In its early days, photography occupied an awkward middle ground between documentation and an art form, a debate which dragged on in the west for decades. The …
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Episode 68: The Russian Empire on the Eve of World War 1
World War I is often described as "the war to end all wars," a global conflagration unprecedented in human society whose outbreak reshaped the face of Europe, …
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Episode 60: Texas and the American Revolution
What role did Texas play in the American revolution? What–Texas? It wasn’t even a state yet! And yet, Spain and its empire–including what is now the Lone Star …
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