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‘The Gilded Age’ and the Great Midwest Wildfires of 1871

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Is Vikings: Valhalla Based on a True Story?

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Somehow All of These Things Happened in 2021, the Longest Year on Human Record

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Meet the Recently Announced 2021 National Book Award Winners & Runners-Up

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What Topic Could You Give a TED Talk On With Zero Preparation?

By Apr 22nd
Why Do We Even Have April Fools’ Day?

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New Fossil Discovery Changes What We Know About the Mighty Titanosaurs

By Mar 3rd
Let’s Talk About the Ancient Precursor To Valentine’s Day: Lupercalia!

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Trump Administration’s “1776 Report” Is White Supremacist Propaganda Meant To Be Taught in Schools

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We Didn’t Start The Fire: This Transgender Awareness Week, Meet Michael Dillon

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Where’s My TV Show About La Maupin, the Bisexual Fencing Opera Singer?

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With 60,000 Dead the Witch Trials in Europe Were No F*king Joke

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The Weird, Winding History of the Witch Hat

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JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Lost Letters Are Full of Gay Longing

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The Secrets (and Sex Toys?!) Behind How Witches “Flew”

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Where Is My Epic Series on Empress Matilda, the First Woman To Claim the English Crown?

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