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Taiwan’s 100-Year Rise From Japanese Colony to Monopoly Producer of Microchips
Jul 18, 2024When global supply chains were shut down in 2020 and messily rebooted after COVID lockdowns ceased, one island nation emerged as the most important player in getting critical components to factories a...
When States Rights Were Emancipatory and Federalism was Restrictive: The Interbellum Constitution of 1812-1865
Jul 16, 2024Today, the words “federalism” and “originalism” are bandied about in the news almost daily, but to get at the underpinnings of these modern interpretations of constitutional law, it is essential to lo...
Is America Going Through a Late Roman Moment of Its Own?
Jul 11, 2024Every citizen of every state for the last two thousand years has compared his nation to Rome at some point. Americans considered Geroge Washington their Cincinnatus for taking on supreme power and giv...
How Five Castaways Survived After Being Left for Dead on the Falklands in 1812
Jul 09, 2024Charles H. Barnard, captain of the American sealing brig Nanina, had only the best of intentions. His aim was to ensure the survival of the people under his care. On June 11, 1813, Barnard and four ot...
The Capetians: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France and Gave Us the Fleur-De-Lys
Jul 04, 2024If Gothic cathedrals, troubadours, and the Crusades evoke a certain picture of medieval Europe, you might be surprised that these foundations of a shared French culture continue to shape European soci...
Why the Book is Humanity’s Most Important Invention
Jul 02, 2024Even in our increasingly digitized world, the print book endures as a technology at the heart of human culture. Throughout its 550-yearhistory, the book has transformed at the hands of countless print...
How and Why Humans Started Speaking
Jun 27, 2024Most people know at least 50,000 words and speak around 16,000 per day. We speak between 120 and 200 words per minute and read them at twice that speed. We invent word games like crosswords, Scrabble,...
The American Detective Who Fought the Kaiser’s Spy Ring and an Anarchist Bombing Syndicate
Jun 25, 2024America in the early twentieth century was rife with threats. Organized crime groups like the Mafia, German spies embedded behind enemy lines ahead of World War I, package bombs sent throughout the co...
Patton’s Tactician: Geoffrey Keys, “The Best Tactical Mind” of WWII
Jun 20, 2024Nineteen months after Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and forced the United States to enter World War II, boats carrying the 7th US Army landed on the shores of southern Sicily. Dubbed Operation...
The Seven Cleopatras Who Ruled Egypt
Jun 18, 2024Behind the legendary, singular figure of Cleopatra stood six other women who bore her name. The infamous Cleopatra we think we know was actually the seventh queen in a long line of powerful female rul...