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Caroline Delbert
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The Awl
Jul 7, 2017
What Are We Looking For In Amelia Earhart?
Behind the myth making and heroine worship.
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Rebecca Rego Barry
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Jun 30, 2017
Odd Lots: Curious Objects Up At Auction
Queen Victoria’s crotch-less undies, Einstein’s pipe, and a…
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Vincent Bevins
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Jun 1, 2017
All Spicy Food Is From Latin America
Deep globalization is real.
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Jacob Mikanowski
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May 30, 2017
The Emperor Of Air
How a 19th-century French lawyer crowned himself a Patagonian king.
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Silvia Killingsworth
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May 23, 2017
Speech Good
New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu’s address on the now-removed Confederate monuments
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Rebecca Rego Barry
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May 11, 2017
Open Up and Say AAH!
Dentistry is vile
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Rebecca Rego Barry
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May 1, 2017
Odd Lots: Curious Objects Up At Auction
A vial of poison, a top hat spittoon, and the art collection…
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Daniel Crown
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Apr 28, 2017
Incorrigible Sin
The story of a seventeenth-century fornication trial in Massachusetts Bay
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Harry Merritt
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Mar 30, 2017
The Hero And The Crocodile
Flawed historical figures and who can claim them.
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Tori Telfer
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Mar 28, 2017
Old-School Show-Off:
Catalina de Erauso, the Swashbuckling Nun
Forgotten memoirs by rakish individuals
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