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A female historian wrote a book. Two male historians went on NPR to talk about it. They never mentioned her name. It’s Sarah Milov.
(1166 words)
~humanities
- history
- academia
2 comments

thelily.com

11 hours ago

17 votes
Digital Foundry Retro: Turok Dinosaur Hunter - How An N64 Classic Evolved The Console FPS
(38:07)
~games
- history
- n64
0 comments

YouTube: Digital Foundry

16 hours ago

5 votes
Carrhae 53 BC - Roman–Parthian War
(20:40)
~humanities
1 comment

YouTube: Kings and Generals

3 days ago

3 votes
They Called Us Enemy: George Takei has talked about his family’s internment before. But never quite like this.
(905 words)
~books
0 comments

washingtonpost.com

3 days ago

9 votes
History of Hong Kong (Pre-History to Colonial Period)
(13:25)
~humanities
3 comments

YouTube: Invicta

3 days ago

11 votes
What the Measles Epidemic Really Says About America: The return of measles reflects historical amnesia, declining faith in institutions, and a troubling lack of concern for the public good.
(2452 words, Jul 8 2019)
~misc
- usa
- measles
- epidemic
- history
- vaccines
- anti vaxx
0 comments

theatlantic.com

3 days ago

9 votes
India and Sri Lanka's violent fight over fish | Vox Borders
(13:03)
~misc
- videos
- documentaries
- india
- sri lanka
- maritime boundaries
- fishing
- poaching
- economics
- history
- politics
- international conflict
0 comments

YouTube: Vox

5 days ago

2 votes
The Movable Tent Cities of the Ottoman Empire
(753 words, Jul 4 2019)
~humanities
0 comments

jstor.org

5 days ago

11 votes
For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes
(1370 words, Jul 1 2019)
~humanities
- demolition derby
- trains
- usa
- history
0 comments

atlasobscura.com

5 days ago

6 votes
Komsomolets – Norway reportedly detects radioactive leakage from Soviet sub in Arctic
(422 words)
~humanities
- norway
- radioactive
- submarine
- history
1 comment

sputniknews.com

6 days ago

7 votes
Can Animals Commit Crimes?
~humanities
- animals
- crime
- philosophy
- law
- religion
- history
15 comments

YouTube: Historia Civilis

July 8

8 votes
Swedish authorities have announced the first viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years
(495 words)
~humanities
- sweden
- history
- vikings
- burial
0 comments

forbes.com

July 7

7 votes
The secret gay history of Islam. In Muslim cultures, homosexuality was once considered the most normal thing in the world – so what changed?
(1457 words, Oct 13 2017)
~lgbt
- religion
- islam
- history
0 comments

gaystarnews.com

July 7

14 votes
Ancient Indigenous aquaculture site Budj Bim added to UNESCO World Heritage list
(557 words)
~humanities
0 comments

abc.net.au

July 6

8 votes
The Impossible Dream - How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness?
(3388 words)
~humanities
- philosophy
- history
- culture
- long read
0 comments

laphamsquarterly.org

July 6

10 votes
history of the entire world, i guess
(19:26, May 11 2017)
~humanities
- history
- bill wurtz
- humour
- videos
6 comments

YouTube: bill wurtz

July 4

11 votes
Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer
(3155 words)
~tech
- history
- apollo
- hardware
1 comment

righto.com

July 5

9 votes
Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs
~humanities
- history
- 1940s
- israel
3 comments

haaretz.com

July 4

15 votes
Welcome to the world of Manga! #MangaMonth
(6:16)
~anime
- videos
- art
- history
- manga
- genga
- the british museum
- exhibitions
- uk
- japan
0 comments

YouTube: The British Museum

July 4

6 votes
When Workers Stopped Seattle
(3215 words)
~misc
- usa.wa.seattle
- history
- labor
- strikes
- unions
- politics
0 comments

jacobinmag.com

July 4

6 votes
First artistic depiction of little known Exodus story uncovered in Galilee
(1296 words)
~humanities
- biblical
- archaeology
- jodi magness
- religion
- judaism
- history
0 comments

timesofisrael.com

July 2

7 votes
In parts of Europe from the 14th to 19th centuries, some divorces were decided through "Impotence Trials"
(2364 words, Jun 5 2019)
~life
- history
- gender
3 comments

todayifoundout.com

July 2

10 votes
Nardwuar vs. The Roots (Questlove & Black Thought) (2019)
(26:40)
~music
- videos
- interviews
- history
- hip hop
- rap
- soul
- usa.pa.philadelphia
1 comment

cfabbro

July 1

4 votes
Ottoman Wars - Battles of Gorjani and Castelnuovo 1537
(17:18)
~humanities
0 comments

YouTube: Kings and Generals

June 30

8 votes
The Soviet Superplane That Rattled America
(11:14)
~humanities
0 comments

YouTube: Real Engineering

June 30

5 votes
NASA Reopens Apollo Mission Control Room That Once Landed Men on Moon
(1491 words)
~tech
2 comments

nytimes.com

June 30

10 votes
Why Has India Embraced the Far-Right?
(5848 words)
~news
- india
- narendra modi
- hindutva
- nationalism
- history
- politics
- long read
0 comments

tribunemag.co.uk

June 30

12 votes
Vox Borders - How this border transformed a subcontinent | India & Pakistan
(17:21)
~humanities
- history
- pakistan
- religion
- patriotism
- india
- colonialism
7 comments

YouTube: Vox

June 27

13 votes
In the late 1970s, Chinatown restaurants in California started booking some unlikely dinner entertainment: the rowdy young bands of the nascent West Coast punk scene
(1159 words)
~music
- usa.ca
- punk
- history
0 comments

Deimos

June 27

8 votes
I Am a Jewish Arab
(2129 words)
~life
- egypt
- jews
- arabs
- jewish arabs
- religion
- history
0 comments

psmag.com

June 27

9 votes
Was Apollo 11 a Beginning or an End? Fifty years after man walked on the Moon, mankind is still stranded on Earth. That’s not the way it was supposed to be.
(2634 words)
~misc
- nasa
- space
- apollo 11
- moon landing
- history
0 comments

texasmonthly.com

June 27

13 votes
How Ice Cream Got Its Cone
~food
- ice cream
- history
0 comments

seriouseats.com

June 26

5 votes
The Stonewall of the South That History Forgot: A month after the riots in New York, a raid on an Atlanta movie theater sparked a gay liberation movement of its own
(1316 words)
~lgbt
- usa.ga.atlanta
- history
0 comments

smithsonianmag.com

June 25

7 votes
A Crispy, Salty, American History of Fast Food
(2280 words)
~food
- fast food
- usa
- history
0 comments

smithsonianmag.com

June 24

3 votes
Digging Deeper Into Pompeii's Past
(303 words)
~humanities
- pompeii
- archaeology
- history
- italy
2 comments

archaeology.org

June 24

6 votes
Compton's Cafeteria riot: a historic act of trans resistance, three years before Stonewall
~lgbt
0 comments

theguardian.com

June 23

10 votes
Eastern Front of WWII animated: 1944/1945
(17:06)
~humanities
1 comment

YouTube: Eastory

June 23

5 votes
Born out of love and LSD: Pride Flag creator Gilbert Baker tells all in new memoir
(1132 words, Jun 19 2019)
~lgbt
- rainbow flag
- history
0 comments

newnownext.com

June 22

4 votes
A Guide to Roman Latrines
(5:47, Oct 25 2015)
~humanities
0 comments

YouTube: Blue Guides Limited

June 22

7 votes
Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games
(1044 words)
~humanities
- games
- ai
- machine learning
- history
- ludology
3 comments

technologyreview.com

June 21

8 votes
When white supremacists overthrew a government - The Wilmington insurrection of 1898
(12:22)
~humanities
- videos
- history
- politics
- racism
- elections
- coup detat
- race riots
- lynchings
- massacre
- disenfranchisement
- jim crow
- usa.nc
0 comments

YouTube: Vox

June 20

9 votes
YouTube is partnering with Universal Music Group to remaster almost 1000 of the most iconic music videos of all time, with over 100 available now
(516 words)
~music
- music videos
- history
3 comments

Deimos

June 19

12 votes
Is It Time for Truth and Reconciliation in the U.S.?
(1255 words, Feb 16 2014)
~misc
- usa
- history
- racism
- slavery
- genocide
- native americans
- african americans
- reconciliation
0 comments

yesmagazine.org

June 20

9 votes
Varangians - Elite Bodyguards of the Byzantine Emperors
(15:49, Jun 13 2019)
~humanities
0 comments

YouTube: Kings and Generals

June 19

6 votes
Juneteenth Returns to Its Roots
(497 words)
~humanities
- history
- usa
- juneteenth
0 comments

theatlantic.com

June 19

6 votes
This Land Is Whose Land? Indian Country and the Shortcomings of Settler Protest
(2937 words, Jun 14 2019)
~misc
- usa
- music
- woody guthrie
- this land is your land
- native americans
- history
- racism
- activism
- politics
- long read
0 comments

si.edu

June 18

4 votes
Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph
~science
1 comment

fermatslibrary.com

June 18

6 votes
A Brief History of the Movie-Summarizing End-Credits Rap
(1839 words)
~music
- soundtrack
- rap
- hip hop
- film music
- history
0 comments

KapteinB

June 16

3 votes
When the Māori First Settled New Zealand, They Hunted Flightless, 500-Pound Birds
(1041 words)
~humanities
- moa
- dinosaur
- maori
- food
- new zealand
- extinctions
- history
0 comments

atlasobscura.com

June 16

12 votes
The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games
(1525 words)
~games
- history
- arcade
- russia
0 comments

arcadeblogger.com

June 16

7 votes

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