History
Selling a plantation in 2024
Nothing pricks a hole in the “it was so long ago, we’ve moved on” balloon like the meticulous preservation of the spoils of theft.
Gillian Brockell
History
Get the ‘arc of the moral universe’ out of your mouth.
Clean countertops, empty history.
History
It doesn't matter if the next president dies or declines
Let's take a walk through history and right-size the panic about Biden's age.
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Hi! I compiled this thing about time for you.
Hey there! If I sent you this link, it is because I want to share with you something that changed my life. It comes from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” He was in jail because of a bunch of super-racist white a-holes who loved oppressing
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One neat trick to prove the Civil War was not about states’ rights
The dead week between Christmas and New Year’s was always a banner time for Retropolis. Perhaps readers felt they weren’t too busy to read something historical and that may or may not have any relevance to their lives. In successive years, we got on huge traffic on this
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E. Jean Carroll, Maria Halpin, and the historical record
History is always biased when a human decides what gets included, and who gets left out.