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Jul 4

Grey concrete statue of Moses holding the tablets of the Ten Commandments, from a door at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments are back in the news. Nearly twenty years ago, they made headlines…

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Jun 19

Harriet Tubman and the Second South Carolina Volunteers Bring Freedom to the Combahee River

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Sep 8, 2023

A Sheaf of Papers and the Unsolved Murder of a Rising Academic

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Sep 8, 2023

Detectives Say: The Development of Handwriting Analysis and Expert Deduction

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Sep 7, 2023

American Flight 119 St. Louis to Tulsa

D.B. Cooper’s exploit over the skies of the American Northwest has inspired books, films…

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Jun 3, 2023

A close up of a 100 US dollar bill to illustrate an excerpt from “Capitalist Peace: A History of American Free-Trade Internationalism” written by Thomas W. Zeiler, published by Oxford University Press

Capitalist Peace and Depression, 1930–1935

Surprisingly, exports and imports, tariffs and quotas, and trade deficits and…

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Jun 29, 2022

Before the Raid

The Greatest Raid provides a gripping and authoritative narrative of a daring military…

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Apr 22, 2022

Sources of Sustainability in the Early Modern World

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Jun 9, 2021

Back Lane Football

In this extract, Robert Colls explains sport as an embodiment of modern England, a…

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Jun 4, 2021

The Chinese Board Game That Transformed American Culture