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Gives you a bit over a quarter of the full article, without the pictures, then links to the top of the original article for you to read the rest.

Blogspam. This submission should definitely be changed to that URL.

To be fair the original article is so long that it has chapters. It’s super long read so it’s at least nice to have a shorter version

The linked article is not a shorter version. It is just the first two and a half chapters.

The Atavist is full of articles like this one - in-depth stories about obscure-but-interesting (at least, to me) moments in history. Sort of a cross between Ira Glass and Ken Burns.

No idea what funds this - looks like they were bought by Automattic? But glad it exists. If they were on substack or patreon I would pay.

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