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The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power
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Here an old piece of "rocket" ephemera. Back when there were these big black round things called "records," there were children's record-readers. My mom had some of these from here childhood so I actually read some of them. You would put a stack of records on (this one had 4...
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Delian League vs Persian Empire: The Greeks on the Offensive
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Saul Leiter In Colour And Before – Photographs from A Centenary Special
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Cold Snapshots – Vintage Holiday Fun in the Snow and Ice
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The Search for the Historical Buddha
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The Spellbinding Corrupted Photos On An Artist’s Stolen Laptop
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The Holodomor, Ukraine’s Great Famine
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The Mother Goddess of Rome
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One, Two (1965)
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The next few posts are some of my favorite picture books. The 1st from 1965 is a very basic counting book about spaceflight. I hope that you find it as charming as I do.
DeCaprio, Annie and David Krieger. Illustrated by Nydorf, Seymour. One, Two. New York: Wonder Books. (24 p.)...
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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: Meet the “Real” Kingmaker
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Edward VIII: The Worst Monarch in British History?
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What Is George Orwell Best Known For?
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The Cold War & the Rise of Superpowers: US Elections in a Divided World (1945-91)
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The Death of Clive of India
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
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How Mexico Fought Franco
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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Waiting For A Miracle: Kiev in 1998
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6 of the Largest Cities in the Modern World
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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Bob Pepper Art: Adult Fantasy And Vinyl Covers
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Why Did Bruno Latour Claim that “We Have Never Been Modern”?
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Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
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The Origins of the Republican Party: A Comprehensive Guide
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‘Massacre in the Clouds’ by Kim A. Wagner review
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The Boston Years: On The Streets 1972-75
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Why Is Canadian Thanksgiving on the Second Monday of October?
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It’s understandable that many people feel exhausted at the...
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Symbolism and Identity in Northern Renaissance Portraiture
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What Does it Mean to Break the Fourth Wall?
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6 of Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories You Need to Read
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Salford in 1977: People Of Langworthy, Ordsall and the Adelphi
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‘Bluestockings’ by Susannah Gibson review
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What Makes Good Historical Fiction?
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Found Photos: Mid-Century Soviets Standing By Their TVs
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What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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The Full English Breakfast: History of a British Tradition
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that...
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I think often about the non-immediate future, and wonder how to best allocate effort to make that future better. And the first steps in this process are often to identify interesting classes of scenarios, and then estimate their desirability, chances, and ease of influence.
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How Did Aristotle Define Happiness & Good Life?
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Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
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A Rediscovered Guercino Painting on View in Paris
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Banksy Mural to Be Sold with the Building It’s Painted On
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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Where Was Ancient Greece Located?
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The Art of Collage and Assemblage in Modern Art
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What Is Ockham’s Razor?
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When Did the Soviet Union Declare War on Japan?
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Here Are Alfred Hitchcock’s 20 Greatest Films
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US President or American Caesar?
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Who Is the Father of Pentecostalism?
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African History...
on the Nubian priests of Rome and the Moors of Spain
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The Dallas Art Fair Decides on 2024 Exhibitions
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Did Spirituality Shape the Art of Ana Mendieta?
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15 Facts About Genghis Khan & His Legacy
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Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973: Laying It Bare On The Lower East Side
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks
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1980s Birmingham – Portraits of A City Under Thee Cosh
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“The City Centre is unrecognisable from the 1980s. Everything is glass. Birmingham doesn’t feel like home anymore.” – Richard Davis We’re back looking at 1980s Britain’s through Richard Davis’s photographs. This time we join him in Birmingham, the country’s ‘shabby not chic‘...
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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How Did Our Lady of Guadalupe Become Mexico’s Patroness?
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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What Is the Book of Galatians About?
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7 Key Beliefs and Practices From Hasidic Judaism
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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What Was Procopius’ “Secret History”? (& Why You Shouldn’t Trust It)
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British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
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That's a good question.
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Who Was Marcus Licinius Crassus, and How Did He Die?
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Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
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The Theory of Self-Image: The Concept of the Looking-Glass Self
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part Ib: Subjects of the Successors
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This is the second part of the first part of our four part look at the context between the Hellenistic army and its Macedonian phalanx and the Romans with their legions. Last week, we looked at the weapons, organization and fighting style of the Macedonian phalanx, the infantry...
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15 Surprising Facts about Adolf Hitler, The World’s Most Hated Man
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Harry Houdini’s Death: Was It Really by Sucker Punch?
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What Was the Golden Ratio & Did the Greeks Actually Use It?
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When Did the Anglo-Saxon Invasion of Britain Really Begin?
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.
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You don't need to know that.
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Frick Pittsburgh Postpones Islamic Art Exhibition
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Trying to Understand...
A Short Service Announcement.
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be...
a year ago
From this week, and on an experimental basis, I’m enabling paid subscriptions for those who may be interested. The essays themselves will continue to be entirely free, and I don’t have plans to produce subscriber-only material. I’ve also set up a Buy Me a Coffee cup.
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Somerset
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Quetzalcoatl: The Feathered Serpent’s Myth & History
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When Did the Korean War Start?
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History Today Feed
‘In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl’ by Merilee Grindle review
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Tue, 01/02/2024 - 09:08
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TheCollector
The Indigenous Architecture of the Cosmos in the Amazon
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5 Women in Philosophy of Mind You Should Know
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The Wreck of the Vrouw Maria
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
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Wed, 10/09/2024 - 08:31
TheCollector
6 Artworks by the Controversial Andres Serrano
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What’s the Historical Background of Tristan and Isolde’s Legend?
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The Value of Wills to Historians
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
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Wed, 04/10/2024 - 11:01
Hundred Rabbits
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Neanderthal Nonsense: Debunking Myths About Our Ancient Cousins
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes
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SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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Was Spinoza an Atheist? The Theological-Political Treatise
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Dreams of Space -...
Beyond Mars (1960)
Here is the last book in the "space quartet", Beyond Mars. It takes a large survey of the next steps...
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The Mennour Institute Launched at Paris’s Mennour Gallery
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Italian Artist Unveils Contemporary Version of Stolen Caravaggio
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Putting Pirates on Trial
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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Classical Wisdom
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The FBI Repatriates Looted Japan Artifacts
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Art for Change: A Brief History of Protest Art
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Street Art Murals in Los Angeles: 7 Iconic Works and Their Artists
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Vyacheslav Molotov: 6 Facts about Stalin’s Closest Confidant
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Who Were Queen Victoria’s Children?
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9 Historical Places to Visit in Dorset
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Italian Government Bans Loans to Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Wrong Side of...
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When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election?
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African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to...
The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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What Did the Art of the Third Reich Look Like?
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Amerigo Vespucci & The Naming of the Americas
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René Girard on Sacrifice & Violence: Why Does Scapegoating Happen?
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Dürer Print Found in a Dump Could Fetch $26,000
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, Nature, & the Birth of Transcendentalism
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History Today Feed
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
a year ago
‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
j.hoare
Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
Trying to Understand...
Round Two? There Is No Round Two.
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
a year ago
Game pretty much over in Ukraine.
TheCollector
May’s Marquee Art Auctions Kick Off in New York
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What Happened to the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World?
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Adolf Hitler in WWII: The Last 6 Years of His Life
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What are Aristophanes’ 11 Surviving Comedies?
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Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty
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Understanding Modern Art in 5 Artworks
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‘Judgement at Tokyo’ by Gary J. Bass review
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Mon, 01/22/2024 - 11:07
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Was George Washington Nearly Killed During the American Revolution?
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Art Basel Renames and Relocates Third Edition of Paris Show
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The Renaissance Women of Italy: 10 Extraordinary Artists
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How Often Are U.S. Presidential Elections Held?
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Can Art Be Harmful? Art and Image from Plato to Modernity
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The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle?
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9 Fascinating Facts About the Eastern Front in WWII
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Rijksmuseum Discovers Identity of Couple Painted by Frans Hals
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6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism
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How Did Babylon Shape the History of the Ancient Near East?
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What Is the History of Swedish Colonialism?
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History Today Feed
The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Fri, 11/22/2024 - 09:30
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom.
government in central Africa.
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government in central Africa.
TheCollector
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Restitutes Matisse Painting
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Who Was Vivienne Westwood?
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The US Museum Directors Salary Data
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Classical Wisdom
Are Propaganda and Politics Inevitable Bedfellows?
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And Does Democracy Make It Worse?
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Andrew Jackson’s Early Life: Lawyer, Slave Trader, & Military Hero
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
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Monsters, Morpheus, and The Matrix
TheCollector
4 Ways that Magical Realism Rewrites History
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
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A Guide to Madrid for Art Enthusiasts (10 Things to Do)
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African History...
State and society in southern Ethiopia: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma (ca. 1830-1932)
Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its...
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Modern Ethiopia is a diverse country comprised of many communities and languages, each with its history and contribution to the country's cultural heritage. While Ethiopian historiography is often focused on the historical developments in the northern regions of the country, some...
Classical Wisdom
Why Was Hannibal Defeated? And What If He Had Won?
The Silence of the Elephants
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The Silence of the Elephants
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Who Is the Father of the Beat Generation?
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What’s the Best Time to Visit Table Mountain?
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What Makes the City of London Unique?
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Dr Alun Withey
Health and the Habitual Traveller in the 19th Century
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’...
over a year ago
Recently I’ve been contributing to a new series of stories, drawing on the archives of Lloyds’ Register – a fantastic archive, with a wealth of sources on many aspects of maritime, but also broader social, history. The full series can be found here:...
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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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The Social War (91-87 BCE): Rome vs Italy
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What Is a Pyrrhic Victory? The Tragic Story Behind the Phrase
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Federal Art Project: Documentary Film Exploring the Arts of the WPA
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What Are the Origins of Santa Claus?
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