One of the largest analyses to date on how fake news spread on Twitter both during and...
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The British poster artist Cyril Kenneth Bird, known as Fougasse, once referred to posters as “anything stuck...
America was seen as the promised land by the oppressed and exploited masses. By Åse Elin LangelandHistorian...
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A lot of what is known about pirates is not true, and a lot of what is...
Almost everything we know about Dr. Lionel Wafer comes from his own pen. He enters the historical...
There’s a hidden history of Black activists who were also college-football players. By Dave Zirin In 1966,...
The integration of collegiate and professional sports parallels the civil rights movement, but in important ways it...
How James Harris changed the NFL’s marquee role. An hour or two before kickoff on the night...
As a player and a coach, Walter Camp rewrote rugby’s rules to create a sport fit for...
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Examining the dietary and physiological requirements of a modern athlete and contrasting this with those of ancient...
Punishment for cheating and bribery in the Olympics of Ancient Greece could include fines, public flogging and...
Bull-leaping fresco from the east wing of the palace of Knossos (reconstructed), c. 1400 B.C.E., fresco, 78...
Bull’s head rhyton from the palace at Knossos, c. 1550-1500 B.C.E., black steatite, jasper, and mother-of-pearl, 26...
Without distractions, he produced some of his best writing there in exile. By Ted Lawrence, J.D. Some writers are...
Jame’s Laughlin’s life amalgamated many seemingly dissonant strains in twentieth-century America into a coherent whole. The American...
Times had taken a sharp turn for the worse. Lexington and Concord had changed everything. When the...
Americans were fed up. The “Intolerable Acts” were more than the colonies could stand. In the summer...
Gaining an understanding of the particular social processes involved in the transitional Terminal Classic period in this...
Because Mayan hieroglyphs have yet to be encoded, the ancient Mayan emperor K’inich Janaab’ Pakal would have...
Prior to 1951, there was no systematic way for the U.S. government to communicate with citizens during...
Twenty years from now, there will be no eyewitnesses left to tell their stories. Only twice in...
In this confidence trick, the criminal contacted the victim offering a large sum of money, or other...
The origins of the sixteenth President’s facial hair are more tangled than you might think. It’s a...
Hominin systematics, encompassing both taxonomy and phylogeny, has significant implications for how the evolution of species and...
DNA studies reveal that African elephants belong to a very successful and widespread family. For a long...
A community in so many ways defined by reinvention butting up against land prized for its preservation...
The humble sea turtle became the pinnacle of haute cuisine in the eighteenth century. From calipash to calipee, the green...