HISTORY

Shipwreck off Kenyan Coast May Have Been Vasco da Gama’s São Jorge
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- . February 12, 2025
A new study links a shipwreck off the Kenyan coast of Ngomeni to be Vasco de Gama’s famed ship, the

The Wendish Crusade: Holy War or Political Ambition in the Baltic Frontier?
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- . February 9, 2025
For centuries, the Polabian Slavs lived in their ancestral homeland around the Elbe River, in what is today Germany. Following

Oldest US Firearm Found in Arizona and Tied to Coronado Expedition
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- . February 6, 2025
A groundbreaking discovery in southern Arizona has unveiled the oldest known firearm in the continental United States. A bronze wall

Bronze Age Sword Found in Danish Bog Leads to Hoard
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- . February 3, 2025
A Bronze Age sword, ritually bent before being deposited as an offering, has been unearthed in Værebro Ådal by a

Following Threads to Colonial Barbados
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- . January 31, 2025
Samplers, pieces of embroidery made to practise or demonstrate needlework stitches, were an important part of girls’ education for centuries.

Thanksgiving Evolved From Fasting and Prayer to Feasting and Mourning
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- . January 28, 2025
Thanksgiving observances predate the feast of the year 1621 shared by the Wampanoag Indians and the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony

Who to Blame for Early Modern Climate Change?
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- . January 25, 2025
The sky in the northern hemisphere had been darkened, the winters unusually harsh, and the summers barely arriving for decades

Otto the Great’s Tribute to His Late English Queen Finally Makes Sense
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- . January 22, 2025
A historical document composed by King Otto I, better known as Otto the Great, to his English queen has been

How the Thanksgiving Food Favorites Won Their Place at the Table
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- . January 19, 2025
Thanksgiving, celebrated annually in the United States, is a time-honored tradition marked by a feast that brings together family and

What Counts as a Planet?
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- . January 16, 2025
When, in 1816, John Keats began reading an Elizabethan translation of Homer, he became so enthralled that he stayed up