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Medal with Portrait of Caligula in the 6th Book, from Tibère ou les six premiers livres es Annales de Tacite Traduits par M. l'abbé de la Bléterie Professeur d'Eloquence au Collège Royal et de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres. A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale, published in 1768. Artist Augustin de Saint-Aubin. (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Caligula's garden is open

Matthew Rozsa
Looking at Pompeii from above (Getty Images)

Dig into this Pompeii-inspired lamb stew

Ashlie D. Stevens
Toasting with champagne (Getty Images)

The icy backstory of chilled drinks

Tulasi Srinivas - The Conversation
Traditional German holiday Goose Dinner with Dumplings and Red Cabbage (Getty Images)

Why don't we still eat Christmas goose?

Ashlie D. Stevens
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Puritans going to church: (Original Caption) "Thanks be to God for winter time! That bore the Mayflower up, To pour amid New England snows the treasures of its cup, To fold them in its icy arms, those sturdy Pilgrim sires, And weld an iron brotherhood around their Christmas fires." - B.F. Taylor. (Bettman Collection/Getty)

Why Puritans cracked down on Christmas

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation
Rutherford Hayes, Samuel Tilden, Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The 2020 election is 1876 all over again

Matthew Rozsa
US President Donald Trump waves as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, on October 15, 2020. - Trumps travels to North Carolina, Florida and Georgia for campaign stops on October 15 and 16. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Don't let Trump and his minions skate

Heather Digby Parton
Mediterranean hurricane (Medicane) Ianos makes landfall in Greece. (Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2020)

62 years of inaction on climate change

Lee Van Der Voo
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Women hold flares and placards during a protest called by "Collages Feminicides Paris" feminist organization in front of the Ministry of Justice on Place Vendome in Paris, on June 22, 2020. (FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP via Getty Images)

The banality of evocation

Erin L. Thompson - TomDispatch.com
Born on July 17, 1819, Eunice Newton Foote was an amateur scientist and a women's rights campaigner who was friends with American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Foote's experiments with atmospheric gases and her insights about past climate were overlooked for more than a century. (Drawing by Carlyn Iverson/NOAA/Climate.gov)

The suffragette-scientist

Dawn Starin
The Austrian-born Bernard Hollander favored a quantitative approach to phrenological diagnosis, and is shown here methodically measuring his own skull. His meticulous view of the critical role of cranial measurement mirrored Galton’s in its obsessive assessment of statistical averages. Image: Wellcome Collection. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902) (<a href="https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sqjvypsb">Wellcome Collection</a>. Bernard Hollander: Cranial Measurement (1902))

On the lasting legacy of eugenics

Jessica Helfand - MIT Press Reader
Young woman feeling bored while staying home for safety during a global pandemic (Getty Images)

Boredom is driving COVID-19 outbreaks

Luke Fernandez, Susan J. Matt
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The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold by Dan Goldberg (Beacon Press/Salon)

History repeating on racism, violence

Dan C. Goldberg
Astronomer, Galileo Galilei and US President Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Science denialism: From Galileo to now

Mario Livio
Protestors affiliated with the "Occupy Wall Street" protests wave signs and banners. At right: A rally during the Great Depression (AP/LOC)

History shows economy often wins

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation
Nurse holding up fist in protest | Plague Doctor illustration (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

How the Plague helped end feudalism

Adam McBride
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Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) the spokesperson for the America First Committee (AFC) giving the Nazi arm salute during a rally on October 30, 1941 (Irving Haberman/IH Images/Getty Images)

Lindbergh's journey to racist extremism

Candace Fleming
A model wears a creation for Hermes' Fall-Winter 2017/2018 ready-to-wear fashion collection presented Monday, March 6, 2017 in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) (AP)

The history of social distancing

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox - The Conversation
Dan Abrams | Boston Massacre (AP Photo/Salon)

How John Adams changed legal history

Dean Obeidallah
Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Can we heal America after Trump?

Chauncey DeVega
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a campaign rally at University of Nevada February 18, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The historical peculiarity of Sanders

Keith A. Spencer
Vietnam War Protesters in front of White House, Washington, D.C., USA, photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, August 1965. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

From a Vietnam protest to prison

Emily L. Quint Freeman
Passengers wear protective masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive at the Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 22, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Coronavirus outbreak spurs prejudice

Marisa Peryer - Undark
Washington (José Sarmento de Matos / History)

Washington would have hated Trump

Matthew Rozsa
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