WOMEN IN HISTORY, They Were Forbidden To Study Medicine For Several Years Until Someone...

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One of the Last Slave Ship Survivors Describes His Ordeal in a 1930s Interview

More than 60 years after the abolition of slavery, anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston made an incredible connection: She located one of the last survivors of the...

40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found

The bracelet was discovered in a site called the Denisova Cave in Siberia, close to Russia’s border with China and Mongolia. It...

The 1800s: When Americans Drank Whiskey Like it was Water

This piece is part of a series of essays on alcohol history. History, by and...

Rabbit hole in farmer’s field leads to ‘mystery caves’

An apparently ordinary rabbit's hole in a farmer's field leads to an underground sanctuary said to have been...

[Monday September 9, 1776.][from the Autobiography of John Adams]

Monday September 9, 1776. Resolved, that in all Continental Commissions, and other Instruments where...

The 1,500-Year-Old Lady’s Sandals with Sweet Message in Greek

The ancient sandals were discovered almost intact in the Istanbul dig. Credit: Twitter/@NkayaMuhittin A pair of 1,500-year-old lady’s...

8 founding fathers and how they helped shape the nation

Without them, there would have been no United States of America. The Founding Fathers, a group of predominantly wealthy plantation owners and...

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