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Independent history writing about the parts of the American record that get skipped. Every claim here is sourced — check the citations and argue with them.

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Ed Gein: The Quiet Man Who Built American Horror

Most people have never heard of Ed Gein, but they’ve met him a hundred times. Every time Norman Bates peers through that motel wall in Psycho, every time Leatherface pulls on someone else’s face in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, every time Buffalo Bill descends into that basement

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