The Viking Slave Trade Was Bigger Than Their Raids
Norse traders moved more human cargo across Europe and into the Islamic world than any other group of the era. The longships carried people, not just plunder. Men,…
Read MoreHow Colonial Powers Destroyed Indigenous Historical Records
History is written by the victors. But what happens when the victors don’t just write their own version, they burn yours first? This is the story of one…
Read MoreThe Dark Economics of the Slave Trade
In 1781, the captain of a British slave ship called the Zong ordered 133 enslaved Africans thrown overboard into the Atlantic Ocean. Not because of a storm. Not…
Read MoreThe Witch Trials Were About Land, Money and Revenge
Salem was not a story about Puritans being strange, superstitious, and primitive. It was a story about human beings doing what human beings have always done with access…
Read MoreHistory’s Most Brutal Execution Methods
Before the first axe fell, the crowd already knew what was happening. That was the point. Every execution in history was, above all else, a performance. The scaffold…
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