Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue ~humanities.history Link 6 votes
World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip ~humanities.history Article 1944 words 7 votes
Salvage of the century: The lost WWII gold of HMS Edinburgh ~humanities.history Video 41:51, published Feb 29 2024 10 votes
Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives ~humanities.history Article 482 words 9 votes
The decimal point is 150 years older than previously thought, medieval manuscript reveals ~humanities.languages Article 560 words 16 votes
How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940) ~humanities.history Video 46:49 13 votes
American Bar Association calls for US courts to find a different word than master, citing history and negative associations history Article 434 words 28 votes
Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage ~humanities.history Article 570 words 12 votes
What happened to David Graeber? anthropology history Article 2859 words, published Jan 20 2024 6 votes
Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue ~humanities.history Article 660 words 11 votes
The first US Army Christmas: Washington and the Hessians ~humanities.history Article 2240 words 8 votes
Thunderplump: Ten weird and wonderful words with Susie Dent ~humanities.languages Video 15:10 5 votes
Sinking the Blücher: How an outdated fort stopped the WWII Invasion of Norway ~humanities.history Video 34:48 13 votes
Rise of Napoleon's Old Guard (1789-1803) (part 1) | Units of History ~humanities.history Video 23:10 9 votes
Ordering off a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian menu ~humanities.history Article 1816 words, published Nov 3 2023 21 votes
Bowling in the 1700’s? - Full "Skittles" gameplay | Engineering America ~humanities.history Video 11:08 4 votes
Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years. ~humanities.languages Article 382 words 18 votes
Wreckage likely belonging to a British submarine that sank during World War II was found off the coast of Norway ~humanities.history Article 403 words 13 votes
Why the Early Modern Period is the most underrated era in European history ~humanities.history Video 16:38 5 votes
The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network ~humanities.history Article 1322 words, published Jun 29 2023 7 votes
How languages steal words from each other ~humanities.languages Video 5:04, published Sep 18 2023 10 votes
Haitian scholar was early path-breaking anthropologist anthropology history Article 1347 words, published May 17 2023 7 votes
Norway remembers its wartime debt to Dumfries – special relationship being marked with the unveiling of a one-and-a-half tonne stone of friendship ~humanities.history Article 604 words 3 votes
A wrong turn in fog off the California coast led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history ~humanities.history Article 12 124 words, published Aug 22 2023 8 votes
Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s ~humanities.languages Article 875 words, published Nov 29 2022 69 votes
True size of a Spartan army - The real source of its strength ~humanities.history Video 36:35 9 votes
Scenes from a fallen empire: Abandoned Russian bases dot Mongolia’s border ~humanities.history Article 1314 words 16 votes
A brief overview of Shibboleths, including their use during WW2 ~humanities.languages Video 3:38 9 votes
The Battle of Fishkill: When Domenic Broccoli set out to expand his restaurant empire in upstate New York, he didn’t expect to find a grave site — or start a war ~humanities.history Article 6174 words 6 votes
Some historians say that the last US Revolutionary War battle was fought in India ~humanities.history Article 14 votes
The Marian reforms weren't a thing ~humanities.history Article 8060 words, published Jun 30 2023 15 votes
The campaign in the desert of North Africa in 1940-1943 mapped ~humanities.history Video 21:02 7 votes