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A Radioactive Cold War Military Base Will Soon Emerge From Greenland’s Melting Ice
They thought the frozen earth would keep it safely hidden. They were wrong
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The Ancient History of Cheating in the Olympics
Punishment for cheating and bribery in the Olympics of Ancient Greece could include fines, public flogging and statewide bans from competition
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What Does a Beer Historian Do?
The American History museum’s latest job opening made headlines. But what does the job actually entail?
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How the Abduction of Patty Hearst Made Her an Icon of the 1970s Counterculture
A new book places a much-needed modern-day lens on the kidnapping that captivated the nation
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How the American Civil War Built Egypt’s Vaunted Cotton Industry and Changed the Country Forever
The battle between the U.S. and the Confederacy affected global trade in astonishing ways
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Learn to Be a Viking (Without the Pillaging) in Ribe, Denmark
Travel back in time in this Viking village
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How Do Smithsonian Curators Decide What to Collect at the Political Conventions?
For Smithsonian’s Lisa Kathleen Graddy and Jon Grinspan, it’s trying to guess what people of the future will want to know about 2016
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The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures
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The Only Time a Major Party Embraced a Third-Party Candidate for President
Horace Greeley was the choice of the splinter grip named the Liberal Republican Party and that of the Democrats
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The History of Women Presidents in Film
Why the science-fiction genre was the first to imagine a female commander-in-chief
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How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class
From the 1970s to 1990s, the government-owned Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium dominated the educational software market with more than 300 games
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How to Avoid the Pitfalls in the Politics of Graphic Messaging
The director of the National Portrait Gallery offers a few pointers on how to acquire visual intelligence
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What the Candidates (and Journalists) Can Learn From the 1948 Democratic Convention
The first time television was beamed into millions of homes meant that presidential politics would have to change
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When the GOP Picked a Nominee for Vice President, Only to Be Rejected
Their unrequited choice seemed utterly uninterested in the role
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