America’s dark history of killing its own troops with cluster munitions ~humanities.history Article 5998 words 8 votes
Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him ~humanities.history Article 3434 words 10 votes
The shoals of Ukraine - Where American illusions and great-power politics collide ~humanities.history Article 4324 words 5 votes
‘The day the wall came down’: How the Washington Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall thirty years ago ~humanities.history Article 1812 words 11 votes
The 1619 Project by the New York Times ~humanities.history Article 137 words, published Aug 14 2019 4 votes
Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education education.higher Article 4733 words 8 votes
Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: How Italians became "White" ~humanities.history Article 2219 words 8 votes
Shooting near synagogue in Germany leaves at least two people dead, was streamed on Twitch religion Article 1153 words 11 votes
The 1963 sinking of the Thresher killed 129 men and became history’s deadliest submarine disaster ~humanities.history Article 1516 words 5 votes
West Zealand has given the green light to rebuild a Viking fortress on its original archaeological site, more than 1,000 years after it first stood there ~humanities.history Article 407 words 8 votes
A bronze cauldron dating back to the Roman Age has been unearthed in a burial cairn in central Norway ~humanities.history Article 491 words 10 votes
How the MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein education Article 2669 words 12 votes
This land was our land: The Mississippi Delta's history of Black land theft ~humanities.history Article 7676 words 7 votes
One American import we could do without: hard-right religious conservatism religion Article 802 words 14 votes
Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents ~humanities.history Article 880 words 5 votes
How a historian uncovered Ronald Reagan's 1971 racist remarks to Richard Nixon ~humanities.history Article 2517 words 15 votes
Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in 1887 to expose the horrors of an insane asylum ~humanities.history Article 1673 words 9 votes
Georgia Gilmore, who fed and funded the Montgomery bus boycott ~humanities.history Article 1323 words 5 votes
Inside the radical beliefs of Israel Folau's Truth of Jesus Christ Church, founded by his father Eni religion Article 1402 words 7 votes
An archaeological fairytale – medieval ships found in the heart of Oslo ~humanities.history Article 542 words 5 votes
Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years ~humanities.history Article 495 words 7 votes
A linguist’s case against "socialism": History has made the term vague and unproductive. Should it be retired? linguistics Article 567 words 7 votes
Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games ~humanities.history Article 1044 words 8 votes
The ‘undesirable militants’ behind the Nineteenth Amendment ~humanities.history Article 553 words 6 votes
Atomic veterans were silenced for fifty Years. Now, they’re talking. ~humanities.history Article 765 words, published May 27 2019 8 votes
The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day: More than two dozen US cities claim to the be the “birthplace of Memorial Day" ~humanities.history Article 747 words 7 votes
Defeating the voters: Across the United States, state autocrats are spurning democratic majorities Article 2142 words, published May 14 2019 15 votes
Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands religion theology Article 8092 words 10 votes
Schools are using software to help pick who gets in. What could go wrong? education.higher Article 2525 words 7 votes
Ancient rock art in the plains of India: Two amateur sleuths have uncovered a collection of mysterious rock carvings on the Indian coastal plain south of Mumbai ~humanities.history Article 1897 words 6 votes
‘Deep Sleep’: How an amateur porno set off a massive Federal witch hunt ~humanities.history Article 8013 words 13 votes
LA’s elite on edge as prosecutors pursue more parents in admissions scandal education.higher Article 1446 words 6 votes
Learning my father’s language: I made a vow to teach myself Irish, the language my mother struggled to learn, so that my daughters may learn it too language Article 4495 words 6 votes