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Four Decades After the Fall of Argentina’s Dictatorship, a Fight Over the Country’s Darkest Chapter Is Reopening Grievous Wounds

Four Decades After the Fall of Argentina’s Dictatorship, a Fight Over the Country’s Darkest Chapter Is Reopening Grievous Wounds
Four Decades After the Fall of Argentina’s Dictatorship, a Fight Over the Country’s Darkest Chapter Is Reopening Grievous Wounds

Four Decades After the Fall of Argentina’s Dictatorship, a Fight Over the Country’s Darkest Chapter Is Reopening Grievous Wounds

Inside the fight to memorialize victims of the military junta that ruled over the South American nation in the 1970s and '80s

Inside the fight to memorialize victims of the military junta that ruled over the South American nation in the 1970s and '80s...

Four Decades After the Fall of Argentina’s Dictatorship, a Fight Over the Country’s Darkest Chapter Is Reopening Grievous Wounds

These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery

These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery
These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery

These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire to do the same...

These Black Soldiers Fought for the British During the American Revolution in Exchange for Freedom From Slavery

How a Tale of Demonic Possession Predicted the Decline of an Early Medieval Empire

How a Tale of Demonic Possession Predicted the Decline of an Early Medieval Empire
How a Tale of Demonic Possession Predicted the Decline of an Early Medieval Empire

How a Tale of Demonic Possession Predicted the Decline of an Early Medieval Empire

A new book examines the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty, discussing how people across social classes understood the momentous history of their day

A new book examines the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty, discussing how people across social classes understood the momentous history of their day...

How a Tale of Demonic Possession Predicted the Decline of an Early Medieval Empire

How 'Blackbirders' Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

How 'Blackbirders' Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War
How 'Blackbirders' Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

How 'Blackbirders' Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured horrific working conditions

The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured...

How 'Blackbirders' Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War

When 170 Wild Monkeys Escaped From a 'Jungle Camp' and Terrorized New York

When 170 Wild Monkeys Escaped From a 'Jungle Camp' and Terrorized New York
When 170 Wild Monkeys Escaped From a 'Jungle Camp' and Terrorized New York

When 170 Wild Monkeys Escaped From a 'Jungle Camp' and Terrorized New York

In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of the same species broke out of a South Carolina research facility

In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of the same species broke out of a South Carolina rese...

When 170 Wild Monkeys Escaped From a 'Jungle Camp' and Terrorized New York

The Ten Best History Books of 2024

The Ten Best History Books of 2024
The Ten Best History Books of 2024

The Ten Best History Books of 2024

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today...

The Ten Best History Books of 2024

The Real Story Behind Apple TV+'s 'Blitz,' a New Steve McQueen Movie About Britain's Everyday World War II Heroes

The Real Story Behind Apple TV+'s 'Blitz,' a New Steve McQueen Movie About Britain's Everyday World War II Heroes
The Real Story Behind Apple TV+'s 'Blitz,' a New Steve McQueen Movie About Britain's Everyday World War II Heroes

The Real Story Behind Apple TV+'s 'Blitz,' a New Steve McQueen Movie About Britain's Everyday World War II Heroes

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial bombing campaign

Starring Saoirse Ronan as a young mother, the film celebrates Londoners' resilience in the face of an eight-month Nazi aerial bombing campaign...

The Real Story Behind Apple TV+'s 'Blitz,' a New Steve McQueen Movie About Britain's Everyday World War II Heroes

The Real History Behind Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator II' and Life as a Fighter in the Ancient Roman Arena

The Real History Behind Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator II' and Life as a Fighter in the Ancient Roman Arena
The Real History Behind Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator II' and Life as a Fighter in the Ancient Roman Arena

The Real History Behind Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator II' and Life as a Fighter in the Ancient Roman Arena

The "Gladiator" sequel centers on Lucius Verus, the secret son of Russell Crowe's character from the 2000 film. Both men achieve fame as enslaved fighters driven by their desire for revenge

The "Gladiator" sequel centers on Lucius Verus, the secret son of Russell Crowe's character from the 2000 film. Both men achieve fame as enslaved fighters driven by their desi...

The Real History Behind Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator II' and Life as a Fighter in the Ancient Roman Arena

During World War II, This Farmer Risked Everything to Help His Japanese American Neighbors

During World War II, This Farmer Risked Everything to Help His Japanese American Neighbors
During World War II, This Farmer Risked Everything to Help His Japanese American Neighbors

During World War II, This Farmer Risked Everything to Help His Japanese American Neighbors

When the U.S. government sent the Tsukamoto family to an incarceration camp in 1942, one neighbor stepped up to save the farms they left behind, giving them something to come home to

When the U.S. government sent the Tsukamoto family to an incarceration camp in 1942, one neighbor stepped up to save the farms they left behind, giving them something to come ...

During World War II, This Farmer Risked Everything to Help His Japanese American Neighbors

How Mistletoe Became a Christmas Kissing Tradition

How Mistletoe Became a Christmas Kissing Tradition
How Mistletoe Became a Christmas Kissing Tradition

How Mistletoe Became a Christmas Kissing Tradition

The thorny origins of the yuletide canoodling ritual

The thorny origins of the yuletide canoodling ritual...

How Mistletoe Became a Christmas Kissing Tradition

How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties

How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties
How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties

How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties

Under pressure from his wealthy family, real estate heir Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white

Under pressure from his wealthy family, real estate heir Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was whit...

How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties

The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America

The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America
The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America

The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America

New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World

New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World...

The Hidden History of Bermuda Is Reshaping the Way We Think About Colonial America

The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz

The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz
The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz

The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz

The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel

The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel...

The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz

How British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading the U.K.

How British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading the U.K.
How British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading the U.K.

How British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading the U.K.

To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967

To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967...

How British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading the U.K.

Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked

Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked
Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked

Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked

From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the 1950s and 1960s

From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the 1950s and 1960s...

Visions of Nuclear-Powered Cars Captivated Cold War America, but the Technology Never Really Worked

The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson,' a New Movie Based on August Wilson's Award-Winning Play

The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson,' a New Movie Based on August Wilson's Award-Winning Play
The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson,' a New Movie Based on August Wilson's Award-Winning Play

The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson,' a New Movie Based on August Wilson's Award-Winning Play

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's struggle to decide the fate of an ancestral heirloom

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's struggle to decide the fate of an ancestral heirloom...

The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson,' a New Movie Based on August Wilson's Award-Winning Play

When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History

When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History
When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History

When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial government to resign at gunpoint

The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial government to resign at gunpoint...

When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History

One of America's First Spectator Sports Was Professional Walking

One of America's First Spectator Sports Was Professional Walking
One of America's First Spectator Sports Was Professional Walking

One of America's First Spectator Sports Was Professional Walking

Before fitness influencers made getting your steps in a trend, pedestrianism had the nation on their feet

Before fitness influencers made getting your steps in a trend, pedestrianism had the nation on their feet...

One of America's First Spectator Sports Was Professional Walking

These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote

These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote
These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote

These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to fight for equality and freedom

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to fight for equality and freedom...

These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote

To Divine the Future, the Ancients Relied on These Chance-Based Fortune-Telling Tools

To Divine the Future, the Ancients Relied on These Chance-Based Fortune-Telling Tools
To Divine the Future, the Ancients Relied on These Chance-Based Fortune-Telling Tools

To Divine the Future, the Ancients Relied on These Chance-Based Fortune-Telling Tools

Texts like the "Sortes Astrampsychi" promised insights on clients' love lives, career prospects, financial woes and families

Texts like the "Sortes Astrampsychi" promised insights on clients' love lives, career prospects, financial woes and families...

To Divine the Future, the Ancients Relied on These Chance-Based Fortune-Telling Tools

This 19th-Century 'Toy Book' Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion

This 19th-Century 'Toy Book' Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion
This 19th-Century 'Toy Book' Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion

This 19th-Century 'Toy Book' Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion

"Spectropia" demystified the techniques used by mediums who claimed they could speak to the dead, revealing the "absurd follies of Spiritualism"

"Spectropia" demystified the techniques used by mediums who claimed they could speak to the dead, revealing the "absurd follies of Spiritualism"...

This 19th-Century 'Toy Book' Used Science to Prove That Ghosts Were Simply an Illusion

Discover the Mysteries of Italy's Park of Monsters, a 16th-Century Garden Filled With Strange, Colossal Stone Creatures

Discover the Mysteries of Italy's Park of Monsters, a 16th-Century Garden Filled With Strange, Colossal Stone Creatures
Discover the Mysteries of Italy's Park of Monsters, a 16th-Century Garden Filled With Strange, Colossal Stone Creatures

Discover the Mysteries of Italy's Park of Monsters, a 16th-Century Garden Filled With Strange, Colossal Stone Creatures

The Sacro Bosco's meaning is the subject of debate, with scholars alternatively describing the sprawling complex as a memorial, an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civilizations

The Sacro Bosco's meaning is the subject of debate, with scholars alternatively describing the sprawling complex as a memorial, an allegorical site or a tribute to ancient civ...

Discover the Mysteries of Italy's Park of Monsters, a 16th-Century Garden Filled With Strange, Colossal Stone Creatures

When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life

When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life
When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life

When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life

After he was forced off the German stage in 1934 by antisemitic hecklers, Leo Reuss found a daring way to hide in plain sight

After he was forced off the German stage in 1934 by antisemitic hecklers, Leo Reuss found a daring way to hide in plain sight...

When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role of His Life

These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women's Stories in Their Own Words

These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women's Stories in Their Own Words
These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women's Stories in Their Own Words

These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women's Stories in Their Own Words

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen

A new exhibition at the British Library explores the public, private and spiritual lives of such figures as Joan of Arc, Christine de Pizan and Hildegard of Bingen...

These Rare Artifacts Tell Medieval Women's Stories in Their Own Words

The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold Rush

The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold Rush
The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold Rush

The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold Rush

With flinty perseverance and a golden touch, Belinda Mulrooney earned an unlikely fortune in the frozen north and reshaped the Canadian frontier

With flinty perseverance and a golden touch, Belinda Mulrooney earned an unlikely fortune in the frozen north and reshaped the Canadian frontier...

The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold Rush

How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain

How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain
How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain

How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain

When the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village at Blue Water, dozens of plundered artifacts ended up in the Smithsonian. The unraveling of this long-buried atrocity is forging a path toward reconciliation

When the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village at Blue Water, dozens of plundered artifacts ended up in the Smithsonian. The unraveling of this long-buried atrocity is forging ...

How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain

Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art

Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art
Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art

Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art

During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into powerful propaganda

During and after the Civil War, inventive illustrations allowed Democrats and Republicans to turn American ballots into powerful propaganda...

Back in the 19th Century, Your Election Ballot Could Double as a Work of Art

How a Dead Seal Sparked Theodore Roosevelt's Lifelong Passion for Conservation

How a Dead Seal Sparked Theodore Roosevelt's Lifelong Passion for Conservation
How a Dead Seal Sparked Theodore Roosevelt's Lifelong Passion for Conservation

How a Dead Seal Sparked Theodore Roosevelt's Lifelong Passion for Conservation

As a child, the future president acquired a marine animal's skull, which became the first specimen in his natural history collection

As a child, the future president acquired a marine animal's skull, which became the first specimen in his natural history collection...

How a Dead Seal Sparked Theodore Roosevelt's Lifelong Passion for Conservation
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