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Ben Tumin

Ben Tumin is a satirist and the creator of Skipped History, a newsletter where he speaks with leading historians about the overlooked and under-examined events, movements, and people that shaped American history. Check out Skipped History on TikTok.
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Climate Crisis Isn't Inevitable. This New Book Lays Out Three Paths for Preventing It.

Malcolm Harris’ What’s Left explains what we can do.
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Santa's Modern Origin Story Is Actually a Tale of Class Control

Christmas used to be known as a season of drunkenness and debauchery.
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What ‘Sex Tests’ at the Olympics Have to Do With the Nazis

Behind the history of discrimination against trans athletes.
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Why Colleges Crack Down on Protestors

Looking back at the 1968 protests at Columbia University.
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Remembering When the Government Kind of Almost Confiscated Guns

Our history could have looked very different.
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What The New Deal Teaches Us About the Current Rise of Fascism

“We are living in another time of testing," says historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.
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The Troubling History Behind Modern Thanksgiving Celebrations

Ben Tumin and Anne Blue Wills discuss the story of how one magazine editor created the annual celebration.
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Progress Isn’t Guaranteed. We Need to Learn From Protests of the Past

Ben Tumin and Vincent Bevins on the important lessons for a new generation of protesters.