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The Salem Witch Trials by Emerson "Tad" Baker The Salem Witch Trials of 1692-1693 were by far the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft hysteria in American history.

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How a Nixon Lawyer Fell Out of Love with Tricky Dick and Came to Tell the Real Story of Watergate by David Greenberg Now, on the fortieth anniversary of Nixon’s resignation, Dean has done what Nixon knew he could never do: listen to “all that crap,” make transcripts of the cover-up-related conversations, and write his own history of what happened.

Don’t Accept Putin’s Version of History by Anne Applebaum The West didn’t provoke Russia. It gave it more credit than it deserved.

Some in Japan want to deny "comfort women" were employed in WW II. They need to watch this. by David McNeill Japanese wartime medical orderly reports on army’s role in maintaining “comfort women” system.

Selective Memory and the CIA by Max Boot "Talk about politicized intelligence. At least that’s what it would be called if the president in office were a Republican."

Paranoia Crept into American Political Life a Long Time Ago by Lewis Beale Fifty Years ago, “The Paranoid Style of American Politics” changed how we think about modern conservatism. The American polity has been dealing with it ever since.

How an African slave helped Boston fight smallpox by Ted Widmer Centuries before Ebola, Cotton Mather faced down another global epidemic with a health tactic from abroad.

How Hong Kong's business elite have thwarted democracy for 150 years by Philip Bowring Philip Bowring says a look back over the past 150 years reveals how Hong Kong's business elite have continually used their power to frustrate the public's democratic ambitions

Watergate campaign finance reforms are 40 years old (video history) Forty years later, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.

Fear of immigrants spreading disease is nothing new by Jonathan Zimmerman "But a blanket prohibition on travel from West Africa? That’s prejudice, plain and simple."

Will the War on Terror Be the Template for the Ebola Crisis? by Karen J. Greenberg Fighting the Last War

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Study Finds Many Colleges Don’t Require Core Subjects Like History, Government Few Schools Mandate Study of Areas Such as Economics or Foreign Languages

Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial Clears Final Design Hurdle Assuming that Congress does approve funding for the memorial, the Eisenhower Memorial Commission is planning to break ground in 2015.

Large Crowd Protests NYC Terrorism Opera A famed opera that depicts the real-life murder of an American Jew by Palestinians has enraged hundreds Manhattan’s West Side.

GOP senators ripped for blocking museum House champions of legislation to jump-start the creation a women’s history museum in the nation’s capital are upping the pressure on Senate conservatives who are blocking the proposal in the upper chamber.

Fox is distorting the history of the Bush administration’s WMD claims The hosts of Fox News' The Five distorted the history behind the rationale for the U.S. war in Iraq by reshaping an investigative report by the New York Times.

Two vessels from WWII convoy battle off North Carolina discovered: German U-boat 576 and freighter Bluefields found within 240 yards Lost for more than 70 years, the discovery of the two vessels, in an area known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, is a rare window into a historic military battle and the underwater battlefield landscape of WWII.

Scientists Excavate Ancient Submerged Cities for Clues to Our Fate Prehistoric humans moved their communities away from disappearing coasts, but it won’t be so easy for us.

Roman Gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank a tonic of ashes after training These are the findings of anthropological investigations carried out on bones of warriors found during excavations in the ancient city of Ephesos.

Massachusetts is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the wedding of John and Abigail Adams Three historical sites will host events in the 250th Wedding Anniversary Celebration Weekend of Abigail and John Adams.

King Tut had overbite, club foot because his parents were brother and sister The results are revealed in a BBC One documentary, “Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered.”

Prehistoric humans were far smarter than previously assumed 325,000-year-old stone tools go to prove that our forefathers were far better at collaborating and planning than we thought.