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  • Pre-Viking tunic found by glacier as warming aids archaeology
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  • Stone Ships Show Signs of Maritime Network in Baltic Sea Region 3,000 Years Ago
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  • 2,400-Year-Old Myths of Mummy-Making Busted
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  • The President, in Israel, Giveth and Taketh Away
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  • Spar Torpedo Reveals New Info
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  • Britain's Costly Iraq Blunder
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  • Lockheed Martin at the Trough
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  • Mary L. Dudziak: Obama’s Nixonian Precedent
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  • Dreams of saving Art Deco Havana
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  • John Dillinger’s terraplane revisits his childhood home
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  • Obama to Name New National Monuments
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  • The era of deep archiving begins
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  • Emily Schmall: How the Catholic Church Lost Argentina
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  • If Not for Muammar Gaddafi, This Guy Might Have Been Pope
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  • Gordon N. Bardos: Marxists in the State Department
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  • TGIF: Bastiat and the Socialization of Wealth
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  • HNN Hot Topics: Pope Francis
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  • Obama visits Yad Vashem
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  • HNN Hot Topics: The Iraq War Ten Years Later
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  • On Other Websites: Week of March 18, 2013
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  • I Need Police Protection
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  • Jim Cullen: Review of Mohsin Hamid's "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia" (Riverhead, 2013)
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  • Richard Canedo: Review of Diane Brady’s “Fraternity” (Spiegel and Grau, 2012)
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  • Rajiv Srinivasan: Iraq War Legacy -- Are Today’s Vets Better Off?
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  • Stephen M. Walt: The Dearth of Strategy on Syria
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  • London's gin palaces, past and present
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  • Priest 'not denounced' by pope
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  • German anglers call Cold War truce
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  • Glossop battles over fate of town's historic gothic hall and new library
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  • Khadija Patel: The Unexamined Massacre of the Marikana Miners
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  • Tristram Hunt: Review of Gillian Shephard's "The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher"
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  • Is the retired pope still infallible?
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  • Richard J. Evans: Review of Eric Hobsbawm's "Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century"
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  • Fouad Ajami: Ten Years Ago, an Honorable War Began With Wide Support
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  • Belgian train museum has hard time getting on track
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  • Roy Scranton: Why Fiction Tells the Truth About War
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  • KKK to protest park renaming
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  • At Penn Station, seizing a chance to right a wrong
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  • Erwin Harris, ad executive who seized Cuban assets, dies at 91
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  • 10 years later, an anniversary many Iraqis would prefer to ignore
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  • John R. Nagl: What America Learned in Iraq
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  • Best-selling Russian writer turns from crime to history
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  • Team on the way to collect Congo war crimes suspect
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  • Berlin Won’t Join Effort to Ban Far-Right Party
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  • Nixon mocked Democrats for calling Jerusalem Israel’s capital; now both parties agree on that
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  • Anne Applebaum: South Africa’s Unfinished Revolution
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  • After 70 years, sword given to soldier during WWII goes to Hungarian Embassy
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  • Frank Bures: A Travelogue through Cold War Nuclear Installations
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  • Slum Priests: Pope Francis's Early Years
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  • James Joyner: Washington's Losing Streak
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  • Chauncey DeVega: No, Jesus Wasn't White
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  • Roy Bourgeois: My Prayer -- Let Women Be Priests
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  • Mehdi Hasan: Anti-Semitism Rampant Amongst British Muslim
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  • What HNN is Reading Today
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  • Holly Case: Review of Taner Akcam's "The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity"
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  • Greg Mitchell: When Chris Hedges, 10 Years Ago, Warned About Coverage of the Iraq Invasion
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  • Ben Yagoda: Fact Checking “In Cold Blood”
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  • Michael Lind: Private Sector Parasites
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  • Hacker releases paintings by GWB
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  • Victor Davis Hanson: America’s Big Fat Advantage
  • Conrad Black: Pope Francis, Say Yes to the Pill
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  • Michael Bowen: GOP "Autopsy" Reads Like It Was Written By Thomas Dewey
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  • David Ignatius: The Painful Lessons of Iraq
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  • Assessing Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In”
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  • Skulls of early humans carry telltale signs of inbreeding
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  • Middle Eastern martime traditions explored in Exeter University's dhow exhibition
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  • Cirencester Roman cockerel 'best find' in 40 years
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  • Afghanistan moves to salvage ancient Buddhist city
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  • Gate to the Underworld found in ancient Hieropolis
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  • Syria's ancient Palmyra on brink of destruction
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  • Dig aims to save Native American burial mounds
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  • Crete wants Minoans on UNESCO list
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  • Main street revealed in agora of Smyrna
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  • Researchers publish Neanderthal genome
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  • Excavations at ancient Greek mines of Pangeon
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  • 2/5ths of Austrians: Hitler not all bad
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  • Home towns struggle with legacy of Stalin and Hitler
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  • Maryland Breaks Ground on Tubman State Park;Governor Names Salazar Admiral
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  • Denying Islam's Role in Terror: Explaining the Denial
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  • The Iraq War: Learning Lessons, Ignoring History
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  • 350th anniversary of the Carolina Charter of 1663 to be observed
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  • A Pope of Firsts, But Will Francis Actually Change the Vatican?
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  • Pre-quake Christchurch being forgotten, says historian
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  • Cathy Young: A Troubling After-Image of Stalin, 60 Years After His Death
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  • James Jay Carafano: History and the Blame Game Ten Years After Iraq
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  • U.S. historians shed light on young slave’s 1860 escape to Vancouver Island
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  • ‘It’s Not Your Homeland’: An Interview With Shlomo Sand
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  • First English-language biography of Pope Francis by Church historian Matthew Bunson
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  • Historian and economist Gar Alperovitz on the possibilities of the Great Recession
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  • Timothy Snyder named as Philippe Roman Chair at LSE
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  • Interview: British Historian Timothy Garton Ash On Europe's Future
  • Smithsonian skeptical over CT first flight claims
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  • Rebutting David Greenberg's Broadside on Howard Zinn
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  • Get the Name Right
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  • The Story of a Rape in Wartime
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  • Victor Davis Hanson: Who Will Bell America?
  • Mario Loyola: Lessons of the Anschluss
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  • America stopped worrying, loves the Bomb
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  • David Woolner: FDR -- Minimum Wage Critics "Hopelessly Reactionary"
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  • Will Wikipedia replace the academic thesis?
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  • BBC gets heat for censoring Elvis Costello’s 1979 hit “Oliver’s Army”
  • Archaeological Dig Unearths Slave History at Georgetown Estate
  • FBI: We know who carried out greatest art heist in American history
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  • Producer: Claim of Obama-Satan likeness nonsense
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  • North Korea as “Bad Guy”: A Multi-layered Myth
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  • Ten Years of "Police Advisors" in Iraq
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  • Slaves’ forgotten burial sites, marked online
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  • A.B.C. ‘Cal’ Whipple, who helped get groundbreaking WWII photo published, dies in Connecticut
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  • U.S. war costs last for more than a century, monthly payments to Civil War vet families
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  • Smithsonian’s American history museum begins creating archive on US farming, innovation
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  • Interpretive center opens for Kelly's Ford anniversary
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  • Jonathan Zimmerman: What’s Not Being Taught About the Iraq War
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  • F.B.I. Says It Has Clues in ’90 Boston Art Heist
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  • Why does the pope change his name?
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  • Roman artefact discovered in Sudeley Castle cupboard
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  • Edwin Ramsey dies at 95; WWII Army cavalry officer in Philippines
  • Khmer Rouge co-founder dies
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  • Backers of American Latino national museum push bill in Congress
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  • One of world's oldest sun dials discovered in Egypt
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  • Mary O'Grady: Behind the Campaign to Smear the Pope
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  • History channel denies Satan in ‘The Bible’ series cast to resemble Obama
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  • Eric Boehlert: Could Twitter Have Prevented the Iraq War?
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  • CPAC attendee: "Why can’t we just have segregation?"
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  • Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”?
  • Capturing the stories of Hurricane Sandy's survivors
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  • Rashid Khalidi: Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace?
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  • Richard V. Reeves: Shame Is Not a Four-Letter Word
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  • Laurie Edwards: The Gender Gap in Pain
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  • Ian M. Ross, a President at Bell Labs, Dies at 85
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  • The Cossacks Are Back. May the Hills Tremble.
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  • Paul Butler: Gideon's Muted Trumpet
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  • Saving Schools and Libraries by Giving Up the Land They Sit On
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  • Robert Elias: A Lost Hero of the Civil Rights Era
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  • Latvia commemorates Waffen-SS
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  • Lenard R. Berlanstein, U-Va. history professor, dies at 65
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  • Convicted terrorist set to be released from prison in 1982 airline attack that killed teen
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  • GM-potatoes criticized in Ireland
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  • Fan whose 1949 shooting of ballplayer inspired “The Natural” dies after years in obscurity
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  • North Korea as “Bad Guy”: A Multi-Layered Myth
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  • Saddam’s specter lives on in Iraqi landmarks
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  • Saddam’s specter lives on in Iraqi landmarks
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  • Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite: The Iraq War -- How Our Nation Lost Its Soul
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  • Books on fishing, wartime conduct win Bancroft Prize for history
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  • Paul Krugman: Marches of Folly
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  • Week of March 25, 2013
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  • Pete Seeger: "That Was the First Time I Met Reverend King..."
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  • Gay Marriage, DOMA And The Dramatic Shift In Public Opinion In One Year
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  • Iraq: The spies who fooled the world
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  • David Priestland: The Sun Sets on the Modern Merchant Class
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  • Carlin Romano: Reason, Emotion, and Hitler
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  • Jim Cullen: Review of John Burt's "Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism: Lincoln, Douglas, and Moral Conflict" (Harvard, 2013)
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  • Ancient Buddhist site discovered in SE India
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  • Middle Pleistocene teeth add new data to hominin evolution in Asia
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  • Ancient sundial found in Valley of Kings
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  • Women voted 75 years before they were legally allowed to in 1918
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  • Black Death skeletons unearthed at rail site
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  • New look at heretic pharaoh Akhenaton's reign
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