Letters From
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 Australia November/December 2022
Murder Islands
The doomed voyage of a seventeenth-century merchant ship ended in mutiny and mayhem
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Letter from Germany September/October 2022
Berlin's Medieval Origins
In the midst of modern construction, archaeologists search for evidence of the city’s earliest days
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Letter from Georgia July/August 2022
Soaring With Stone Eagles
A complex of Native American rock mounds bears witness to the endurance of ancient traditions
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Letter from the Bay Area May/June 2022
California's Coastal Homelands
How Native Americans defied Spanish missionaries and preserved their way of life
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Letter from Doggerland March/April 2022
Mapping a Vanished Landscape
Evidence of a lost Mesolithic world lies deep beneath the dark waters of the North Sea
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Letter from the Galapagos Islands January/February 2022
Transforming the Enchanted Isles
Archaeologists uncover the remote archipelago’s forgotten human history
(Courtesy Historical Ecology of the Galapagos Islands Project)