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admin wrote a new post, What We Know About Vikings and Slaves 6 hours, 28 minutes ago
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By Sarah Pruitt !– tml-version=”2″ –More than a thousand years after the Viking Age drew to a close, there’s still a lot we don’t know about these seafaring Norse warriors, who explored territory from the […] -
admin wrote a new post, The Treaty of Versailles Punished Defeated Germany With These Provisions 8 hours, 17 minutes ago
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By Patrick J. Kiger Some disarmed the German military, while others stripped the defeated nation of territory, population and economic resources, and forced it to admit responsibility for the war and agree to […] -
admin wrote a new post, How Dressing in Drag Was Labeled a Crime in the 20th Century 12 hours, 27 minutes ago
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By Hugh Ryan In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, police arrested LGBTQ people based on an informal “three-article” rule. The Stonewall Riots helped turn the tide against these arrests.!– tml-version=”2″ –Rusty Brown […] -
admin wrote a new post, Was Abraham Lincoln an Atheist? 1 day, 6 hours ago
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By Becky Little !– tml-version=”2″ –Every U.S. president has been a member of a church, except for one: Abraham Lincoln. Famously opaque on the subject of religion, Lincoln’s personal faith was something even […] -
admin wrote a new post, Apollo 11 Moon Landing Timeline: From Liftoff to Splashdown 1 day, 7 hours ago
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By Dave Roos Neil Armstrong’s celebrated “one small step” was far from the most dangerous maneuver in the effort to send three men to the moon and return them home a week later. See a timeline of the entire […] -
admin wrote a new post, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” is published 1 day, 8 hours ago
By History.com Editors !– tml-version=”2″ –Henry David Thoreau’s classic Walden, or, A Life in the Woods is required reading in many classrooms today. But when it was first published—on this day in 1854—it […]
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admin wrote a new post, Rebels strike Union at the Battle of Mechanicsville 1 day, 9 hours ago
By History.com Editors !– tml-version=”2″ –At the Battle of Mechanicsville, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia strikes Union General George B. McClellan’s Army of the […]
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admin wrote a new post, The 1970s Cruise Ship Nightmare That Ended in a Mutiny 1 day, 11 hours ago
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By Robert Klara !– tml-version=”2″ –It was a little after 3:00 a.m. on July 2, 1978 when those aboard the S.S. America realized the voyage was doomed.Things had gotten off to an uneasy start nine hours before, […] -
admin wrote a new post, Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez Plan to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates Will Backfire on Consumers 1 day, 14 hours ago
By Todd Zywicki Todd Zywicki
Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
recently introduced their first joint piece of legislation —
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admin wrote a new post, 'Erectile Pricing': Why Viagra's Cost Defies the Laws of Economics 2 days, 13 hours ago
By Charles Silver, David A. Hyman Charles Silver and David A. Hyman
Among economists, it is an article of faith that competition
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admin wrote a new post, Wrong: Trump Is Not an Isolationist 2 days, 14 hours ago
By Ted Galen Carpenter Ted Galen Carpenter
An increasingly popular accusation among members of the U.S.
foreign-policy establishment and their allies in the news media is
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admin wrote a new post, Why Have There Been So Many UFO Sightings Near Nuclear Facilities? 4 days, 6 hours ago
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By Adam Janos It started in the 1940s, near A-bomb development sites. More recently, something has been stalking nuclear carrier strike groups.!– tml-version=”2″ –Why are so many UFOs being reported near […] -
admin wrote a new post, How the GI Bill's Promise Was Denied to a Million Black Veterans 4 days, 6 hours ago
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By Erin Blakemore !– tml-version=”2″ –When Eugene Burnett saw the neat tract houses of Levittown, New York, he knew he wanted to buy one. It was 1949, and he was ready to settle down in a larger home with his […] -
admin wrote a new post, These Historic Strongmen Could Bend a Frying Pan and Lift an Elephant 4 days, 6 hours ago
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By Robert Kahn Some of their feats of strength have yet to be surpassed.!– tml-version=”2″ –History’s human powerhouses were mammoths of muscle who could tow a ship with only their teeth or roll up a frying […] -
admin wrote a new post, Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the World Chess Championship 4 days, 11 hours ago
By History.com Staff !– tml-version=”2″ –On this day in 1972, in what’s billed as the “Match of the Century,” American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky during the World Chess […]
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admin wrote a new post, Anne Frank writes her last diary entry 4 days, 12 hours ago
By History.com Editors !– tml-version=”2″ –Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl hiding out in Nazi-occupied Holland whose diary came to serve as a symbol of the Holocaust, writes her final entry three days before […]
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admin wrote a new post, The Supreme Court's Reasoning in the Bladensburg Cross Case Is a Mess 4 days, 13 hours ago
By Ilya Shapiro Ilya Shapiro
Thursday morning, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in American
Legion v. American Humanist Association that a 100-year-old
World War I memorial cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, […] -
admin wrote a new post, Why a U.S.-Iran War Could End up Being a Historic Disaster 4 days, 14 hours ago
By Doug Bandow Doug Bandow
Sixteen years ago, the George W. Bush administration manipulated
intelligence to scare the public into backing an aggressive war
against Iraq. The smoking gun mushroom clouds that […] -
admin wrote a new post, Facebook's Libra Is Part of a Welcome Trend 4 days, 14 hours ago
By Diego Zuluaga Diego Zuluaga
It’s not entirely surprising that, so far in the short
public life of Libra, the Facebook-led cryptocurrency project
launched this week, the discussion has focused on […] -
admin wrote a new post, Brigham Young chosen to lead Mormon Church 5 days, 7 hours ago
By History.com Editors !– tml-version=”2″ –After Joseph Smith, the founder and prophet of Mormonism, and his brother, Hyrum, were murdered by an angry mob in an Illinois prison six weeks earlier, Elder Brigham […]
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