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In 1867, Russia sold a vast, thinly governed territory on the edge of North America to the United States for $7.2 million. Critics called it “Seward’s Folly”; within a century, Alaska had become central to American power in the North Pacific. The…
On Sept. 20, 1758, Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born in Saint-Domingue. He became a leading figure in the Haitian Revolution, helped defeat French forces and declared Haiti’s independence in 1804. Editor’s note: This story is part of our “Today in History” series, where The…
To understand contemporary Iran, one must grasp the potency of this neo-nationalist memory. Yet to understand Iran’s actual past, one must untangle this emotional countermyth from the messy realities of imperial violence, political pragmatism, and cultural assimilation. The dissident text…
Onions, sugar, rice: Why India’s food staples have gotten costly Roadblocks to democracy: What’s really at stake when the state restricts transport services? Wave of protests shows that Indian democracy’s greatest strength is its ‘million mutinies’ CEC protest updates: CJP’s…
Explore the «deadliest waterway» in the Pacific Northwest, and how the region has tried to tame it for centuries. The deadly Northwest passageway ships have (somehow) crossed for centuries Tags: History, Curious Northwest, Pacific Ocean