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Denial and Tragedy in the Age of Cholera
How ignorance, quacks, and skeptics made a pandemic worse
Mar 9
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George Dillard
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Time for a Change
The long, contentious history of time shifts
Mar 5
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George Dillard
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The Ancient Art of Color
What painstaking processes created pigments that lasted millennia?
Mar 2
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George Dillard
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February 2025
Know Nothings and the Politics of Paranoia
How anti-immigrant misinformation fueled a misguided movement
Feb 23
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George Dillard
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Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage
Why does this ancient society capture the modern imagination?
Feb 19
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George Dillard
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The Picture of Free, Untrammeled Womanhood
How the bicycle liberated women
Feb 16
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George Dillard
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"The Bicycle Girls and the Costumes They Will Wear"
How the bicycle changed women's clothing
Feb 9
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George Dillard
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How Guantanamo Became a Black Hole
A history of imperialism and impunity, from Columbus to Trump
Feb 5
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George Dillard
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Riches from the Mouth of Hell
The dark legacy of Potosi
Feb 2
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George Dillard
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January 2025
I Was Here
Tourist graffiti through the ages
Jan 26
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George Dillard
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Nights of Misery
Insomnia through the ages
Jan 22
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George Dillard
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An Early Modern Richard Scarry
The joy of noticing in Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch
Jan 19
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George Dillard
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