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Medieval souks destroyed in Syria

Aleppo's ancient covered market burned down amidst fierce fighting

Associated Press Sunday, Sep 30, 2012 7:14 PM UTC
News Aleppo, Free Syrian Army

Vatican: Jesus wife artifact is a fake

Experts split on authenticity of Coptic parchment

Natasha Lennard Friday, Sep 28, 2012 3:25 PM UTC 14
News Catholicism, History

Twitter histories of events are vanishing

Much of the social media activity shared during the Arab Spring has already disappeared

Natasha Lennard Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 10:22 PM UTC 10
News Twitter, Social Media, History

Income inequality greater than in 1774

A string of historical studies shames current U.S. income distribution

Natasha Lennard Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 8:18 PM UTC
News Academia, American History

Stop talking about your grandpa!

Republicans like to talk about their "humble roots" in order to disguise their true upper-class ideology

Sunday, Sep 2, 2012 1:30 PM UTC 41
Politics Republican Party, History

“The Graves Are Walking”: Was the Great Potato Famine a genocide?

A new book argues that free-market ideology, not murderous intent, killed Ireland's millions

Laura Miller Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 103
Entertainment What to Read, Books, History

Ronald Reagan: Informant

At a crucial moment in his career, Reagan talked to the FBI about communism in Hollywood

Seth Rosenfeld Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 12:00 PM UTC 50
Politics Ronald Reagan, 1960s, History, FBI

Repeal the 17th Amendment!

The surprising Republican movement to strip voters of their right to elect senators

Alex Seitz-Wald Thursday, Aug 16, 2012 2:16 PM UTC 87
Politics U.S. Constitution, U.S. Senate

How fiction fooled Hitler

Pulitzer Prize-winner Tina Rosenberg discusses the novelist who helped defeat the Nazis

Jina Moore Sunday, Aug 12, 2012 3:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Writers and Writing, Books

Killing Queen Victoria

John Bean thought assassinating the monarch was the ticket to a life of leisure. A true story

Paul Thomas Murphy Sunday, Jul 22, 2012 6:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Books, England, History, London

‘Most-wanted Nazi’ found

Laszlo Csatary, who reportedly helped send 15,700 Jews to die at Auschwitz, has been found in Budapest

Freya Petersen, GlobalPost Tuesday, Jul 17, 2012 2:41 PM UTC 30
News GlobalPost, World War II, Europe

Eric Berkowitz on sex and society

The author of "Sex and Punishment" discusses how people have sought to regulate sex

The Browser Monday, Jul 9, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 20
Life The Browser, Sex, History, Books

Hitler spared Jewish comrade

Ernst Hess briefly served as Hitler's commander during the First World War

David Trifunov, GlobalPost Saturday, Jul 7, 2012 2:30 PM UTC 13
News Germany, GlobalPost, History

The post-Cold War era is over

Global free trade and indefinite American military hegemony are both dead. What comes next?

Michael Lind Tuesday, Jul 3, 2012 8:07 PM UTC 14
Politics History, Globalization

Earhart mystery solved?

On the 75th anniversary of Amelia Earhart's final flight, an expedition team says it can find her missing plane

Amanda Morrow, GlobalPost Monday, Jul 2, 2012 1:28 PM UTC 13
Life GlobalPost, Mysteries, aviation

The 1 percent’s first fight

Debates about the rich's influence in government are as old as the country

Saturday, Jun 30, 2012 3:00 PM UTC 12
Politics American History, History

Leave nothing untold

A two-volume testament to the pre-Depression craft of photoengraving

J. J. Sedelmaier, Imprint Friday, Jun 29, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Imprint, Photography, Books

Magic and the machine

It is getting harder to distinguish reality from magic but alchemy cannot sustain us

Lewis H. Lapham, TomDispatch.com Monday, Jun 25, 2012 1:49 PM UTC
Politics technology, Politics, History

God is a weapon

Presidential candidates have used religion to attack each other for centuries. An expert explains why -- and how

Santiago Wills Thursday, Jun 21, 2012 2:00 PM UTC
Life American History, History

Obsessed with Anne Boleyn

A new novel feeds our curiosity about an icon and her real Game of Thrones. Was she the first modern woman?

Lynn Parramore, Alternet Monday, Jun 18, 2012 10:01 PM UTC 10
Entertainment Feminism, History

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