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Mods wanted!
If anyone would like to help me set up these communities and/or mod, please get in touch. This place is what we make it and I’d love some fresh ideas. I mod a number of smaller science subreddits and would like to help make this place just as nice, if not better!
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How the Disappearance of Flight 19, a Navy Squadron Lost in 1945, Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-disappearance-of-flight-19-a-navy-squadron-lost-in-1945-fueled-the-legend-of-the-bermuda-triangle-180987759/cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6963678 ... read full post
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On contrarian history – Going Medieval
https://going-medieval.com/2025/11/25/on-contrarian-history/arguing that the ‘Fall of Rome’ created a ‘Dark Ages’ which was bad and is a term that is pejorative from a place of total ignorance.
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New York’s Grand Central Terminal Helped Provide the Blueprint for American Cities. It Happened by Accident
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-yorks-grand-central-terminal-helped-provide-blueprint-american-cities-happened-accident-180987640/Early on the morning of January 8, 1902, two young women, Sadie Scott and Minnie Rice, stood on a snow-covered train platform in New Rochelle, New York, waiting for the 7:48 A.M. express that would take them to their jobs as stenographers in New York City. ... read full post
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The Black Soldiers who Defeated the Fascists in WW2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c7u83UcG814
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I Read Hitler's Book in 2025. It scared me for us. | The Present Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtLWwN-w3c0
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Who was responsible for the defeat of fascism in World War II? : Peoples Dispatch
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/13/who-was-responsible-for-the-defeat-of-fascism-in-world-war-ii/7
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Ancient Egyptians may have been ‘daily’ opium users, new study shows
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-egyptians-opium-morphine-tutankhamun-study-b2864467.htmlScientists said the findings are the ‘clearest evidence to date’ of broad opium use in Egyptian society
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Lawyer Explains why the U.S. was NOT Stolen from Mexico
https://youtu.be/wxpap-8kzbY0
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Sundaland, A Real Lost Atlantis?
https://youtu.be/W8W4XMokB8A18
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Signatures meant more in Mesopotamia than they do now: What cylinder seals say about ancient and modern life
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-signatures-meant-mesopotamia-cylinder-ancient.htmlThe earliest form of the signature came from ancient Iraq in the form of cylinder seals.
Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these inventions, cylinder seals are perhaps the most distinctive but least known.
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These United States: Ken Burns on America's continuing revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whnL0ftvg0cDocumentary filmmaker Ken Burns has long been a chronicler of the American experience. He talks with John Dickerson about his latest film for PBS, "The American Revolution"; the importance of studying history; and why the end of the Revolutionary War did not mean the end of our nation's revolution. ... read full post
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Historian Tom Holland: Islam, Christianity & the West
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=29QRPGrlgjY4
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What Really Doomed Napoleon’s Army? Scientists Find New Clues in DNA
https://www.404media.co/what-really-doomed-napoleons-army-scientists-find-new-clues-in-dna/5
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Yolanda Colom: The Memory of Guatemala’s Revolution
https://resumen-english.org/2025/10/yolanda-colom-the-memory-of-guatemalas-revolution/12
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Read what a Chinese officer wrote of D-Day in his diary salvaged in Hong Kong
https://apnews.com/article/dday-hong-kong-china-france-liberation-war-359faf9096745490e137027d4eea8c90OUISTREHAM, France (AP) — The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War II’s most closely guarded secrets: Prepare yourselves, he said, for “an extremely important task.” ... read full post
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Robert Hart (head of Chinese Customs 1863-1910) and his Loyalties, Neither Chinese Nor British
https://visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10/19/guest-blog-yorgos-moraitis-on-robert-hart/Robert Hart is a key figure in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chinese history, best known for building and expanding the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs (CIMC) during his nearly fifty years as Inspector General (1863-1910). Beyond overseeing tax collection on behalf of the Qing government, he played a crucial role in Sino-Western affairs, serving as a mediator in negotiations between the Qing court and foreign diplomats. ... read full post
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What are good archaeological YouTube channels? Or history YouTube channels?
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9492082 ... read full post
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India in 1525. The beginning of the Mughal Empire
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55680034
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55677001
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The ridiculous death of the second Mughal Emperor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humayuncross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44560400 ... read full post
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The graffiti of Pompeii was downright raunchy, and absolutely hilarious
https://gizmodo.com/the-graffiti-of-pompeii-was-downright-raunchy-and-abso-5929627cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44442932 ... read full post
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Who were the Etruscans?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6EzAsyTdGWo&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv2
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How 1949 and the Cold War Internationalized the First Indochina War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58PAc7zAtSg-1
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A Peoplez History of the United States
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/More_Books_and_Reports/Howard_Zinn-A_peoples_history_of_the_United_States.pdfWe dontwanna repeat it again.