The not-so-straight story of the US-Canadian border ~humanities.history Article 1716 words, published Nov 29 2011 7 votes
The endangered languages of New York ~humanities.languages Article 1638 words, published Feb 22 2024 16 votes
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum religion Article 2388 words 22 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
A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC ~humanities.history Article 1424 words 12 votes
As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements ~humanities.history Article 826 words 10 votes
An effort to focus on long overlooked Roma suffering in the Holocaust ~humanities.history Article 1219 words, published Aug 29 2023 30 votes
He spurred a revolution in psychiatry. Then he ‘disappeared.’ ~humanities.history Article 2411 words 7 votes
Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica ~humanities.history Article 1035 words 18 votes
Search for Jimmy Hoffa leads the FBI to Jersey City landfill ~humanities.history Article 1814 words 8 votes
What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre destroyed ~humanities.history Article 1997 words, published May 24 2021 12 votes
For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage ~humanities.history Article 1014 words 10 votes
New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters ~humanities.history Article 1039 words, published Mar 2 2021 4 votes
Napoleon’s brother lived in New Jersey. Here’s what happened to the estate. ~humanities.history Article 1478 words 8 votes
Nobels that some felt weren't so dynamite (1999) ~humanities.history Article 1305 words, published Oct 17 1999 8 votes
Why are we in the West so weird? A theory ~humanities.history Article 1884 words, published Sep 12 2020 6 votes
Ancient Rome was teetering. Then a volcano erupted 6,000 miles away ~humanities.history Article 2010 words, published Jun 22 2020 5 votes
The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime ~humanities.history Article 8171 words 8 votes
President? Why not? Says a man at the top. ~humanities.history Article 1577 words, published Sep 25 1999 1 vote
Charles Coughlin, the 'Radio Priest' who brought fascism to America in the 1930s (1979) ~humanities.history Article 146 words, published Oct 28 1979 7 votes
How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US ~humanities.history Article 2552 words, published Dec 29 2019 5 votes
The 1619 Project by the New York Times ~humanities.history Article 137 words, published Aug 14 2019 4 votes
Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents ~humanities.history Article 880 words 5 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
LA’s elite on edge as prosecutors pursue more parents in admissions scandal education.higher Article 1446 words 6 votes
Return of African artifacts sets a tricky precedent for Europe’s museums ~humanities.history Article 1317 words 5 votes
Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way? ~humanities.languages Article 921 words, published Oct 26 2018 9 votes
We use sports terms all the time. But where do they come from? ~humanities.languages Article 1883 words 7 votes