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  • 2 months ago | smithsonianmag.com | Andrew Lawler

    How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor helped kick-start the southern colonies’ embrace of the radical cause Everyone knows how the redcoats clashed with patriots at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, sparking the American Revolution.

  • Feb 25, 2025 | lithub.com | Andrew Lawler

    A college-educated liberal friend sitting at my kitchen table recently let me in on a secret: the fossil fuel industry is suppressing alien technology that could eliminate our need to burn oil and gas. The revelation is just one of any number of strange tales circulating on social media. From Jewish space lasers to microchips in vaccines, conspiracy theories seem to have gone full mainstream.

  • Feb 10, 2025 | archaeology.org | Andrew Lawler

    Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s most widely consumed animals. They are also widely reviled: For about two billion people, eating pork is explicitly prohibited. The Hebrew Bible and the Islamic Koran both forbid adherents from eating pig flesh, and this ban is one of humanity’s most deeply entrenched dietary restrictions. For centuries, scholars have struggled to find a satisfying explanation for this widespread taboo.

  • Feb 10, 2025 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Andrew Lawler

    Andrew Lawler’s A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis that Spurred the American Revolution focuses on Lord Dunmore, the British governor of Virginia from 1771 through 1775. The “Black allies” referenced in the title are the escaped slaves whom Dunmore recruited into his army by promising freedom to those who fought with him against the rebels. “Perfect frenzy” is how Thomas Jefferson described the reaction of his fellow Virginians to Dunmore’s military actions.

  • Nov 19, 2024 | msn.com | Andrew Lawler

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