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
Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print ~humanities.languages Link 9 votes
Hidden for seventy years, a new invaluable contribution to Holocaust literature—the diary of Renia Spiegel—was rediscovered inside a desk in New York ~humanities.history Article 2975 words 13 votes
The oldest true stories in the world ~humanities.history Article 1798 words, published Oct 18 2018 6 votes
Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing ~humanities.languages Article 2205 words 5 votes
To heil, or not to heil, when traveling in the Third Reich ~humanities.history Article 4343 words 6 votes
Philadelphia threw a WWI parade that gave thousands of onlookers the flu ~humanities.history Article 1709 words 9 votes
A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did ~humanities.history Article 1134 words 6 votes
How the English language became such a mess ~humanities.languages Article 1284 words, published Jun 10 2015 11 votes
After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus ~humanities.history Article 652 words 27 votes
Ottawa to declare federal holiday to mark legacy of residential school system education history Article 815 words 7 votes
The spy who licked me: Inside the CIA’s cat espionage fail ~humanities.history Article 458 words, published Aug 8 2018 7 votes
Since the 1960s, dictionaries have cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. ~humanities.languages Article 2193 words 9 votes
Earliest version of our alphabet possibly discovered ~humanities.languages Article 976 words, published May 16 2018 6 votes
Hiroshima - a 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing and its aftermath ~humanities.history Article 9 votes
Three myths most Americans believe (Japanese surrender in WW2, Cold War, nuclear bomb threat) ~humanities.history Video 29:09, published May 22 2016 7 votes
Bear necessities: The big brown bear who helped Polish troops in WWII ~humanities.history Article 444 words 4 votes
The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced in the form of a new book ~humanities.history Article 727 words, published May 3 2018 3 votes