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The lives of noble women in the Viking world were shaped by politics and logistics, and worlds apart from the lives of enslaved women – yet both groups were foundational to that milieu
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In his will, Charles Vance Millar offered roughly 500,000 Canadian dollars to the mother who "has since my death given birth to the greatest number of children"
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A new book by historian Emily Sneff records the journeys of the Declaration's first printed copies, tracking their reception in the Thirteen Colonies and overseas
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A new exhibition at Kensington Palace tells the riveting story of Sophia Duleep Singh, daughter of the last maharaja of the Sikh Empire
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If you’ve ever earned a free latte for buying ten of them earlier, it’s a direct result of the phenomenon created by a company few remember today
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Carl Morris traces the origins of long-distance running as a sport back to the heyday of 19th-century pedestrianism
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Lucy Worsley's PBS series highlights the emotional fallout of the conflict, with a focus on the British perspective
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The first of the Jewish-Roman wars was interrupted by one of the defining events of the 1st century, and gave birth to one of ancient Rome’s most powerful dynasties
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The conflict divided the six tribes of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, most of whom decided to join the British. The former allies clashed at the Battle of Oriskany in New York in 1777
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After working in the classics for more than 50 years, Mary Beard reflects on her career and her evolving relationship with the ancient world
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Pasquale Paoli was a “small fish fighting an entire empire.” Four thousand miles away, the founding fathers were watching and taking notes
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Clara and André Malraux conspired to loot the pink temple of Banteay Srei, but their failure started a battle of reclamation
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When Elizabeth II ascended the throne in 1952, she could barely have conceived the currents – imperial retreat, multiculturalism, de-industrialiation – that would transform the nation during her reign. On the centenary o
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She wrote the letter that would come to define her legacy on March 31, 1776. But 250 years later, Americans are misinterpreting her open-ended request
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At the end of the Second World War, the victorious Allies had to decide the fates of the surviving leaders of a regime that had initiated the bloodiest conflict in history, and perpetuated the Holocaust
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The country’s “mother road” started out as a way to get from Point A to Point B but quickly became the host of a culture and a symbol of freedom
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Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public spaces in Mississippi's capital
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Americans who turned the letter written by the future first lady into a suffragist rallying cry may have misunderstood her intentions
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A long-overlooked 1929 account contains the earliest known reference to the anecdote, suggesting that the 27th president found himself trapped in a tub during a Mississippi River voyage
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Lydia Darragh defied her commitment to pacifism by spying during the American Revolution
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