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  • History: Don’t Expect Much from ‘The Masses’

    History: Don’t Expect Much from ‘The Masses’0

    In the movie Gladiator, when Maximus enters the arena to boisterous cheers from the crowd, the jealous Commodus laments, “They embrace him like he’s one of their own.” His sister Lucilla responds, “The mob is fickle, brother. He’ll be forgotten in a month.” The mob is fickle. With these words, the character Lucilla succinctly expresses

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  • History Shows How We Could Have Avoided Our Happiness Decline

    History Shows How We Could Have Avoided Our Happiness Decline0

    A few days ago, it was revealed that American happiness had taken a historic plunge. Measuring numbers against the last 50 years, researchers from NORC at the University of Chicago announced that only 14 percent of Americans report being “very happy.” This is a “17 percentage-point drop since 2018,” the organization reported. Many Americans likely

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  • History Quiz: Kings of Medieval England

    History Quiz: Kings of Medieval England0

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  • History Comes to Call: The 1619 Project Cannot Deny Its Own Past

    History Comes to Call: The 1619 Project Cannot Deny Its Own Past0

    History is a harsh mistress when trifled with. Newspaper writers and editors make a profession of turning the present into history, and they acknowledge the dignity of facts with every correction appended to the bottom of their stories. Yet over the last year, the editors of The New York Times’ and Pulitzer Center’s 1619 Project

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  • Historical Living . . . in the City?

    Historical Living . . . in the City?0

    When someone says, “traditional lifestyle,” we think of historical farms, countryside views, gardens, animals, sunrises, and sunsets. We rarely, if ever, think of apartments, city streets, and rental townhomes with historical living. Perhaps you’re a college student in a campus dorm room. Maybe your job keeps you in an urban studio apartment. Perhaps skyrocketing housing

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  • Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle

    Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle0

    When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima – if they think of it at all, 75 years later – they think of one image: Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest point. That moment, captured in black and white by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal

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