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Letter from Boston July/August 2026
In the Shadow of Bunker Hill
The forgotten lives of the townspeople who lost everything in the early days of the American Revolution
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Letter from Bulgaria May/June 2026
Capitals of Khans and Tsars
The untold story of how the Bulgarian Empire challenged medieval Europe’s great powers
Letter from Wisconsin March/April 2026
People of the Sacred Voice
The Ho-Chunk Nation safeguards a legacy that includes an underwater cache of ancient canoes
Letter from France January/February 2026
Neolithic Cultural Revolution
How farmers came together to build Europe’s most grandiose funerary monuments some 7,000 years ago
Letter from Mongolia November/December 2025
Building the Black City
Why the nomads of the Uighur Empire constructed a medieval urban center like no other
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Letter from Greece September/October 2025
Searching for Washingtonia
How archaeologists located a forgotten nineteenth-century utopian community
Albert Sarvis -
Letter from Williamsburg July/August 2025
A New Look at an Old City
Archaeologists are reconstructing the complicated 400-year history of Virginia’s colonial capital
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Letter From Albania May/June 2025
The Many Fortresses of Ali Pasha
How a father and son are documenting the architectural legacy of a renegade nineteenth-century warlord
Andronira Burda -
Letter from the Levant March/April 2025
On the Origin of the Pork Taboo
Exploring ancient people’s shifting beliefs about rearing and eating pigs
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Letter from Uzbekistan January/February 2025
An Oasis City’s Origin Story
Searching for the earliest history of a fabled Silk Road metropolis
Sören Stark -
Letter from Poland November/December 2024
Remembering an Unspeakable Crime
Excavations of a mass grave expose evidence of Nazi-era massacres
Courtesy Dawid Kobiałka