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Topic: History (page 5)

Close-up of carving on wood, Patrai, Greece (De Agostini via Getty Images)

The alcoholic civilization hypothesis

Troy Farah
Rand Paul, Josh Hawley and Robert A. Taft (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Mr. Republican" and the Nazis

Mike Lofgren
Toasting champagne flutes during a celebration (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

Why do we drink champagne on NYE?

Ashlie D. Stevens
Illuminated Christmas tree on the snow at night (Getty Images/sot)

Christmas trees are older than Christmas

Troy Bickham - The Conversation
The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate may have driven Huns to raid

Troy Farah
Portrait of American military commander and 18th US President Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885) (Stock Montage/Getty Images)

The president who couldn't hear music

Matthew Rozsa
Still Life With Eggs And A Leg Of Mutton (Heritage Art/Getty Images)

How eggs became a motif in artwork

Joy Saha
Kanye West (Getty/Oliver Contreras)

Ye, DeSantis and resurgent antisemitism

Henry A. Giroux
Santa Claus and fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The psychedelic history of Christmas

Troy Farah
Carving of a small cat at the archaeological site of Kom Ombo, Egypt | A house cat with a collar (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cat domestication follows colonization

Troy Farah
Kham Thien street in central Hanoi which was turned to rubble by an American bombing raid on December 27, 1972. (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Fake history and the "Christmas bombing"

Arnold R. Isaacs
Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Hunter Biden's laptop: Theme of 2023?

Heather Digby Parton
Old engraved illustration of view of Indian village, South Dakota (Getty Images/mikroman6)

What Native Americans have taught me

Frederick E. Hoxie
Factory chimneys spewing smoke and pollution into the atmosphere on the outskirts of Ulan Bator (Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images)

'Anthropocene engine' changes the planet

Manfred Laubichler - The Conversation
Mike Davis (Wikimedia Commons)

Mike Davis' odyssey to "City of Quartz"

Tyler Reeb
Newspaper story on one of Nguyen Hong My's American adversary-in-the-sky whom he’s since befriended (Photo courtesy of author)

How Vietnam changed me — and America

Dennis Aftergut
President Ronald Reagan, campaigning for a second term of office, smiles during a rally speech at the California State Capitol the day before the 1984 presidential election. (Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Rap, Reagan and the 1980s

Stefan M. Bradley - The Conversation
A North Atlantic right whale swims in the waters of Cape Cod Bay April 14, 2019 near Provincetown, Massachusetts. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)

Whalers filling gaps in climate history

Ayurella Horn-Muller - Grist
Tokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. bombings, March 10, 1945. The Operation Meetinghouse air raid of 9-10 March 1945 was later estimated to be the single most destructive bombing raid in history. (Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)

War crimes? We must not forget Tokyo

James M. Scott
President Donald J. Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Adam Hochschild on Trump and history

Chauncey DeVega
A man scowls as he confronts a pro-choice demonstrator outside a pregnancy center in Little Rock. (Greg Smith/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why women's freedom threatens many men

Robert S. McElvaine
Stone Statue Head Wearing Headphones In Remote Rocky Dawn Landscape (Getty Images/peepo)

Who invented music?

Laura Dallman - The Conversation
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference at the Rosen Shingle Creek on February 26, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. (Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

GOP: No longer a legit political party

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Holiday Maple Glazed Turkey Dinner (Getty Images/Lauri Patterson)

What is Canadian Thanksgiving?

Joy Saha, Ashlie D. Stevens
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