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How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking

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Phil Klay: “Killing a Guy is Not the Same as Having a Coherent Military Policy.”

Phil Klay: “Killing a Guy is Not the Same as Having a Coherent Military Policy.”

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“The Díaz Administration Is a Den of Thieves.” Political Activism in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico

“The Díaz Administration Is a Den of Thieves.” Political Activism in Turn-of-the-Century Mexico

Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Road to Revolution

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Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

Bill McKibben Reckons with the Glorified American History of His Boyhood

On the Myths and Truths of the American Revolution

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Discovering Franz Kafka’s Nearly-Lost Drawings

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Andreas Kilcher on the “Grotesque, Carnivalesque” Inventions

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How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

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The Dazzling, Treacherous World of New York City Real Estate

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