Jesse Steinberg

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Doggerland and Cantre’r Gwaelod: The History and Legends Associated with the Sunken Lands of the British Isles

Doggerland and Cantre’r Gwaelod: The History and Legends Associated with the Sunken Lands of the British Isles

Among the most significant water displacement phenomena in the Western world was Doggerland on the northern European continent. The notable inundation occurred in both a steady and eruptive fashion covering a vast stretch of former tundra, a land...

James Meredith and the Little Rock Nine: The History of the Civil Rights Icons Who Integrated Schools in the South after Brown v. Board of Education

James Meredith and the Little Rock Nine: The History of the Civil Rights Icons Who Integrated Schools in the South after Brown v. Board of Education

For millions of kids, high school is a tumultuous time, with social highs and lows, academic pressure, and extracurricular wins and losses, but for the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend a previously segregated high school...

Ur and Uruk: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Sumerians’ Two Most Important Cities

Ur and Uruk: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Sumerians’ Two Most Important Cities

In southern Iraq, a crushing silence hangs over the dunes. For nearly 5,000 years, the sands of the Iraqi desert have held the remains of the oldest known civilization: the Sumerians. When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform...