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Topic: History (page 5)

Matthew Rhys, Juliet Rylance, Sean Astin (Merrick Morton/HBO)

History behind "Perry Mason" grocer feud

Ashlie D. Stevens
Absinthe (Food 52)

The folklore-filled history of absinthe

Ellen Clifford - Food52
A Proud Boys gestures | Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio | California Storm Clouds (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Historical amnesia and the end of days

Henry A. Giroux
Abraham Feller (great uncle of the author), Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Library of Congress)

Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery

Peter Birkenhead
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Wooden Chairs In Classroom Auditorium (Getty Images/Nikola Spasic/EyeEm)

When liberal institutions screw up

Paul Rosenberg
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A history buff with a big blindside

Jeff Cohen
Leon Trotsky, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Putin, Biden, Ukraine and ... Trotsky?

Andrew O'Hehir
American beaver (Getty Images/barbaraaaa)

Why beaver is a "fish" during Lent

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Andes Mints (Courtesy of Andes)

The old-school nostalgia of Andes Mints

Ashlie D. Stevens
Doomsday Clock (Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Doomsday Clock: The danger is real

Émile P. Torres
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joe Biden and Lyndon B. Johnson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Biden might be a great president

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

The alcoholic civilization hypothesis

Troy Farah
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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
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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
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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
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