#History

From Root Cellar to Data Logger

Every generation builds new infrastructure to do the same thing: give the culture the right conditions, then get out of the way. The sourdough keeper and fermentation controller are the latest iterati…

The San Quentin Prison Album That Should Have Been a Classic

Ike White’s “Changin’ Times” spans soul, rock, pop and jazz. On its 50th anniversary, it’s finally getting its due.

Audie Murphy | WW2 Soldier Superstar | US History

Why Boeing Flew A Passenger Plane Upside Down

The Virus That Infected Boeing | Nebula Plus

A Second-Century Roman Villa Emerges Beneath Rome's Liceo Cavour

Inside Turkmenistan, the shadowy hermit state that’s slowly opening to tourists

The Empire of Brazil | South American History | Extra History Complete

How to Live amid Civilizational Decline

Italy marks 82 years since Liberation of Rome

Commemorating Our History Under a Historically Ignorant President

How women’s first national vote in Italy forged a Republic

The American Revolution Is Not Complete

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Anesthesia

Speakers of Jesus’s Native Tongue: Syriac Christians & the Endurance of an Ancient Faith

America deserves a better 250th birthday party

Athens Needs Jerusalem—and America Needs Both

Taliban Trojan Horse: The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 2001

May 1940: How Churchill Came to Save Christian Civilization

Italy celebrates 80 years as a Republic on 2 June

The Paris Catacombs are Deeply Misunderstood

And They Were Tomb Mates!

The Pirate Ship Docked in Central London — The Ten Pound Traveller | Nebula Plus

Irish councilor proposes tiny statue of mosquito blamed for killing invader Oliver Cromwell

Vietnamese leader to trace Ho Chi’s footstep in Thailand

The Most Militarised Place On Earth Is Ignored

Can Marriage Survive the Manosphere?

My uncle standing beside his older wife he had recently married, on a beach in Italy (1960) – People used to think they were mother and son. She was late 40s and he was mid 20s. She inherited a lot of money. He may have been a golddigger idk lmao

The Doctor Hitler Feared

How the Mormon Church grew into a global empire

the rotating villain theory

House Republicans advance education bill restricting discussions on racism & gender

“The Way That Abides Forever”: David Bentley Hart’s New Translation of the Tao Te Ching

France to return bodies of Indigenous people exhibited in colonial ‘human zoos’

New DNA analysis raises fresh questions about Christopher Columbus’ origins

How Religious Toleration for the Irish Helped America Win Independence

Opening 80-year-Old WWII US Army C-Ration can with original chocolate, coffee, biscuits, and jam inside

Wrath of the Borgias: Caterina Sforza 3 | Italian History

What Venice Still Has to Teach Us

Venice's thousand-year success offers a powerful lesson in balancing competing forces and the dangers of institutional rigidity in a changing world.

I Was Disappointed With Mount Rushmore

Is Mount Rushmore overrated? Our experience visiting Mount Rushmore in winter, what surprised us, and whether this iconic South Dakota stop is worth it.