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The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
The End of Reading Is Here
The Truth of El Mozote
The Truth of El Mozote
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They Gave Her A Lobotomy So Her Brother Could Be President
They Gave Her A Lobotomy So Her Brother Could Be President
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The Lazarus File
The Lazarus File
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The Mysterious Story of Moncacht-Apé, the Yazoo Explorer Who Walked Across America
History
The Mysterious Story of Moncacht-Apé, the Yazoo Explorer Who Walked Across America
Mike Bezemek·Outside
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Searching Paris for Ben Franklin, America’s ‘Least-Dead’ Founder
History
Searching Paris for Ben Franklin, America’s ‘Least-Dead’ Founder
Eric Weiner&Camille McOuat·The New York Times
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Hero or Traitor? The Legacy of a Revolutionary-Era Cherokee Woman.
History
Hero or Traitor? The Legacy of a Revolutionary-Era Cherokee Woman.
Ellen Barry·The New York Times
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The End of Reading Is Here
History
The End of Reading Is Here
Rose Horowitch·The Atlantic
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What Broke Monticello
History
What Broke Monticello
Bridget Gillespie·The American Prospect
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How an enslaved, shipwrecked African became the US's first great explorer
History
How an enslaved, shipwrecked African became the US's first great explorer
Eliot Stein·BBC
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My President Was Black
Race
My President Was Black
Ta-Nehisi Coates·The Atlantic
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The Founding Father Who Sought a Last-Minute Deal to Avert the Revolution
History
The Founding Father Who Sought a Last-Minute Deal to Avert the Revolution
Sarah Lyall·The New York Times
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American life in 1776 was far different than you imagine
History
American life in 1776 was far different than you imagine
Letty Avila·USC Dornsife Magazine
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
History
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
Vesuvius Challenge·Vesuvius Challenge
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How the sadistic Lucian Freud enthralled his lovers
Art
How the sadistic Lucian Freud enthralled his lovers
Florence Hallett·The i Paper
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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?
History
Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?
Guardian staff reporter·The Guardian
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Frank Lloyd Wright As A Mirror Of The American Condition
Art
Frank Lloyd Wright As A Mirror Of The American Condition
Andrew Deming·Aeon
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The Buffalo Raiders
War
The Buffalo Raiders
Stephen Wood·The Atavist Magazine
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‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings
Art
‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings
Stephen Phelan·The Guardian
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Soapbox
History
Soapbox
Dan Kois·Slate
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Who Was the Gayest Roman Emperor?
History
Who Was the Gayest Roman Emperor?
Russell Sprout·Sproutstack
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Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’
History
Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’
Ryan Leack·The Conversation
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1616 Pocahontas portrait shows how colonizers saw Indigenous Americans
History
1616 Pocahontas portrait shows how colonizers saw Indigenous Americans
Darrin Joy·USC Dornsife News
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An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project
Science
An Engineering History of the Manhattan Project
Brian Potter·Construction Physics
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