America is Going Through Its Every-80-Year Reinvention

By Tamar SchwartzMay 20, 2025May 20, 2025 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: America is Going Through Its Every-80-Year Reinvention: Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we’re witnessing today – and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle by Peter Leyden on his The Great Progression Substack on April 1, 2025.

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By Tamar SchwartzMay 16, 2025May 16, 2025 History

Click Here to Read: Isaac Abarbanel: This medieval Bible commentator and royal financier spent much of his later years on the run By My Jewish Learning.

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Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History

By Tamar SchwartzMay 16, 2025May 16, 2025 History, Science

Click Here to Read: Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History by Michael Natale on the AOL News on May 14, 2025.

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A Fingerprint Taken From Stonehenge Changes Everything We Know About Its Mystical Origins

By Tamar SchwartzApril 28, 2025April 28, 2025 History, Science

Click Here to Read: A Fingerprint Taken From Stonehenge Changes Everything We Know About Its Mystical Origins: Here’s how scientists unlocked new hidden secrets of the iconic monument. By Tim Newcomb on the Popular Mechanics website on April 23, 2025.

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Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History

By Tamar SchwartzApril 17, 2025April 17, 2025 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Archaeology Can Now Tell Us How People Have Muffled and Challenged Economic Inequality Across History By Gary M. Feinman in the Independent Media Newsletter.

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Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 13, 2025February 13, 2025 History, Science

Click Here to Read: Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest: Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards By Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro and Belém, Brazil on the Guardian website on February 6, 2025.

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Cecile Richards, a Dynamic Leader of Planned Parenthood, Dies at 67

By Tamar SchwartzJanuary 24, 2025January 24, 2025 History, Politics

Click Here to Read: Cecile Richards, a Dynamic Leader of Planned Parenthood, Dies at 67: She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018 by By Penelope Green and Remy Tumin in the New York Times on January 20, 2025.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden pose for a photo with Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, and her husband Kirk Adams after awarding Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, November 20, 2024, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Erin Scott)Image: The White House, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.