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When did people start using the phrase to refer to a group of two or more?

“No harm if true; but, in fact, not true.”

What would the French Revolution have looked like on Twitter?

Armed with footnotes, we can save democracy.

How Louisa May Alcott found a niche in observing the world around her.

AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.

The first newspapers contained not high-minded journalism, but hundreds of readers’ letters exchanging news with one another.

A brief history (and celebration) of the apex of human civilization.

On the cancelling of Charles Lindbergh.

Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.

What would an American dictionary meen for the men and wimmen of America?

Southern newspapers played a major role in racial violence. Do they owe their communities an apology?

One of TV's most famous families laughed off measles in the 1960s. The episode has resurfaced in battles over measles vaccinations today.

How shock jock comedy gave way to Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

The impact of Columbine on today's youths -- and how the media has shifted its coverage of school shootings.

Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”

His failed attempts to bring the Emmett Till tragedy to television forced him to get creative.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

The term “miscegenation” was coined in an 1864 pamphlet by an anonymous author. It turned out to be an anti-abolition hoax.

On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Harvard students and faculty reflect on being the first users of Earth's largest social network.

In modern democracies, who gets to determine what counts as truth—an elite of experts or the people as a whole?

Sixty years ago, the romantic victory of the young Cuban revolutionaries amazed the world—and led to a surreal evening on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”

Brothel guides’ descriptions of brothelgoers asked that if respectable men could enjoy sexual pleasure for sale in American cities, why couldn’t their readers?

Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”

Or better put, why is it something so many outside of the South have recently adopted?

When the white-supremacist group terrorized the South during Reconstruction, many people denied that it even existed.

Commentators compared the Nazi leader to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon, and Nebuchadnezzar.

30 years ago, it was a huge fire in Yellowstone National Park that stoked media attention and political controversy.

The call to “speak English” in America has a long history that often drowns out our even longer history of diverse language use.