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Cocaine, Opium, and the Color Line
The Racist Roots of America's War on Drugs
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Marketing a Myth
The Klan’s Starring Role in "The Birth of a Nation"
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A Dog's Idea of the Ideal Country Estate
The Canine Cartography of John Held Jr
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March 2024

Weird Orgies, Wild Parties, Unleashed Passions
Before gummies... they used big needles
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The Imperialists' Guide to Africa
British tips for carving up a continent
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Who Is Filibus?
Cinema's first gender-fluid, cross-dressing, anti-hero, steampunk, sky pirate.
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Manga, Satire, and Propaganda
Mapping Japan's Worldview in 1932
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February 2024

The God-fearing Map to Hell
A simple lesson from Puritan America
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When the Earth Was Flat
"Map of the Square and Stationary Earth" ~ A Masterpiece of Pseudoscience
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The Snake That Strangled the South
How a Ridiculed Strategy Turned the Tide of the Civil War
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The Face of Nazi Propaganda
Churchill as a monstrous creature losing his grip on the world
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January 2024

Tracing a Tragedy
Greed, Guns, and the Great Bison Slaughter
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