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In 1733, James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia with a vision that was radical for its time: a utopian settlement where slavery would be permanently banned, alcohol prohibited, and land distri...

24 Mar 37min

The history of Western thought is often presented as a smooth progression from ancient philosophy through the Enlightenment to modern science and democracy. The reality was far bloodier. Nearly every ...

24 Mar 28min

In 1973, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution over President Richard Nixon's veto, attempting to reassert legislative authority over the nation's ability to wage war. The showdown represented the...

24 Mar 35min

In 1960, the state of Louisiana became the battleground for one of the most brazen campaigns of voting sabotage in American history. White officials in multiple parishes systematically purged Black vo...

24 Mar 30min

The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is remembered as one of the most devastating military surprises in history. But buried within the catastrophe lies an extraordinary paradox: the very fa...

24 Mar 42min

The Lewis and Clark Expedition is one of the foundational stories of American westward expansion, but the standard telling consistently underestimates the contributions of two people without whom the ...

24 Mar 35min

Scattered across the Ohio Valley and throughout eastern North America, ancient earthworks built by Indigenous peoples thousands of years ago display a level of geometric precision that continues to as...

24 Mar 31min

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous societies developed ways of living that challenge virtually every assumption the modern world holds about law, governance, and social organization. Among the ...

24 Mar 28min