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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Why Every Photograph You Take Is a Historical Document

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 There is a photograph taken in 1900 of a street in a small American town. Nothing special is happening in it. People are walking. A horse a...

The Most Important Historical Documents Were Written by Ordinary People

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 Anne Frank was a thirteen year old girl hiding in an attic. She was not a historian. She was not a writer by profession. She was not famous...

History Has Always Belonged to the Powerful but Technology Just Changed That

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 For most of human history only certain people got to decide what was worth remembering. Kings decided. Governments decided. Churches decide...
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