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This Is What Hanukkah Is All About. Hint: It Was a Near-Death Experience

Though Hanukkah now is a Jewish counterpart to the Christian holiday of Christmas, it commemorates Judaism’s bare survival of an attempt to obliterate it by a Hellenistic king

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Why Is It Congress Seems Concerned With Families Only When Sex Trafficking Is at Issue?

It's an old tradition in America, going back to the Mann Act of 1910

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This Is What Ken Burns Neglected to Tell You About Eleanor Roosevelt

Ken Burns was right to include ER in his portrait of the Roosevelts. He just didn’t do her justice

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What Makes a Democrat a Democrat and a Republican a Republican? It's More Complicated Than You Think

It remains the case that a large majority of the public has liberal views on some issues and conservative views on others

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Did a Mediocre Letter of Recommendation for Martin Luther King, Jr. Change the Course of History?

"A few years ago I found some correspondence that I thought might have profoundly altered the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. thereby redirecting the course of American and world history"

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How Dr. Alzheimer Discovered a Disease in a Mental Asylum

The unusual case seemed to stick out and the psychiatrist sensed that there was something special about Auguste. Dr. Alois Alzheimer decided that he should see Auguste for himself

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This Thanksgiving Let’s Finally Stop the Nonsense About the Puritans and Pilgrims

Our ancestors were aliens. It’s time we realize that

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What You Didn’t Know About William Jennings Bryan. What You Should Know About Darwin

Enthusiasm for improving the human race could have negative consequences

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Is This the Solution to Partisan Gridlock in Washington?

A long-abandoned Washington tradition hints at a simple remedy; one reducible to a single word, in fact: gin. Or vodka, if you prefer

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Congress May Approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, but History Shows How the Debate Has Shifted Against Energy Producers

What can the Alaska Pipeline teach us about Keystone?

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What the Opponents of the New AP Standards Don't Get

Recent events in Denver, Colo., underscore a misunderstanding Americans generally hold regarding the U.S. history curriculum

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Looking to Science for Answers About Race

How a forgotten scientist changed the way we talk about race

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What Would Lincoln Do? Why This Is the Wrong Question

Don't bother looking to past leaders for solutions to today's problems

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This Is Where Ebola First Struck in 1976 and What Happened

Investigators identified a cotton factory as the source of the infection

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5 Ways Coffee Changed the Course of History in England

It even helped the establishment of democracy

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