History
Turning Points, Re-examined
Three famous stories, taken apart and put back the right way
Rome · Plague · Print · 3 chapters · 9 min read
Three famous stories, and what the evidence says instead.
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The Stories Everyone Knows
- 01Rome Did Not Fall in a DayOn a date that was chosen much later, by people who needed one.
- 02The Black Death and the Price of LabourOn the same shock producing opposite results two hundred miles apart.
- 03The Press, and What It Actually ChangedOn a technology that first made old books cheap and only later made new ones possible.