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
The most famous NYT crossword: 1996 presidential election day ~humanities.history Article 562 words 18 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
The US has never taken responsibility for spraying Agent Orange over Laos during the Vietnam War. Generations of ethnic minorities have endured the consequences. ~humanities.history Article 12 votes
I don't trust police testimony. Is it ethical for me to lie to get on a jury? philosophy ethics Article 20 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
Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on the central Iraqi city of Karbala to commemorate the Shiite holiday of Arbaeen, one of the largest organized gatherings in the world religion Article 381 words 6 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
America’s dark history of killing its own troops with cluster munitions ~humanities.history Article 5998 words 8 votes
Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents ~humanities.history Article 880 words 5 votes
Georgia Gilmore, who fed and funded the Montgomery bus boycott ~humanities.history Article 1323 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
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