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Uncovering Stories in Small Archives
by Kathleen Sheppard
Mary Charlton Jonas (1874-1950) returned to her work at the…
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Inside a Prison Cell with Sheikh Ahmed Ashoush
WCAG Headingby Shadi Hamid What does it look like to come of age in the Muslim…
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Inside Egypt’s Rock-Cut Tomb Chapels
WCAG Headingby John Romer For the majority of Westerners, the grand tour of Egypt had started…
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Boomtown
by Joe Pappalardo
After the Civil War, many American families moved west seeking new lives, heavily…
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The Hopes of the Future
by Alexander Larman
by Alexandar Larman Princess Elizabeth II was in Kenya with her husband, Prince Philip, for just…
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Five New History Reads for April 2026
From fighting the British in colonial America to the corrupt wild west to the controversial old…
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The Search for the Madness Pill
by Justin Garson
In the 1960s, the field of psychiatry was at a standstill. While some…
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Winning the Earthquake
by Lorissa Rinehart
“Few members of Congress have ever stood more alone while being true to…
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The Feather Wars
by James H. McCommons
From the time the United States was founded, early Americans assumed that…
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Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbrück
by Gwen Strauss
From the moment they met in 1940 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena…
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Once There Was a Town
by Jane Ziegelman
Described as an "animated tapestry" by The Wall Street Journal, Jane Ziegelman's Once…
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