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Letter from Ireland September/October 2026
A War Between Friends
How IRA volunteers survived the Irish Civil War in a secret mountain hideout
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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
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
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Letter from El Salvador November/December 2023
Uneasy Allies
Archaeologists discover a long-forgotten capital where Indigenous peoples and Spanish colonists arrived at a fraught coexistence
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Letter from Vesuvius September/October 2023
Digging on the Dark Side of the Volcano
Survivors of the infamous disaster rebuilt their lives on the ashes of the a.d. 79 eruption
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Letter from Patagonia July/August 2023
Surviving a Windswept Land
For 13,000 years, hunter-gatherers thrived in some of the world’s harshest environments
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Letter from the American Southeast May/June 2023
Spartans of the Lower Mississippi
Unearthing evidence of defiance and resilience in the homeland of the Chickasaw
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Letter from the Faroes March/April 2023
Lost History of the Sheep Islands
New evidence shows that the remote North Atlantic archipelago was settled hundreds of years before the Vikings reached its shores
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Letter from Ethiopia January/February 2023
Exploring a Forgotten Jewish Land
Using oral history, texts, and survey, archaeologists search for traces of a once-vibrant religious community
(Courtesy JewsEast Research Project)