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Sep 5, 2025
Also called the Agricultural Revolution, the Neolithic Revolution shifted hunter-gathers to agriculture—changing humanity forever.
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Aug 22, 2025
The real-life British secret agency behind Operation Postmaster helped launch James Bond and end World War II.
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Aug 20, 2025
Taylor Swift is just the latest artist to be enchanted by the iconic entertainers, with their glittering costumes and racy moves.
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Aug 8, 2025
Here’s why medieval Europeans believed medical cannibalism was a cure-all.
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Aug 6, 2025
How Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party turned anti-Semitism into the Holocaust that killed six million Jews from 1933 to 1945.
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Jul 23, 2025
It was seen as a way for heiresses to raise their social status.
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Jul 4, 2025
Here’s why some historians argue she was Britain’s first Black queen—and what we know for sure about her life with King George III.
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Jul 2, 2025
As an actress, she was known as the “most beautiful woman in the world” during the 1940s. Lamarr was also a technological genius whose inventions helped support the Allies during...
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Jun 25, 2025
In 1925, a small-town trial became a national spectacle, pitting faith against science. Here's what to know about the lasting legacy of the Scopes 'Monkey' Trial.
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Apr 2, 2025
The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary War.
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Mar 10, 2025
Frustrations over the exclusion of women from America’s national narrative boiled over in the 1970s—leading to the creation of Women’s History Month.
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Feb 7, 2025
The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.
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Jan 24, 2025
Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the U.S. government came to a violent head in the 1850s.
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Jan 22, 2025
First proposed nearly a century back and approved by Congress 50 years ago, does the beleaguered constitutional amendment have another chance?