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In case you missed any of them, here are all of the articles we highlighted in April.

• Why Did American Colonists Become United Against England?
• The untold story of ordinary black southerners’ litigation during the Jim Crow eraHow
• Did Easter Become an Important Celebration?
• Swinging in the Sun: The History and Business of Spring Baseball
• White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities
  
• Falklands War was ‘nearly a disaster’
  
• Why was Napoleon defeated at Waterloo?
  
• 8 Viking myths busted
  
• Imperial History Wars
  
• Eisenhower Ended the Korean War in 1953. Trump Could Learn From His Approach.
  
• What was the impact of Charles VIIIs invasion of Italy (1494) on the Renaissance?
  
• Who killed Martin Luther King Jr.? His family believes James Earl Ray was framed.
  
• How did the Bubonic Plague make the Italian Renaissance possible?
  
• Arthur, Catherine and Henry: a story of early Tudor triumph and tragedy
  
• By the 18th century castles were more likely to be invaded by tourists than soldiers
  
• Lyndon Johnson left office as a deeply unpopular president. So why is he so admired today?
  
• How Did Spy Services Develop in England
  
• How diligent research revealed the identity of the Gettysburg Devil’s Den ‘sharpshooter’
• Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
• Re-discovering Igor Stravinsky’s Chant funèbre after its disappearance over 100 years ago
• The Origins of Drone Warfare
• Why were Christian Scientists prosecuted for practicing medicine in the 19th Century?
• What Are the Origins of Egyptology?
• How Was the Lighthouse of Alexandria Destroyed?
• The British, Irish and Lebanese have all claimed descent from the ancient Phoenicians, but ancient Phoenicia never existed.
• April 1917: the end of American neutrality in WWI
• Did Governments try to Make it Rain? – Interview with Kristine C. Harper
• Before Americans turned to Buddhism for life hacks, they treated it like a dangerous cult
• This Massacre of Black Soldiers During the Civil War Is Reason Enough to Bring Down the Confederate Statues
• Retiring Chief Wahoo
• How did World War II Lead to the Cold War?
• What role did the de Medici family play in the Renaissance?
• 1968 Baseball’s Opening Day and Dr. King
• Seizing the Initiative: the Origins of Direct Democracy in the US
• 5 of the most dangerous spy plane missions in US history
• The Party of Hubert HumphreyMillions of Russians and eastern Europeans now believe that they were better off under communism. What does this mean?
• Joking Aside, Rube Goldberg Got Tech Right
• When did the First Heart Transplant take place?
• Nixon, China and the Power of Ping Pong Diplomacy
• Textbook Racism: How scholars sustained white supremacy
• The Sad, Sad Story of Laika, the Space Dog, and Her One-Way Trip into Orbit
• How did Vatican II change the Catholic Church?
• Napoleon as Emperor was an ill-tempered megalomanic who hobbled France
• What Were the Beliefs of the Samurai?
• Book Review: The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History
• How did the Reformation change Christianity?
• Solving a Medical Mystery with Oral History Traditions
• R.E.M.’s Lifes Rich Pageant and the First Shadows of the Reagan Dusk
• Supreme Court case tests weight of old Native American treaties in 21st century
• What do we really know about Joseph Stalin?
• Max Beckmann: The Faces of World War I
• How did Athens become the leading Greek city-state?
• How did “Stonewall” Jackson die?
• When “Bricklayer Bill” Won the 1917 Boston Marathon, It Was a Victory For All Irish Americans
• How did the marathon emerge?
• How FDR’s Presidency inspired Term Limits
• A Writer at The Atlantic Uses History to Make a Point About the 2016 Election – And Historians Moan
• How Did the German Military Develop Blitzkrieg?
• Why We Doubt Capable Children: Constructing Childhood in the Revolutionary Era
• The holiday village run by Israeli spies
• If not for Vasili Arkhipov – 100s of millions of people could have died
• How did ancient Professional Armies develop?
• The Story of Brownie Wise, the Ingenious Marketer Behind the Tupperware Party
• Hans Asperger ‘Actively Assisted’ Nazi Eugenics Policies, Study Claims
• A brief history of fake doctors, and how they get away with it
• Why did doctors bribe legislators to pass medical licensing laws in Oregon?
• How Did Spy Services Develop in the United States?
• Mark Twain made Ulysses S. Grant an offer he couldn’t Refuse
• So How Should We Think About Sherman’s March?
• How Corporations Harness — and Hijack — the Idea of the Museum
• Why did museums develop?
• The Jews who fought back: the story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• What Was the Importance of Pyramids in Ancient Egypt?
• American Nostalgia on a Bun
• When the Unabomber Was Arrested, One of the Longest Manhunts in FBI History Was Finally Over
• No Reconciliation Without Truth
• What was lynching?
• What is the Bayeux Tapestry and what story does it tell?
• History at Home in the Tenement Museum
• Japan and the 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?
• The strange case of British Colonel Cyril Wilson and the Jihadists
• What is the Deep Impact of Plant Domestication?
• Norman Granz: Revolutionizing jazz for social justice
• A 1938 Nazi Law Forced Jews to Register Their Wealth—Making It Easier to Steal
• How did the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) change England?
• The Feminist Lunch That Broke Boundaries 150 Years Ago

• How Did Early Judicial Systems Evolve?

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