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By: john-russell • History & Sociology • 8 Comments • one month ago

You Will Not Replace Us

By: john-russell • History & Sociology • 49 Comments • one month ago

How ‘alternative facts’ threaten US democracy

Via: hallux • History & Sociology • 18 Comments • one month ago

Knocked Up and the American Impulse to Edit Out Abortion

Via: hallux • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 2 months ago

WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID

Via: hal-a-lujah • History & Sociology • 18 Comments • 3 months ago

Human History Gets a Rewrite

Via: hallux • History & Sociology • 10 Comments • 3 months ago

Shackleton's Famous Antarctic Shipwreck Finally Discovered in The World's 'Worst Sea'

Via: vic-eldred • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 4 months ago

How Paper Money Saved the Union - WSJ

Via: vic-eldred • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 4 months ago

Are you smarter Than a jeopardy college contestant Part 2

By: john-russell • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 4 months ago

Here is a final jeopardy question that all three of the college championship contestants got wrong. ================ The first Decoration Day in 1868 , to later become known as Memorial Day, took...

MBTI (Myers-Briggs) Part II: What Personality Type Are You? NT users' results revealed! (& some other fascinating stuff)

By: krishna • History & Sociology • 63 Comments • 5 months ago

[Scroll down to see what type various people on NT are....] If you missed it, Part I is HERE. Part III : MBTI Myers-Briggs Personality Test - Part III: The "Secret" of each...

The Cost of Engaging With the Miserable

Via: hallux • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 6 months ago

The Inventors of America’s Most Dangerous Idea - Freedom was once a rallying cry for justice, but the country’s Realtors had a better use for it.

Via: john-russell • History & Sociology • 4 Comments • 7 months ago

History Lesson : In 1940 There Were Two Negro Officers In The Army And None In The Navy

By: john-russell • History & Sociology • 17 Comments • 8 months ago

A survey of America and race just prior to WW2.

This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.

Via: hallux • History & Sociology • 80 Comments • 8 months ago

Early Civilizations Had It All Figured Out A contrarian account of our prehistory argues that cities once flourished without rulers and rules—and still could.

Via: thomas • History & Sociology • 15 Comments • 8 months ago

This will be on my reading list.

The Great Resignation Is Accelerating

Via: hallux • History & Sociology • 7 Comments • 9 months ago

Did lead poisoning cause downfall of Roman Empire? The jury is still out.

Via: hallux • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 9 months ago

This Little-Known Peruvian Civilization Built Pyramids as Old as Ancient Egypt's - HISTORY

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 47 Comments • 10 months ago

Louisiana's Poverty Point Earthworks Show Early Native Americans Were 'Incredible Engineers' |Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 15 Comments • 10 months ago

History : The End ? Of The Slave Trade

By: john-russell • History & Sociology • 3 Comments • 11 months ago

Canada's Governor-General Mary Simon's Father - A Reason Why She Is Exceptional

By: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • last year

This was an email sent to me by my brother - A long read, but worth it. Governor General Mary Simon's Father: Bob May; legend of the Eastern Arctic as Hudson Bay post manager --born in...

This Day In History

Via: john-russell • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • last year

Silent Sam and other Civil War monuments rose on race

Via: john-russell • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • last year

Statue of Canada residential schools architect toppled in Toronto

Via: hallux • History & Sociology • 8 Comments • last year

Good!

1619 - The Year That Changed America

Via: john-russell • History & Sociology • 50 Comments • last year

I am not going to suggest that this is a momentous article in terms of Newstalkers discussions, but I am posting it as a counterpoint to the constant drumbeat we get from two members in...

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