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In today’s fast-paced world we have a tendency to banish some things to the dustbin of history. Items are easily doomed to be forgotten or ignored by humanity. However, diving ...

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The guy pouring my beer in Anchorage told me that he knew there was no truth to decades-old rumors about a research facility 200 miles to the northeast. Nobody was up there talking to aliens or ...

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.