A child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas Eve was never the same. ~humanities.history Article 1361 words 8 votes
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first US Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later. ~humanities.history Article 1774 words 8 votes
As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace & outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it education.higher Article 80 words, published Sep 6 2021 16 votes
Was Wilhelm Wundt a "Nazi"?: Volkerpsychologie, Racism and Anti-Semitism by Adrian Brock ~humanities.history Article 328 words 1 vote
Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II, dies at 95 ~humanities.history Article 1253 words 7 votes
Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years ~humanities.history Article 411 words 8 votes
The Million Man March: Powerful images of Black men and brotherhood twenty-five years ago ~humanities.history Article 571 words 9 votes
Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems ~humanities.history Article 1239 words 7 votes
In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria ~humanities.history Article 1187 words 4 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
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
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
Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in 1887 to expose the horrors of an insane asylum ~humanities.history Article 1673 words 9 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
The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume ~humanities.history Article 3313 words, published Feb 27 2019 3 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
William J. Murtagh, ‘pied piper’ of American historic preservation, dies at 95 ~humanities.history Article 1582 words 3 votes
How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow ~humanities.history Article 1391 words 8 votes
As Harvard’s admissions policy goes on trial, alleged victims of racial bias remain anonymous education.higher Article 1181 words 3 votes
Tulsa, Oklahoma mayor reopens investigation into possible mass graves from 1921 race massacre ~humanities.history Article 769 words 4 votes
Why Tibetan Buddhism is facing up to its own abuse scandal theology religion Article 231 words 9 votes
Koko, the beloved gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died ~humanities.languages Article 957 words 15 votes