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History of Apple: how Apple came to lead the tech industry  by Nik Rawlinson Our History of Apple begins with a look at Apple's not so humble beginnings...

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Undeveloped World War II Film Discovered The Rescued Film Project discovers and processes 31 rolls of film shot by an American WWII soldier over 70 years ago.

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How Historians Lost Their Public  by Thomas Bender The scholarship of the past couple of generations is too valuable to keep to ourselves.

The one-dot theory of history  by Louis Menan Predicting the present is nearly as hard as predicting the future.

Syria: ISIL Conquest of Yarmouk Palestinian Camp refutes Israeli Propaganda  by Juan Cole On Wednesday, the extremist Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) group, known for its brutal beheadings and mass murder, took over the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp inside Damascus city limits.

Why Yemen Matters  by Daniel Pipes The Middle East witnessed something radically new two days ago, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia responded to a plea by Yemen's president and led a 10-country coalition to intervene in the air and on the ground in the country.

Satellite Images Don’t Lie  by Stephen H. Savage What it’s like to be an archaeologist watching ISIS and other groups destroy important sites in the Middle East.

Clones on the Court  by Akhil Reed Amar A Supreme Court that once included former senators and governors is populated today by judges with identical résumés. Here's why that's a mistake.

The End of History, Part II  by Lynne V. Cheney The new Advanced Placement U.S. history exam focuses on oppression, group identity and Reagan the warmonger.

Why Reconstruction Matters  by Eric Foner The post-Civil War era dealt with many of the same issues we grapple with today.

Is Texas Southern, Western, or Truly a Lone Star?  by John Nova Lomax For most Texans, reveling in cowboy culture as a birthright or ancestral heritage is a fiction.

Magna Carta Messed Up the World, Here’s How to Fix It  by Noam Chomsky The “logic” of capitalist development has left a nightmare of environmental destruction in its wake.

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Why Is Obama Keeping Secret Four Seconds of a Nixon-Era Tape? Releasing it “would reveal information that would impair U.S. cryptologic systems or activities,” a National Security Agency spokeswoman says.

'A.D. The Bible Continues' Goes Beyond the Biblical Epic Politics in Jerusalem 33 A.D. was just as complex and dangerous as it is today and NBC's new series, "A.D. The Bible Continues" fuses the biblical epic with the current rage for taut political dramas - "House of Cards" in sandals.

Medieval Graveyard With More Than 1,000 Skeletons Unearthed At Cambridge University The burials date mostly from the 13th through the 15th centuries, when a hospital stood opposite the graveyard.

H-Bomb History Published Over Government Objections Physicist Kenneth W. Ford, who participated in the design of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, has published a memoir of his experiences despite the objections of Energy Department reviewers who requested substantial redactions in the text.

Western Scholars Alarmed By Russian Deportations, Fines "There does, indeed, appear to be much greater scrutiny of foreign scholars and students concerning visa status of late," says a second Western scholar.

Egyptian ‘Mona Lisa’ A Fake ‘The Meidum Geese’, as modern-day Egyptologists and art historians refer to it, depicts six geese in profile, with a level of finesse which sets it apart from any other ancient Egyptian artwork. The painting’s beauty and detail has led it to be called the ‘Mona Lisa’ of ancient Egyptian artwork.

The Story Behind ‘Woman in Gold’: Nazi Art Thieves and One Painting’s Return Gustav Klimt’s painting “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” was returned to Maria Altmann and her family.

Scott Walker, Allergic to Dogs, May Run Against Political History In his likely candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Gov. Walker of Wisconsin faces a different sort of constitutional challenge: overcoming his aversion to man’s best friend.

Russian History Receives a Makeover That Starts With Ivan the Terrible The exhibition accused the Western news media of miscasting Czar Ivan IV as “the Terrible.”

Parsing Ronald Reagan’s Words for Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Researchers have found subtle indications of dementia in transcripts of the former president’s news conferences.