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Carbon dating allows us to know exactly when ice was melted for drinking water in pre-Columbian America.
The pieces don’t represent an army, they stand in for the Western social order.
A new study shows that at least one long-ago journey would have required deliberate navigation.
Apple sold its first iPod in 2001, and six years later it introduced the iPhone, which ushered in a new era of personal technology.
The rites we give to the dead help us understand what it takes to go on living.
The unfamiliar landscape of America’s medical past is marked by bizarre incidents, forgotten breakthroughs and selfless sacrifice.
In “The Immortality Key,” Brian Muraresku speculates that the Eucharist could have once been more colorful.
The bubonic plague ravaged the world for centuries, killing up to 200 million people.
Christmas was banned in 1647 and rebellions broke out across the country.
It was a concept borrowed from the Iroquois, and one that America never quite mastered.
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Recent American presidents have all faced a crisis of legitimacy in a trend that threatens the health of our democracy.
‘Critical Tourist Map of Oslo’ offers uniquely dark perspective on Norway’s capital.
To war is human – and Neanderthals were very like us.
A new study tracks the human-dog relationship through DNA.
Monopolies wield an immense amount of economic and political power and influence. So what can we do to make the economy more equitable?
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The negative associations of introversion help to explain why loneliness now carries such social stigma.
How can we learn from the lessons of the past and build a better future?
Why not just divide the United States in slices of equal population?
She was walking down the forest path with a roll of white cloth in her hands. It was trailing behind her like a long veil. It was sweeping needles, leaves […]
Nazi supporters held huge rallies and summer camps for kids throughout the United States in the 1930s.
Rare structures and artifacts of the Viking religion practiced centuries prior to Christianity’s introduction have been uncovered by archaeologists in Norway, including a “god house.”
Researchers found a common element in the destruction of even the most powerful empires.
Scientists have identified the largest ever assemblage of mammoth bones.
Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman explains why America has never achieved true democracy—and how it can.
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It’s hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.
Confirmation bias is baked into the DNA of America, but it may soon be the nation’s undoing.
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In fact, the maximum human lifespan has barely changed since we arrived.
Alexandre Dumas’ famous anecdote about Fake News in the 1800s has a surprising twist.
How Nobel Prize winner physicist Lev Landau ranked the best physics minds of his generation.
They came from different places and with different ideas, which still resonate today.