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The Civil War got Ken Burns and 40 million viewers; the Revolution got classroom reels. Here's why the war that founded America was ignored on screen for decades — and what the best documentaries finally got right.
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In 1863, Newton Knight deserted the Confederate Army and organized an interracial guerrilla militia in Mississippi's piney woods — defying conscription, raiding Confederate supply lines, and carving out a rebellion the Confederacy couldn't crush.
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In a booby-trapped Austrian salt mine, a small Allied unit of curators and art historians made a desperate bid to recover five million cultural objects systematically looted by the Nazi regime across occupied Europe.
The Renaissance is synonymous with Florence, but the classical knowledge and cross-cultural synthesis that made it possible were already thriving in Norman Palermo two hundred years before the Medici. Here's how ancient wisdom traveled from Alexandria and Baghdad through Sicily to reshape Western civilization.
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Europa Universalis IV faithfully models the Mongol Empire's fragmentation and nomadic tension, but ignores the empire's most world-altering legacy: catapulting plague-ridden corpses into Caffa and triggering the Black Death that killed up to half of Europe.
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