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The Electric Typewriter: History

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Updated Jun 11, 202624 essays

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Japanese Roots0.0

Jared Diamond·Discover Magazine·1998History

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Neanderthals Were People, Too0.0

Jon Mooallem·The New York Times·2017History

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On the Importance of Staring Directly Into the Sun0.0

Adam Mastroianni·Experimental History·2023History

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Ten Thousand Years of Solitude0.0

Jared Diamond·Discover Magazine·1993History

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Elif Batuman·The New Yorker·2015History

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The Day the Mesozoic Died0.0

Sean B. Carroll·Nautilus·2016History

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The Origins of Agriculture0.0

Jared Diamond·Discover Magazine·1994History

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The Third Magic0.0

Noah Smith·Noahpinion·2023History

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What Endures From the Ancient Civilizations That Once Ruled the Central Andes?0.0

Charles C. Mann·Smithsonian Magazine·2015History

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Does It Help to Know History?0.0

Adam Gopnik·The New Yorker·2014History

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Germany's Unlikely Diplomatic Triumph0.0

Klaus Wiegrefe·DER SPIEGEL·2010History

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How Slavery Really Ended in America0.0

Adam Goodheart·The New York Times·2011History

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How the US Has Hidden its Empire0.0

Daniel Immerwahr·The Guardian·2019History

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Israel and the Delusions of Germany’s ‘Memory Culture’0.0

Pankaj Mishra·The Guardian·2025History

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Last Days of the Comanches0.0

S. C. Gwynne·Texas Monthly·2010History

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Native Intelligence0.0

Charles C. Mann·Smithsonian Magazine·2005History

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The Arrow of Disease0.0

Jared Diamond·Discover Magazine·1992History

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The Case for Reparations0.0

Ta-Nehisi Coates·The Atlantic·2014History

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The Secret History of Black England0.0

Zadie Smith·The Guardian·2022History

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This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write0.0

Taffy Brodesser-Akner·The New York Times·2025History

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We Should Fix Climate Change — but We Should Not Regret It0.0

Thomas R. Wells·ABC Religion & Ethics·2022History

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Were Pirates Foes of the Modern Order—or Its Secret Sharers?0.0

Daniel Immerwahr·The New Yorker·2024History

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When Dynamite Turned Terrorism Into an Everyday Threat0.0

Steven Johnson·The New York Times·2024History

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Why the Age of American Progress Ended0.0

Derek Thompson·The Atlantic·2022History