Mar 30 Judy Woodruff remembers the day Reagan was shot By Colleen Shalby Thirty-four years ago today, John Hinckley tried to kill President Ronald Reagan. Continue reading
Mar 26 King Richard III of England re-interred 530 years after death By April Brown It’s been more than 500 years since he died, but England’s notorious King Richard III now appears to have a final resting place. Continue reading
Mar 23 Prehistoric hunt suggests humans arrived in North America earlier than previously thought By Laura Santhanam Bone fragments from seven horses and a camel suggest that the First Americans hunted and butchered these animals in North America at least 13,300 years ago after migrating from northeast Asia, hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. Continue reading
Feb 12 America’s first big business? Not the railroads, but slavery By Sven Beckert For too long, historian Sven Beckert argues, historians have depicted slavery as a non-capitalist "Southern pathology." In his new book, "Empire of Cotton," Beckert shows how slavery was actually at the very roots of modern American capitalism. Continue reading
Feb 10 Ancient ceramics show skill sharing, social networking in pre-Columbian era By Shehryar Nabi Studying ancient ceramics shows that social networking and skill-sharing helped pre-Columbian civilizations survive longer. Continue reading
Feb 09 How a simple ‘hello’ became the first message sent via the Internet By Mike McDowall, OZY No fanfare. No cleverly contrived quote for the history books. And yet, at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1969, three months after Neil Armstrong’s famous step, came another giant leap for mankind. Just months after the first manned moon… Continue reading
Feb 08 Forgotten copy of Magna Carta found in UK archive By Daniel Costa-Roberts A rare early copy of the Magna Carta, the medieval English charter that forms the foundation of modern democratic rights, has been found in a Victorian-era scrapbook in Kent County, England. Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch 5:49 San Francisco dancers confront history and human rights through video, text By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 23 The White House broke a State of the Union tradition. Does it matter? By Colleen Shalby On Tuesday, the White House broke a longstanding State of the Union tradition. Rather than distributing an embargoed copy of the President’s speech to the press and press alone, the address was made public on the blogging site Medium… Continue reading
Jan 18 Long-lost audio of Martin Luther King Jr. speech found in UCLA storage room By Carey Reed An audio recording of a speech given by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, long thought to be lost in time, was made available to the masses this week online. Continue reading