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The real and complicated story of Ireland's past is a lot more interesting than Irish Americans make it out to be

To mummify their dead, the Ancient Egyptians needed to acquire exotic ingredients from faraway places.

Virginia Tech project finds forgotten Army surveys that reveal World War II lingo and harsh views on race, sex, and combat.

From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong. Louis Menand on “The Generation Myth” and “Gen Z, Explained.”

For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.

New research on humanity's deep past holds lessons for the future.

The women killed as witches centuries ago are starting to receive justice. But let’s not glamorise the murder of innocents

This month in Uncovering the Past several new finds and research provide new details for understanding the practices of past cultures.

Our country is made better, not worse, by young people reckoning with the full legacy of the institution.

Celtic people

The term BlackIrish refers to people of Irish descent with various dark features such as Black hair, dark eyeballs, and tanned skin.Although most people in the modern-day Republic of Ireland can barely notice the difference among Caucasian Irish people based on their appearance

Despite what you may hear during this year’s fiftieth anniversary commemorations, Stonewall was not the spark that ignited the gay rights movement. The story is well known: A routine police raid of a mafia-owned gay bar in New York City sparked three nights of riots and, with them, the global gay rights movement. In fact it is conventional to date LGBTQ history into “before Stonewall” and “after Stonewall” periods—not just in the United States, but in Europe as well. British activists can join Stonewall UK, for example, while pride parades in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are called “Christopher Street Day,” after the street in New York City on which the Stonewall Inn still sits. But there were gay activists before that early morning of June 28, 1969, previous rebellions of LGBTQ people against police, earlier calls for “gay power,” and earlier riots.

As the slogan goes, "Stonewall was a riot"—but what kind of riot? What the queer uprisings of 1969 share with the George Floyd protests of 2020.

Rana Mitter on China after the cultural revolution

Well before Bentham, Cesare Beccaria radically questioned the right of the state to imprison and execute its citizens

The fire has nearly completely engulfed the building's roof

The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ...

"There was at Athens a large and roomy house, which had a bad name, so that no one could live there. In the dead of the night a noise, resembling...

We asked a preeminent historian to investigate our coverage of people of color in the U.S. and abroad. Here’s what he found.

In 1917, the telephone’s inventor gave a speech that foresaw our modern world, from commercial aviation to the finite supply of oil.

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