One of the few surviving heroes of D-Day shares his story: Army medic Ray Lambert, now 98, landed with the first assault wave on Omaha Beach ~humanities.history Article 2034 words 9 votes
During the Cold War, the CIA secretly plucked a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor using a giant claw ~humanities.history Article 1822 words 8 votes
Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim? ~humanities.history Article 3562 words 7 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
In need of cadavers, 19th-century medical students raided Baltimore’s graves ~humanities.history Article 2010 words 7 votes
Underwater archaeologists may have discovered the oldest known shipwreck in Lake Erie ~humanities.history Article 1587 words 6 votes
Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch. ~humanities.history Article 1114 words 12 votes
Philadelphia threw a WWI parade that gave thousands of onlookers the flu ~humanities.history Article 1709 words 9 votes
How Midwestern suffragists won the vote by attacking immigrants ~humanities.history Article 1703 words 7 votes
What Ötzi the Iceman’s tattoos reveal about copper age medical pactices ~humanities.history Article 525 words 6 votes