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  • Animals in pairs in the rain board a rocket ship, evoking Noah's ark. Fantastic October 1961, Mike Christie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

    What If… Historians Were Honest About Counterfactuals?

    A single choice can branch out to infinite realities.
    by Adam R. Shapiro via Contingent on May 5, 2022
  • Picture of a map in an old history textbook.

    Why Wasn't This in My Textbook?

    In both versions of this question, the assumption is that there’s a pure history out there somewhere, perhaps with answers in the appendix.
    by Adam R. Shapiro via Contingent on February 13, 2022
  • Picture of the outdoor proceedings of the Scopes Trial in 1925.

    Was David Domer Canceled?

    A look in on the first evolution trial.
    by Adam R. Shapiro via Contingent on July 6, 2021
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    The Racist Roots of the Dog Whistle

    Here’s how we came to label the coded language.
    by Adam R. Shapiro via Made By History on August 21, 2020

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A stand from 1925, selling William Jennings Bryan's books, featuring a sign reading "Anti-Evolution League: The Conflict, Hell and The High School"

Why the School Wars Still Rage

From evolution to anti-racism, parents and progressives have clashed for a century over who gets to tell our origin stories.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on March 10, 2022
The evolution of man figures, redacted, crossed out.

The Conservative War on Education That Failed

A century ago, the most effective school-ban campaign in American history set the pattern: noise and fear, but not much change in what schools actually teach.
by Adam Laats via The Atlantic on November 23, 2021
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