Throughout the night of November 8th, my sleep was pierced by the smell of a burning forest. It is a familiar scent to me, something I associate with working as a wildland firefighter in California, New Mexico, and Arizona. In […]
On December 18, 1860, John J. Crittenden of Kentucky introduced a compromise plan to the U.S. Senate. Just two days later, South Carolina would become the first state to secede from the Union, and within six weeks, six more Southern
An example of the American Pedometer with the decimal face and original packaging From the author’s collection On December 22, 1860, the Vincennes Gazette, an Indiana weekly paper, ran the following anecdote: A lady who had read of the extensive
The History List Store Boston Under Siege: Henry Pelham’s Boston 1775-1776 colored aquatint map in an archival, full-sized print “A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs, Including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brooklin[e], Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, Parts of Malden,
October 21, 2024 On this International Day of Archaeology, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) reflects on nearly half-a-century of archaeological education as we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of Canada’s most storied archaeological programs, the Boyd
A 150 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton that’s twice the length of a school bus has just been sold for more than $6 million at an auction in France — becoming the largest dinosaur fossil to ever go under the hammer. The
The Curtiss-Wright Corporation came into being in 1929 through the merger of companies started by pioneering aviators Glenn Curtiss and the Wright brothers. Within the new company, the Curtiss-Wright airplane division made airplanes while the Wright Aeronautical Corporation focused on
The late Bernard Bailyn, former AHA president, was featured in the November 11 edition of Peter Coy’s New York Times newsletter. For the “Quote of the Day,” Coy chose a passage from Bailyn’s presidential address at the 1981 AHA annual
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The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University has unveiled a groundbreaking exhibition, Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain, showcasing the rich cultural and artistic heritage of the Umayyad caliphate in tenth-century
