can Tell Us About Hand Building 13th- Century Gothic Cathedrals and Carving Gargoyles

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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 2: The British Origins of the US Navy

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The Conquest of Constantinople in 1453 Permanently Altered Siege Warfare, Middle Eastern Demographics, and Global Trade

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Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 1: America Wanted to Take 1776 to the High Seas. North African Pirates Disagreed.

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New Series Launches Tomorrow: Key Battles of the Barbary Wars (with James Early)

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How Civil War Vets Continued Living Despite Being Double, Triple, or Even Quadruple Amputees

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What’s the Difference Between a Pirate, a Privateer, and a Naval Officer? In the 1700s, Very Little

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After Genghis Khan Conquered the Earth, Kublai Khan Conquered the Seas

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Aesop’s Fables and Whether They Were Written By an Ugly, Enslaved “Barbarian” Who Discretely Mocked His Masters

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"Thermopylae, the “300” Spartans, and the 26 Other Battles Fought There Over the Last 2,400 Years

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The Last Emperor of Mexico: How a Habsburg Archduke Set Up a Kingdom in the New World in the 1860s

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First-Hand Account of Hiroshima: Before, During, and After the Atomic Bomb Drop

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America’s Professional Sports Grew From Farm Teams to Multi-Billion Dollar Franches Thanks to the Harlem Globetrotters Founder

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Why Did Presidents Seem Incredibly Rich Yet Were Completely Broke Most of the Time?

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A 1,300 History of the Middle East in Seven Religious Wars

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When Good Ideas Were Bad Medicine: Why Vitamin C and Handwashing was Rejected by the Medical Establishment

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Appleton Oaksmith: The Confederate Blockade Runner Who Became Lincoln’s Public Enemy #1

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The Bible Triggered Two Communications Revolutions: The Codex and the Printing Press

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Steering an Aerial Plywood Box Through Enemy Fire: The Glider Pilots of WW2

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Why Few Presidents Had Beards, And Only One Had a Mullet

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How Much Did Average Germans Know About the Holocaust During World War Two?

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Depression-Era Governor Huey Long Wanted to Confiscate Individual Fortunes Over $1 Million, Possibly Leading to His 1935 Assassination

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Rope Equals Fire as Humanity’s Most Important Invention: It Allowed Hunting Mammoths and Building Pyramids

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The Scopes Trial Was Entirely Orchestrated But Became an Unintended 1920s Culture War Touchpoint

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The Panda Was First Discovered By Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons During a 9-Month Expedition in Himalayan China

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How Do We Really Know What Happened in the Past When Many Historians Were Propagandists and AI is Fabricating Everything Else?

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Eugénie de Montijo: The Spanish Empress Who Built Modern Paris and is Blamed For Imperial France’s Downfall

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John Adams: The Most Influential Yet Overlooked Founding Father?

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Why Thomas More -- Henry VIII’s Hatchet Man and Heretic Hunter -- Was Himself Executed For Heresy After the English Reformation

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Don’t Look to 1903s Germany to Understand American Populism. Look to 1830s New York Revivals Instead.

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Operation Barbarossa Saw Millions of POW Executions, Civilian Murders, and Starvation Deaths

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Pistol Duels Existed Across the 19th-Century World, But Only the Chaos of the American West Produced Gunfighters

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Rome Definitively Eclipsed Greece in 197 BC By Making the Alexandrian Phalanx/Cavalry Obsolete

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Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes

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Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade?

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Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State

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MacArthur’s Plans to Drop 50 Nuclear Bombs During the Korean War

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The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today

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Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant

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Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended

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How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer

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How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship

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Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands?

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How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War

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How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader

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Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?

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From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb

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Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2

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D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944

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Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides

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Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island

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The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War

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The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve?

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A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause

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How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing

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Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages?

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How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal

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Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct

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The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them?

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Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US