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Why Queen Elizabeth Wore Such Wild Makeup—and How It May Have Led to Her Decline

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The Most Important Album of 1968 Wasn’t The White Album. It Was Beggars Banquet.

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R.I.P. to This 500-Year-Old British Guy Who They Found Wearing Sexy Boots in the Mud

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Mary Queen of Scots Asks Whether a Female Sovereign Can Have It All

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’70s Memo Indicates George H.W. Bush Had Role in Nixon Obstruction-of-Justice Scheme

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Lord Byron’s Wife: The First Woman to Have to Deal With Her Bad Boy Husband’s Cruel Fans

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Did a Censorship Conspiracy Cause Mae West’s Decline?

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UNC Plans to Spend $5 Million on Facility for Confederate Statue–Slash–Metaphor for Failure to Resolve Civil War

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George H.W. Bush’s Most Famous Out-of-Touch Gaffe Probably Didn’t Really Happen

Molly Olmstead

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George H.W. Bush Was a Better President Than Reagan or Clinton

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Uncovering the Hidden History of the AIDS Crisis on the New York Times Obituary Page

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Inside the Swedish Song Factory That Gave Rise to the ’90s Wave of American Teen Pop

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Alan Jay Lerner, Musical Theater Whiz Jack Viertel, and Sweat in the Rust Belt

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What Caused the Impeachment of Bill Clinton?

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The Gipper and the Tip, Bipartisan Civility, and Social Security

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When a Family of White Supremacists in Rural Idaho Became Stuff of Legend

Ruth Graham

Nov 28, 2018 5:19 PM

World War I Didn’t End for Everyone in 1918. And It’s Still Shaping Politics Today.

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What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in The Favourite

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Today, Miscarriage Is Seen as a Grievous Loss. But in the 19th Century, It Could Be a Happy Relief.

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