'A present from Norway and it's dead' – Christmas tree unites London in dismay ~life Article 748 words 8 votes
Finland marks 80th anniversary of brutal conflict with the Soviet Union ~humanities.history Link 3 votes
Ukraine has become the 100th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration – a Norwegian initiative to make schools safer even during war ~life education Article 745 words 10 votes
From an Oslo forest comes the Christmas gift Norway gives Britain every year – a towering tree for London's Trafalgar Square ~life Article 207 words 7 votes
Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa ~humanities.history Article 359 words, published Nov 8 2019 5 votes
The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war ~humanities.history Article 1600 words, published Nov 5 2019 8 votes
Atlantic Council has published an update to their 2016 Global Risks 2035 report, analyzing geopolitical and technological trends and their potential impacts on the future ~news usa china politics.usa Article 4820 words 7 votes
Killing time during the Trojan War with Ajax and Achilles | Curator's Corner S05 E10 ~humanities.history Video 10:27 4 votes
Twelve hours. Four Syrian hospitals bombed. One culprit: Russia. ~news syria russia Article 1491 words 12 votes
Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper ~humanities nsfw Article 5673 words, published Jan 1 2019 7 votes
Turkey begins military offensive in Syria, days after Trump announced pullback of US troops ~news syria usa turkey Article 16 votes
'Manhattan of the desert': Civil war puts Yemen's ancient skyscrapers at risk ~humanities archaeology Article 1511 words 6 votes
Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting ~humanities.history Article 1461 words 15 votes
US drone strike kills thirty pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan ~news afghanistan usa Article 624 words 8 votes
Denmark honours Bernhard Arp Sindberg who rescued thousands of Chinese during the Japanese imperial army's orgy of violence in Nanjing in 1937 ~humanities.history Article 1005 words 6 votes
Navajo code talkers: The last of the living WWII heroes share their stories ~humanities.history Article 926 words, published Nov 27 2017 11 votes
Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
Not with a Bang, but a Letter: How Violet Evergarden rewrites traditional World War I narratives ~anime Article 2534 words 3 votes
Torn apart by the Syrian war, these siblings struggle to stay connected across 6 different countries ~life family relationships Article 2284 words 6 votes
Trump approves strikes on Iran, but then abruptly pulls back ~news usa iran politics.usa Article 1253 words 20 votes
A Japanese American newspaper chronicles the ‘searing’ history of immigrant incarceration ~humanities.history Article 1410 words 8 votes
What Game of Thrones got wrong about firebombing ~tv Article 1841 words, published May 19 2019 11 votes
A botched decolonization: Inside Cameroon’s civil war ~life Article 1955 words, published May 13 2019 6 votes
US Navy SEALs were warned against reporting their chief for war crimes ~news usa crime.war Article 2616 words 10 votes
The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution. ~humanities.history Article 1852 words 10 votes
Seven decades after the bomb, children of Hiroshima victims still worry about hidden health effects ~health Article 929 words 8 votes
From 2003 to 2007 a 24 year old Iraqi woman in Baghdad kept an online diary. In chronicling life under occupation the blogger "Riverbend" gave a perspective largely missing from English media. ~life Link 15 votes
Anybody's son will do: The process by which civilians are turned into soldiers, people who kill other people. (1983) ~misc Video 54:27, published Aug 29 2012 10 votes
The top six medical inventions during the American civil war ~humanities.history Article 1732 words, published Jan 28 2019 9 votes
As mainstream journalists acknowledge Douma attacks were likely "staged," the "humanitarian" Syria Regime-Change Network tries to save a sinking ship ~news syria journalism Article 2620 words, published Feb 18 2019 2 votes
Revolutionary War fighting ended in 1781. The last shots exploded two months ago. ~humanities.history Article 2156 words 10 votes
This land is meant only for saffron. Without it, it means nothing. ~food history Article 2971 words, published Feb 13 2019 10 votes
Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy - An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald ~humanities.history Article 6 votes
Kindertransport children to get 2,500 euros in compensation from German government ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
A brief history of US dirty wars in Central America that set the stage for the refugee crisis ~humanities.history Video 9:24, published Dec 2 2018 4 votes
The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise? ~humanities.history Article 7325 words, published Nov 28 2018 20 votes
Who’s behind that beard? Historians are using facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs ~humanities.history Article 1195 words 8 votes
One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche ~humanities.history Article 3827 words 6 votes
At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee ~humanities.history Article 3501 words, published Oct 23 2018 9 votes