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Introducing our Spring 2025 Webinar Series, Books that Changed the National Conversation

Teaching American History

For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. We spent this fall diving into the rhetorical traditions of American politics. So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle.

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The Evolution of European Pigmentation: A Slow, Complex Journey Through Ancient DNA

Anthropology.net

Credit: bioRxiv (2025). Their findings upend traditional assumptions. A Complex, Ongoing Story The history of European pigmentation is far more intricate than previously thought. The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene. Related Research Jablonski, N.G., & Chaplin, G. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801948115

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The Hidden Code of Greenlanders: What Genetics Reveals About Their Ancestry and Health

Anthropology.net

But beneath its frozen surface lies a complex history of human migration, isolation, and adaptation. Their findings not only rewrite the history of Inuit migration but also challenge the Eurocentric lens of modern genetics and medicine. Credit: Nature (2025).

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The Mythological Tapestry of Humanity: Unraveling Ancient Stories through Genes and Geography

Anthropology.net

Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions? “Our results reveal that correlations between mythemes and genetic patterns can be traced back to population movements that pre-date the Last Glacial Maximum,” the authors write, situating storytelling at the core of human history.

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When Did Humans Start Talking? Genomic Evidence Pushes Language Back to 135,000 Years Ago

Anthropology.net

We see a lag between when the genetic evidence tells us language capacity was present and when symbolic artifacts appear in the record," notes Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study. Fossils do not speak, and ancient DNA does not carry recordings of conversations.

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CFP: Lost In Time: Intellectual History before the Guillotine

Society for Classical Studies

The 1st Lost In Time interdisciplinary intellectual history conference offers a platform for scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in concepts and their contexts, which have not traditionally predominated within intellectual history.

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The Lapedo Child: A 28,000-Year-Old Mystery Reshaped by Science

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This confirms that the Lapedo Child lived thousands of years earlier than some prior estimates and aligns the burial with other Gravettian mortuary traditions across Europe. A precise date of 27,780 to 28,550 years before present (cal B.P.) , placing the burial firmly within the Gravettian period of the Upper Paleolithic. 1 Linscott, B.,