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Topic: History (page 9)

Pilgrims observing the Anglicans led by Thomas Morton dancing around a Maypole at Mare Mount (Merrymount) settlement, 1628. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What was the first banned book?

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
A parent sits in the gallery before the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban teaching critical race theory in schools. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Let's talk about the critical race facts

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Joe Biden and Martin Van Buren (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Let's Go Brandon": A history lesson

Matthew Rozsa
Film poster of "Silent Night, Deadly Night" 1984 movie. (Tristar Pictures)

The right's war on Halloween — in 1984

Matthew Rozsa
Halloween Pumpkins (Getty Images/Martin Deja)

The history of Jack-o'-Lanterns

Amanda Sims - Food52
Scenes from the second week encampment of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest in Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The secret history of Occupy Wall Street

Brian James Schill
Barack Obama (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)

There was a president before Trump

Matthew Rozsa
The Voynich Manuscript is considered by scholars to be most interesting and mysterious document ever found. Dated 16th century (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

5 historic codes yet to be cracked

Livius Drusus - Mental Floss
Siberian Husky (Getty/Mirjam Claus)

Humans once used dogs as currency: study

Matthew Rozsa
9/11 Rewind (Illustration courtesy of Mr Fish)

Remembering 9/11: Evil begets evil

Chris Hedges
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani gives a tour of the World Trade Center attack site on 18 September, 2001, in New York. | George W. Bush speaks through a megaphone beside retired firefighter Bob Beckwith, 69, to firemen and other workers 14 September 2001 at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/PAUL J. RICHARDS/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

How Bush and Giuliani failed on 9/11

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump, Abraham Lincoln and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Drew Angerer/Jim Watson/Hulton Archive)

Only one election started a war (so far)

Matthew Rozsa
In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images)

The graveyard of empire strikes back

Chris Hedges
Jason Wilson pours a Great Divide Roadie Grapefruit Radler beer at the Great Divide Barrel Bar April 6, 2017 in Denver, Colorado. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

In defense of Stiegl Radler

Mandy Naglich
Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Trump praised Hitler's economy

Ryan Skinnell
The U.S. Army Engineers who are installing a portable nuclear power plant shown as they move the vaper condenser, a component of plant, into the power plant, circa 1960. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

The Army's nuclear power experiment

Paul Bierman - The Conversation
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) talks to reporters after an amendment vote on the infrastructure bill at the U.S. Capitol on August 4, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Now the fascists want to rewrite history

Chauncey DeVega
Kashmiri women journalists hold placards as they protest against the continued communication blockade by the Indian authorities after the revocation of special status of Kashmir on Oct. 3, 2019 in Srinagar. (Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)

Impact of internet shutdowns in India

Shonottra Kumar, Sumeysh Srivastava - Undark
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Why does Josh Hawley hate America?

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
The back of a red corset with black laces (Getty Images)

6 terrifying historical beauty practices

Therese O'Neill - Mental Floss
Donald Trump and Barack Obama (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Obama and Trump: Who laughed last?

Matthew Rozsa
The Christian right and the GOP are seeking to reframe America as a Christian nation (Getty Images/Javier Art Photography)

Christian nationalists go stealth-mode

Paul Rosenberg
Ku Klux Klan Marching in Washington | American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in Montgomery (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP's war on truth gets serious

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump, January 6th Capitol Riot and the War of 1812 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

War of 1812 vs. Jan. 6: Which was worse?

Matthew Rozsa
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