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Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Every few years, a story about Columbus resurfaces: Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

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25 Of The Biggest Mistakes That Changed The Course Of History

Destroyed centuries of knowledge. Whoopsie.

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24 Times History Got Twisted And People Were Convinced To Believe False Facts, As Shared Online

There are many false historical claims that were never backed by any historical evidence, and this Reddit thread lists some of the most famous ones out there.

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Name Games: Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ Move Flouts History, International Cooperation

The president could just as logically rename the body of water the “Chinese Sea,” one historian argues.

Texas Observer

Ancient bones shed new light on debate over origins of syphilis

Study finds 9,000-year-old remains in Americas hold genomes of bacteria family that causes disease

The Guardian - UK

Climate change could end America's power

America's global hegemony is in rapid, irreversible decline. But what happens after that?

Salon

Best anthropology books, from Jane Goodall to John Green

The history of humanity, what separates between humans and animals, and everything in between

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Japanese band removes ‘outrageous’ music video featuring ape-like natives in song called ‘Columbus’

Mrs Green Apple band apologized, saying they intended to depict ‘life forms of different ages having a home party’

The Independent UK

This 1500-Year-Old Human Poop Sample Reveals Something Strange About Ancient Diets

Mummified poop from pre-Columbian humans Huecoid and Saladoid shows a diet of maize, sweet potato, peanuts, and traces of tobacco and cotton.

Inverse

John M. Crisp: Fly to Mars? Maybe. But why?

Last week NASA announced the names of the four astronauts who will crew Artemis II, a 10-day mission planned for November 2024. The expedition will boost humans out of an Earth-bound orbit for the first time since 1972 and put them into orbit around the moon, in preparation for subsequent…

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Commentary: End the romance of Thanksgiving, as a great Pequot scholar argued 2 centuries ago

In November 1620 the Mayflower deposited about 100 Pilgrims at the Wampanoag community of Patuxet, which the newcomers renamed New Plymouth. A year later, the English and Wampanoags enjoyed a three-day feast. For generations, Americans have celebrated that meal as the first Thanksgiving.

Los Angeles Times

Shaquille O’Neal peddles Flat Earth conspiracy theory after claiming he ‘flew straight’ to Australia

‘I drive from coast to coast, and this s**t is flat to me,’ the former NBA star claimed

The Independent UK

Disease experts and historians can’t agree on when syphilis came to Europe

Opinion: The theory syphilis came to Europe from the Americas is wrong, according to ongoing research by paleopathologists, scientists who study skeletal remains for evidence of disease.

Inverse

Manuscripts and art support archaeological evidence that syphilis was in Europe long before explorers could have brought it home from the Americas

That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Suddenly a trans-Atlantic exchange – maize for wheat, tomatoes for apples, tobacco for horses – meant that plants and animals were…

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New Haven's Removal of Columbus Statue from Public Park Isn't a First Amendment Violation

From Friday's decision by Judge Janet C. Hall (D. Conn.) in American Italian Women for Greater New Haven v. City of New Haven: [T]he Columbus statue is government speech and, as such, AIW has no cognizable free speech interest in it. Indeed, the Supreme Court has directly foreclosed such a…

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