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May 25, 2020
Episode | Date |
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The Executioner in the Premodern West
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Mar 22, 2025 |
Cassandra Austen: Jane’s Adored Sister
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Mar 08, 2025 |
Tales from the Tower of London II
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Feb 22, 2025 |
Coming Home from War in Ancient Greece
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Feb 08, 2025 |
Hummel and Howe – Attorneys at Crime
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Jan 25, 2025 |
History for the Holidays IV
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Dec 07, 2024 |
A Royal Son: Eustace, Count of Boulogne
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Nov 23, 2024 |
Thurkill’s Excellent Adventure: A Medieval English Peasant’s Tour of Hell
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Nov 09, 2024 |
History for Halloween XI
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Oct 26, 2024 |
How to Avoid the Death Penalty in Medieval England, Part II
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Oct 12, 2024 |
How to Avoid the Death Penalty in Medieval England, Part I
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Sep 28, 2024 |
So You've Been Elfshot
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Sep 14, 2024 |
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Malet Coup
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Aug 31, 2024 |
The Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca
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Aug 17, 2024 |
Medieval Midwives Beyond Myths
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Aug 03, 2024 |
Tales from the Tower of London: Gruffudd ap Llywelyn and Ranulf Flambard
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Jul 20, 2024 |
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Many Accounts of the Execution of Anne Boleyn
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May 18, 2024 |
Alfred Packer, Notorious Cannibal?
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May 04, 2024 |
Owney: Star Pup of the US Railway Mail Service
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Apr 20, 2024 |
Medieval Coroners
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Apr 06, 2024 |
Dressing Marie Antoinette
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Mar 23, 2024 |
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Part II: Life and Legend
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Mar 09, 2024 |
Tadeusz Kościuszko, Part I: International Icon, Revolutionary Hero
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Feb 24, 2024 |
Harry Washington
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Feb 10, 2024 |
Murder and the Mignonette
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Jan 27, 2024 |
History for the Holidays III
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Dec 09, 2023 |
The Many Adventures of Pope Innocent III
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Nov 25, 2023 |
Kościuszko Squadron
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Nov 11, 2023 |
History for Halloween X
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Oct 28, 2023 |
The Witchcraft Trial of Alice Kyteler
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Oct 14, 2023 |
Leo Frank and the Murder of Mary Phagan
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Sep 30, 2023 |
The Cold Truth: A History of Refrigeration
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Sep 16, 2023 |
Titus Oates, a Popish Plot, and the Mysterious Murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
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Sep 02, 2023 |
A Royal Son: Geoffrey, duke of Brittany
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Aug 19, 2023 |
True Crime on Stage in Shakespeare’s England
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Aug 05, 2023 |
Wyatt Earp and a Heavyweight Fix
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Jul 22, 2023 |
William Mumler and Spirit Photography in the 19th century
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Jul 08, 2023 |
Marlene Dietrich’s Scandalous Trousers
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May 20, 2023 |
SPECIAL EDITION: The Stone of Destiny and the Crowning of Kings
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May 06, 2023 |
The Public Arch
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Apr 22, 2023 |
The Newsies Strike of 1899
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Apr 08, 2023 |
The Weeks Murder Trial
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Mar 25, 2023 |
Margaret Eaton and the Petticoat Affair
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Mar 11, 2023 |
1288: A Moment in Norwich
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Feb 25, 2023 |
Footnoting History’s Favorite Historical Footnotes
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Feb 11, 2023 |
Rebecca Gratz: Philanthropist, Educator… Romantic Heroine?
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Jan 28, 2023 |
The Papal Fleet
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Jan 14, 2023 |
History for the Holidays II
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Dec 03, 2022 |
The Greatest Knight: William Marshal, Part II
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Nov 19, 2022 |
The Greatest Knight: William Marshal, Part I
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Nov 05, 2022 |
History for Halloween IX
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Oct 22, 2022 |
Who Murdered Licoricia of Winchester?
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Oct 08, 2022 |
The Milne Family Part II
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Sep 24, 2022 |
The Milne Family Part I
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Sep 10, 2022 |
The Oneida Community, Part II
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Aug 27, 2022 |
The Oneida Community, Part I
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Aug 13, 2022 |
Jeffrey Hudson: England’s Forgotten Swashbuckler
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Jul 30, 2022 |
Maria Merian’s Metamorphosis
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Jul 16, 2022 |
Listener Q&A
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Jul 02, 2022 |
Godiva’s Not-So-Naked Ride
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May 21, 2022 |
Anna May Wong: International Star, Forgotten Icon
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May 07, 2022 |
The Gold Cure
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Apr 23, 2022 |
The Brothers York, Part II
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Apr 09, 2022 |
The Brothers York, Part I
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Mar 26, 2022 |
Sarojini Naidu: Beyond the Golden Threshold
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Mar 12, 2022 |
Blue Jeans and the American Dream: The Story of Levi Strauss
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Feb 26, 2022 |
The History of Valentine’s Day
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Feb 12, 2022 |
The Origins of the Salem Witch Trials
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Jan 29, 2022 |
Winnie-the-Pooh
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Jan 15, 2022 |
History for the Holidays
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Dec 11, 2021 |
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part II
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Nov 27, 2021 |
Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris, and the South, Part I
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Nov 13, 2021 |
History for Halloween VIII
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Oct 30, 2021 |
Ivanhoe and the Modern Middle Ages
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Oct 16, 2021 |
Ivanhoe and the Invention of Merry England
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Oct 02, 2021 |
Sicilian Vespers, Part II: The Massacre and the War of the Vespers
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Sep 18, 2021 |
Sicilian Vespers, Part I: The Uprising
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Sep 04, 2021 |
The Ottoman Kafes or the Princely Cage
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Aug 21, 2021 |
Mohenjo Daro: Living City, Mound of the Dead
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Aug 07, 2021 |
The History of Tikka Masala
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Jul 24, 2021 |
Moe Berg, Baseball's Scholar and Spy
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Jul 10, 2021 |
Christopher Columbus and the Book of Prophecies
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May 29, 2021 |
Stede Bonnet, the Gentlemen Pirate
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May 15, 2021 |
Empress, Strategist… Saint? Irene of Byzantium
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May 01, 2021 |
Florida: Frontier and Cracker History
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Apr 17, 2021 |
Anne Neville and the Wars of the Roses
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Apr 03, 2021 |
Divorcing in Revolutionary France
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Mar 20, 2021 |
The Martyrs of Thana
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Mar 06, 2021 |
The Forme of Cury
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Feb 20, 2021 |
From Hwaet to the Ring Shout: Lorenzo Dow Turner
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Feb 06, 2021 |
The Origins of American Eugenics
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Jan 23, 2021 |
Hurrem Sultan: the Woman Who Changed Ottoman Queenship
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Dec 12, 2020 |
Marie Louise, Napoleon's Second Empress
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Nov 28, 2020 |
Milicent Patrick and the Creature
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Nov 14, 2020 |
History for Halloween VII
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Oct 31, 2020 |
Surviving the Plague in 1665
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Oct 17, 2020 |
William Miller and the Great Disappointment
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Oct 03, 2020 |
Beyond Sacrifice: Aztec Medicine and Healing
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Sep 19, 2020 |
Jane Manning James
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Sep 05, 2020 |
The Male Witch
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Aug 22, 2020 |
Maya, Spain, and the Historical Record
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Aug 08, 2020 |
Revolutionary Movies, Part II: Dr. Zhivago and The Last Emperor
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Jul 25, 2020 |
Revolutionary Movies, Part I: The Patriot and Les Miserables
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Jul 11, 2020 |
Slavery and the Colony of Georgia
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May 30, 2020 |
The Parnell Affair
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May 16, 2020 |
Passing Exams in Imperial China
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May 02, 2020 |
The Other Anne Boleyn
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Apr 18, 2020 |
Prester John
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Apr 03, 2020 |
Footnoting Disney: Mulan
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Mar 21, 2020 |
Footnoting Disney: The Little Mermaid
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Mar 07, 2020 |
Footnoting Disney: Pocahontas
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Feb 21, 2020 |
Footnoting Disney: Aladdin
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Feb 08, 2020 |
Footnoting Disney: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Jan 25, 2020 |
The Forbidden Holiday
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Dec 14, 2019 |
Haitian Revolution, Part II: 1794-1804
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Nov 30, 2019 |
Haitian Revolution, Part I: 1791-1793
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Nov 16, 2019 |
The Unquiet Afterlife of Elizabeth Siddal
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Nov 02, 2019 |
History for Halloween VI
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Oct 19, 2019 |
The Chinese Exclusion Act
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Oct 05, 2019 |
The Life and Travels of Newport Gardner
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Sep 21, 2019 |
Evil Humors and the Common Cold
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Sep 07, 2019 |
Revolutionary Notre-Dame de Paris
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Aug 24, 2019 |
The Emu War
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Aug 10, 2019 |
An Extraordinary Medicine Called Theriac
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Jul 27, 2019 |
Purgatory is Not the Medium Place
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Jul 13, 2019 |
Jessie Pope, (In)Famous Poet of World War One
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May 18, 2019 |
The Woman Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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May 04, 2019 |
King John and His Dogs
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Apr 20, 2019 |
Harlem Renaissance Man: James Weldon Johnson
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Apr 06, 2019 |
Henry II and Thomas Becket, Part II: Rivals
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Mar 23, 2019 |
Henry II and Thomas Becket, Part I: Friends
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Mar 09, 2019 |
The History of Grading
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Feb 24, 2019 |
The End is Nigh! The Apocalypse in the Renaissance
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Feb 10, 2019 |
American Indian Prisoners of War
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Jan 26, 2019 |
Mao and His Mango
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Jan 12, 2019 |
Potosí: The Silver Mine that Changed the World
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Nov 17, 2018 |
King Henry I of England and the White Ship
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Nov 03, 2018 |
History for Halloween V
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Oct 20, 2018 |
How to Make a Fortune in Fictional Poyais
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Oct 06, 2018 |
The Legend of Pope Joan
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Sep 30, 2018 |
Escape from Slavery: The Story of Mary and Emily Edmonson
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Sep 08, 2018 |
Beyond the Trenches: Other Fronts of WWI
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Aug 25, 2018 |
How to Avoid Serving in Napoleon's Army
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Aug 11, 2018 |
Who Was Bass Reeves?
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Jul 28, 2018 |
Ancient Authoritative Animals
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Jul 14, 2018 |
Special Edition: The Marriage of John Quincy and Louisa Adams
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May 19, 2018 |
The Blazing World of Lady Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
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May 05, 2018 |
Yolande Du Bois and the Weight of W.E.B. Du Bois's Dreams
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Apr 22, 2018 |
Ambition, Anxiety, and the Unseen Universe: Science and Victorian Fiction
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Apr 07, 2018 |
Evacuating the Loyalists
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Mar 24, 2018 |
Hoelun the Stolen Bride
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Mar 10, 2018 |
The Papal Pornocracy
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Feb 25, 2018 |
Censorship in Reformation England
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Feb 10, 2018 |
Jewish Fighters of Medieval Europe
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Jan 27, 2018 |
How to Be a Beguine
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Jan 13, 2018 |
Back of Every Great Work: The Story of Emily Warren Roebling
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Dec 16, 2017 |
Napoleon Bonaparte's Near-Fatal Christmas
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Dec 02, 2017 |
The Malleus Maleficarum
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Nov 19, 2017 |
Distrust of Chinese-Americans in Early 20th-Century New York City
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Nov 04, 2017 |
History for Halloween IV
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Oct 21, 2017 |
Cemeteries: Washington Park Cemetery and Early 20th-Century Atlanta
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Oct 07, 2017 |
Belle Gunness, Black Widow Serial Killer
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Sep 23, 2017 |
John Dee: Astrologer, Courtier, Mystic...Spy?
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Sep 09, 2017 |
The Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
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Aug 26, 2017 |
The Murderess in History
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Aug 12, 2017 |
Cemeteries: Local History of Mid-20th Century Atlanta
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Jun 17, 2017 |
Guy de Montfort and Dante’s Inferno
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Jun 03, 2017 |
Secret Santa: The History of Santa Claus
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May 23, 2017 |
The Husband-Killing She-Wolf: The Life of Joanna of Naples
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May 23, 2017 |
The One-Legged Nazi-Fighting Jesuit: Rupert Mayer
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May 20, 2017 |
Jumbo the Elephant
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May 06, 2017 |
How to Punish a Witch in 16th-Century England
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Apr 22, 2017 |
The Great Unpleasantness? World War One in Whodunits
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Apr 08, 2017 |
Curious George Escapes Nazi Europe
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Mar 25, 2017 |
Early American Newspapers and Freedom of the Press
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Mar 11, 2017 |
A Royal Son: Henry the Young King
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Feb 25, 2017 |
The Trotula and Medieval Gynecology
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Feb 11, 2017 |
Tuxedo Park: Inside the Gate
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Feb 03, 2017 |
The Woman and the 20-Pound Tumor
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Jan 28, 2017 |
54° 40' or Fight: How a Latitude Line became a Rallying Cry
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Jan 14, 2017 |
Ghosts of Christmas Past
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Dec 17, 2016 |
Olga Nethersole and the Sapho Scandal
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Dec 03, 2016 |
Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon
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Nov 19, 2016 |
The Un-Engagement of Jane Austen
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Nov 05, 2016 |
History for Halloween I
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Oct 24, 2016 |
History for Halloween II
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Oct 24, 2016 |
History for Halloween III
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Oct 22, 2016 |
Poison in Colonial India
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Oct 08, 2016 |
The (Failed) Republic of Fredonia
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Sep 25, 2016 |
Tycho Brahe: The Astronomer with a Copper Nose
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Sep 10, 2016 |
The Rise of the British Spy Novel
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Aug 27, 2016 |
The Murder of Sweden's King Gustav III
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Aug 13, 2016 |
The Life of Beatrice de Planissoles
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Jun 18, 2016 |
Desert Queens? Women at the Edges of Empire from Hester Stanhope to Gertrude Bell
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Jun 04, 2016 |
The Life and Crimes of Caravaggio
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May 21, 2016 |
Al Capone's Pineapple Primary
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May 07, 2016 |
Easter Rising, Part II: Aftermath
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Apr 23, 2016 |
Easter Rising, Part I: Origins
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Apr 09, 2016 |
Disney and the Space Race
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Mar 26, 2016 |
Evelyn Nesbit and the Crime of the Century
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Mar 12, 2016 |
The Eleven Lost Days
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Feb 27, 2016 |
After Napoleon: Josephine Divorced
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Feb 13, 2016 |
Medieval Animal Trials
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Jan 30, 2016 |
Sherlock Holmes in Popular Culture
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Jan 16, 2016 |
The Great Medieval Canon Law Forgery
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Dec 06, 2015 |
The Origins of "I Am A Man"
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Nov 21, 2015 |
Apples in America
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Nov 07, 2015 |
Hospitals in the Victorian City
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Oct 10, 2015 |
Papal Residences: The Lateran, The Vatican, and Castel Gandolfo
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Sep 26, 2015 |
The Royal Teeth of Louis XIV
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Sep 12, 2015 |
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
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Aug 29, 2015 |
The Invention of Canning
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Aug 15, 2015 |
Big History?
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Aug 01, 2015 |
Comic Books and Thrill-Killers? An Interview with Mariah Adin
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Jul 18, 2015 |
Independence from Whom? The American Revolution and Europe
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Jul 04, 2015 |
Nuts: James Mulligan, Anthony McAuliffe, and the Notion of Surrender
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Jun 20, 2015 |
Dogs: The Final Frontier
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Jun 06, 2015 |
Opium Wars and Peace
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May 23, 2015 |
Bonapartes in America: Jerome and Elizabeth
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May 09, 2015 |
Special Edition: British Royal Siblings
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May 02, 2015 |
Pop! Pop! Pop! A Brief History of Popcorn
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Apr 25, 2015 |
Cola di Rienzo: Medieval Tribune of the Roman Republic
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Apr 11, 2015 |
The Mystery of the Classic Authors
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Mar 28, 2015 |
The Lepers and the London Nurse: The Remarkable Travels of Kate Marsden
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Mar 14, 2015 |
Jean Hardouin and the Phantom Time Conspiracies
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Feb 28, 2015 |
Watson, Franklin, and the Drama of DNA
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Feb 14, 2015 |
Mush!: A Short History of Dog Sledding
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Jan 31, 2015 |
Empress Eugénie in Exile, Part II: Life After Empire
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Jan 17, 2015 |
Empress Eugénie in Exile, Part I: Flight from Paris
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Jan 03, 2015 |
King Arthur's Christmas: Christianity, Paganism, and Community
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Dec 21, 2014 |
Protest Pop and Queen Elizabeth II' s Silver Jubilee
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Nov 29, 2014 |
Robert Bruce: Stabbings and Statebuilding
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Nov 22, 2014 |
Mental Institutions, Part II: The Rosenhan Experiment
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Nov 15, 2014 |
Mental Institutions, Part I: Nellie Bly's Exposé
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Nov 08, 2014 |
Guy Fawkes
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Nov 01, 2014 |
The Demon Core
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Oct 25, 2014 |
Advances in the West: Grant's Army in 1862
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Oct 18, 2014 |
Taking the Waters: Good Health Among the "Best People"
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Oct 11, 2014 |
Hugh O'Neill and the Tudors
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Oct 04, 2014 |
Dog Stars, Part II
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Sep 27, 2014 |
Dog Stars, Part I
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Sep 20, 2014 |
Seeking to Punish in 17th-Century England
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Sep 13, 2014 |
King Childeric of the Franks: Barbarian?
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Sep 06, 2014 |
Space Exploration and History ft. Asif Siddiqi
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Aug 30, 2014 |
Alan Turing
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Aug 23, 2014 |
Warrior, Wife, and Mother: The Story of Sichelgaita of Salerno
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Aug 16, 2014 |
The Scientific Passions of Mary Buckland
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Aug 08, 2014 |
Laura Bridgman, Charles Dickens, and Helen Keller
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Aug 02, 2014 |
Rosamund: 6th-Century Regicide and Politics
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Jul 26, 2014 |
Lawrence O'Brien: Fenians and the American Civil War
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Jul 19, 2014 |
The Rise of the Studios: The Origins of the Film Industry, Part II
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Jul 12, 2014 |
Love, Parachutes, and Käthchen Paulus
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Jul 12, 2014 |
Alcibiades: The Bad Boy of Athens
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May 31, 2014 |
Before Napoleon: Josephine Bonaparte's First Marriage
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May 25, 2014 |
The King James Bible: One Version of the Greatest Story Ever Told
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May 17, 2014 |
Nursery Rhymes, History, and Memory
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May 10, 2014 |
A Tale of Three Breeds
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May 03, 2014 |
The Birth of a Blockbuster
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Apr 26, 2014 |
Jumping the Broom: The Evolution of a Wedding Tradition
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Apr 19, 2014 |
From Magic Lanterns to Nickelodeons: The Origins of the Film Industry, Part I
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Apr 13, 2014 |
Dr. Fredric Wertham: Hero or Super-Villain?
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Apr 05, 2014 |
The Life and Times of Emperor Diocletian
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Mar 29, 2014 |
Richard the Lionheart on Crusade
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Mar 22, 2014 |
Irish Family Values: The Clannrickard Burkes in the Mid-Sixteenth Century
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Mar 15, 2014 |
Mademoiselle de Maupin: The Life and Afterlife of a 17th-Century Swashbuckler
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Mar 01, 2014 |
The History of the Academy Awards
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Feb 21, 2014 |
Buck and Blanche (and Bonnie and Clyde)
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Feb 15, 2014 |
Brotherhood Under the Black Flag: Multiracial Pirate Crews of the Early Modern Period
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Feb 08, 2014 |
One Year Anniversary Show: How We Became Historians
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Feb 01, 2014 |
From Union Soldier to Confederate Bushwacker: Loyalty and Disloyalty in Civil War West Virginia
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Jan 25, 2014 |
Cold Noses and Oxytocin: Doggy Prehistory
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Jan 18, 2014 |
Rilla of Ingleside and the WWI Homefront
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Jan 11, 2014 |
2:31:56*: The Rosie Ruiz Scandal
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Jan 04, 2014 |
The Christmas Truce of 1914
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Dec 28, 2013 |
Historical Ad Campaigns
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Dec 14, 2013 |
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Part II: Australia and New Zealand
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Nov 30, 2013 |
Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Part I: The Abduction
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Nov 23, 2013 |
Reformation Propaganda
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Nov 16, 2013 |
Living Memory: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Nov 09, 2013 |
Cheating on Jesus: Bigamy in the Medieval Catholic Priesthood
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Nov 02, 2013 |
The Only Running Footman
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Oct 26, 2013 |
The Many Reformations of 16th-Century Europe
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Oct 19, 2013 |
Queer Women in the Golden Age of Mysteries
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Oct 12, 2013 |
Criminalizing Sex in Early Modern England
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Oct 05, 2013 |
Medieval Gift Elephants
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Sep 28, 2013 |
Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico
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Sep 21, 2013 |
The Strategic Failure of the Habsburg Chin
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Sep 14, 2013 |
Popular Protest in Late Antique Ravenna
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Sep 07, 2013 |
Confucius and Jesus: The Jesuit Mission to China
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Aug 31, 2013 |
Napoleon, Part II: Life in Napoleonic Society
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Aug 24, 2013 |
The Origin of the Marathon: Linking Past to Present
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Aug 17, 2013 |
The Mau Mau Insurgency
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Aug 10, 2013 |
Mozart's Zombie, the Runaway Priest, and the Emperor's Opera
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Aug 03, 2013 |
Emperor Akbar, the Mughal Empire, and Divine Faith
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Jul 27, 2013 |
Special Edition: Royal Baby Names
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Jul 22, 2013 |
Napoleon, Part I: The Man
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Jul 13, 2013 |
The Several Defenestrations of Prague
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Jul 06, 2013 |
Entertainment in Medieval Towns
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Jun 29, 2013 |
Goethe's Werther and the Suicide Effect
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Jun 22, 2013 |
Why Simon de Montfort is in the U.S. House of Representatives
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Jun 15, 2013 |