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  • Assessing the "Feminine Mystique" Fifty Years On
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  • Robert Caro wins N-YHS American History Book Prize
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  • Should British Politicians Apologize for Colonialism?
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  • Photographic artifacts of black Civil War troops
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  • Culinary exhibitions add life to museums' period rooms
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  • 13th Amendment ratified in MS!
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  • Hollywood's scorn for mere facts
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  • Robert Caro wins $50,000 history prize
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  • Putin's idea to house Jewish collections rejected
  • Scribol test
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  • Putin's idea to house Jewish collections rejected
  • Besieged commander's 'Victory or Death' letter returns to the Alamo for first time
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  • Michael Kazin: Who Are You Calling a Liberal?
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  • Keith Harris: Can Social Media Bridge the Gulf Between Academic Historians and the Public?
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  • LISTEN: Ed Baptist w/ Insider Higher Ed on antebellum America
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  • Ireland apologizes to women of Catholic laundries
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  • Hunting for £1billion in Nazi gold
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  • Lincoln artifacts appraisal released
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  • PM Cameron visits Amritsar – but no apology
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright homes saved
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  • “War on Terror”: The Ticking Time Bomb
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  • Moshe Dann: Hezbollah, Syria and the Golan Heights
  • Why bogus quotations matter in gun debate
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  • Library of Congress to the rescue!
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  • Will the study of archaeology soon become a thing of the past?
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  • Norwegian guerrilla warfare in the Iron Age
  • Little-Known Archaeological Site Could Answer Questions About The Enigmatic Indus Valley Civilization
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  • Syrian violence threatens ancient treasures
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  • Paul Krugman apologizes -- sorta -- to Niall Ferguson
  • Iconic Japanese Film Historian Donald Richie Passes Away
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  • Iwo Jima original sculpture for sale
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  • Murray Polner: Review of Sam Roberts's "Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America" (Grand Central Publishing, 2013)
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  • Mexican archaeologists discover two burials estimated to be over 500 years old
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  • Hoard of 16th century toys found
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  • Bulgarian Archaeologists Uncover Major Roman Thermae
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  • Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease
  • Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story
  • Curious Case of Lincoln Birthplace
  • A glimpse into 9,000 years of village life
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  • What will we look back upon with pride?
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  • Washington Tortures Everywhere ... Except Latin America
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  • Starr Center Announces Finalists for 2013 George Washington Book Prize
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: A History Lesson on Assassinations
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  • Advice from a mentor. . .
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  • On Other Websites: Week of February 18, 2013
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  • Is It Presidents Day or President's Day or Presidents' Day?
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  • Saul Alinsky's Rules
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  • JFK memorabilia at auction
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  • Jim Cullen: Review of Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary" (Scribner, 2012)
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  • Why Gender Equality Stalled
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  • Saul Alinsky's Rules
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  • Saul Alinsky's Rules
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  • Luther Spoehr: Review of Robert Sullivan's "My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
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  • Modern politics overshadows Israel’s historic Herod exhibit
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  • 3 new Lincoln movies
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  • Mary Beard stirring up trouble again--and loving it
  • A Mediocre Evening with Sir Isaac Newton
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  • The Only Opposition Response
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  • Russia's Other Meteor Explosions
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  • Ronald Dworkin, Scholar of the Law, Is Dead at 81
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  • Anger That a Herod Show Uses West Bank Objects
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  • Bradley craig Email
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  • Resigning pope brings doomsday prophecy
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  • R. Scott Hanson: Presidents as Pastors in Chief -- An Update on Religion in Inaugural Addresses
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  • Didcot dig: A glimpse of 9,000 years of village life
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  • 1,500-year-old landfill discovered in USVI
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  • Medieval secrets revealed in Norwich Cathedral
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  • Mexico finds fire-god figure at top of Pyramid of the Sun
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  • Bengali Harlem: Author documents a lost history of immigration in America
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  • Nazi graffiti prompts look at Detroit plant
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  • France to return 7 paintings looted during WWII
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  • Ancient asteroid strike in Australia "changed face of earth"
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  • Ancient Temple Discovered in Peru
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  • Tutankhamun could have been lost forever
  • New Macbeth trail in Scotland
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  • Social Security: A Right or a Privilege?
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  • How Do I Decode Slave Records?
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  • Munley email
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  • After Richard, hunt for Alfred the Great
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  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Whose Daughters Will Engage in Combat?
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  • Even the Israeli Center is Racist
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  • Ishmael Reed: Neo-Classical Republicanism
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  • Neolithic art is saved by lasers
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  • Supporters celebrate battlefield purchase, future Civil War park
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  • 2 USS Monitor sailors to be interred at Arlington
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  • Wrestling ousted from Olympics
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  • Landowner trying to sell portion of Wounded Knee
  • Only surviving synagogue near Auschwitz on verge of collapse
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  • Only surviving synagogue near Auschwitz on verge of collapse
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  • The Feminine Mystique 50 Years On [NYT Video Debate]
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  • Somebody Bugged the Meeting Rooms at Guantanamo
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  • Serbian cave produces oldest human ancestor in this part of Europe
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  • Ancient languages reconstructed by computer
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  • Isotopic data show farming arrived in Europe with migrants
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  • Hail Columbia! The federal government’s relentless expansion has made Washington, D.C., America’s real Second City.
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  • The Pension Fund That Ate California
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  • What Chris Christie Could Learn From William Howard Taft
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  • The State of the Union and the State of the "Homeland"
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  • Why the next pope should be African
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  • New Sonar Map Shows Details Of USS Hatteras Wreck
  • John Blaxland and Rikki Kersten: East Asia in 2013 Resembles Europe in 1913
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  • Alex Seitz-Wald: Would Lincoln Use Drones?
  • Ordering Off the Menu in China Debates
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  • Kenneth W. Thompson, director of University of Virginia’s Miller Center, dies
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  • Syrian rebels loot artifacts to raise money for fight against Assad
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  • 2 unknown sailors from Civil War ironclad USS Monitor to be interred at Arlington
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  • Plan to save America’s audio history
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  • Syrian official warns of trafficking in antiquities
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  • Viewing the Nazis Through Their Children’s Eyes
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  • Richard R. John: How the Post Office Made America
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  • Justin E. H. Smith: The Enlightenment’s ‘Race’ Problem, and Ours
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  • History of early Christianity named best scholarly book in arts and sciences
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  • France takes step back in history
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  • Ted Widmer: From Obama, a Proudly Liberal Message
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  • Garry Wills: New Pope? I’ve Given Up Hope
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  • LBJ love letters to Bird
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  • House of Representatives Historian Launches Website
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  • Micronesia historian Dirk Ballendorf dies at 73
  • Historian correctly predicted location of Richard III
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  • Historian Charles Glatfelter dies after brief illness
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  • Historian David McCullough on Work and the Pursuit of Happiness
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  • Pope Benedict XVI Never Aspired to Be Pope: Historian
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  • Swiss rejected fewer Jews, Nazi tracker says
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  • VA Historical Society's slave name database
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  • Eisenhower Library's ambitious exhibit
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  • Despite Nazi past, Israel considered pope friend
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  • Historic DC tree accidently cut down by Park Service
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  • Video mashup of 60 years of SOTU
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  • When the pope was powerful, and why that changed
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  • Rep. Joe Courtney gets lesson in Oscar politics in debate over ‘Lincoln’ accuracy
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  • '50s anti-comic crusade fudged his data
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  • Ellen J. Staurowsky: U.S. Office for Civil Rights Asked to Ban American Indian Mascots in Michigan Public Schools
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  • Sarah Carr: In Southern Towns, 'Segregation Academies' Are Still Going Strong
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  • Is Housework Really Bad for Men's Sex Lives?
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  • CoontzPic
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  • The dos and don’ts of live-tweeting at an academic conference: a working draft
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  • Amity Shlaes: The Small Presidency
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  • Landowner voices reservations about proposed study
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  • Will Washington Ever Learn from Its Past Mistakes? Not Likely.
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  • How the Union’s state got so ‘strong’
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  • Jon Wiener: Lincoln's Birthday Special: Management Advice from Honest Abe
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  • Julian Zelizer: Obama, Think Big for State of the Union
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  • Mystery of eccentric landowner solved after 300 years
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  • Rare portrait of Elizabeth I owned by North Carolina Garden Club shown in Washington
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  • Ancient languages reconstructed by computer program
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  • Picasso used house paint
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  • The Afterlife of the British Empire
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  • Ron Briley: Review of Richard Lingeman's "The Noir Forties: The American People from Victory to Cold War" (Nation Books, 2012)
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  • The 10 Best Lincoln Moments in Film History
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  • The Boy Scouts Shouldn't Force Every Troop to Admit Gays
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  • Philip Rubio: Austerity Saturdays from the Postal Service
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  • Richard White: Americans Didn’t Always Yearn for Riches
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  • Where Have All the Real Conservatives Gone?
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  • New satire unleashes Hitler on modern, multi-cultural Germany
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  • The Next Pope: What Happens Now?
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  • Which Other Popes Have Resigned?
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  • Confederate flag mistakenly raised over Mississippi Supreme Court building
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