Dec 04 Zig-zag on ancient shell may rewrite art and human history By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy On a prehistoric white shell fossil from the island of Java, tiny zig-zag shaped scratches may etch out the beginning of art history, and rewrite our human history. A study published in Nature this week found that the markings on… Continue reading
Dec 02 DNA all but confirms 500-year-old bones are King Richard III’s By Lorna Baldwin A 500-year-old cold case is nearing its conclusion. British scientists have determined with "99.999 percent" accuracy that the remains of King Richard III of England really were lying under a municipal parking lot in the central English city of Leicester. Continue reading
Nov 17 Watch McCain offers portrait of America at war through the lives of its heroes By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 16 Napoleon’s famed two-cornered hat sold at auction for $2.4 million By Andrew Mach Napoleon Bonaparte's trademark bicorn hat sold at auction near Paris on Sunday for roughly $2.4 million. Continue reading
Nov 15 Watch Family history comes to life: Dress designs lost in Holocaust uncovered By PBS News Hour When the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, tens of thousands of Jews applied for visas to anywhere. Among them, Paul Strnad and his wife Hedy, a dress designer. Ultimately, neither would get a visa to leave Czechoslovakia. Now, in an… Continue watching
Nov 11 Watch Cosbys host ‘conversation’ of African-American artworks at the Smithsonian By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 15 Watch 7:25 Did air conditioning play a role in Reagan’s election? Searching for ripple effects of history-making tech By PBS News Hour In the new book and PBS series “How We Got to Now,” Steven Johnson presents six game-changing innovations and how they shaped the modern world. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Johnson about surprising connections between invention and American society. Continue watching
Oct 08 Watch Why George Washington — not Lincoln of FDR — had the hardest job of any U.S. president By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch Remembering Lady Bird Johnson’s whistle-stop tour for civil rights By PBS News Hour Fifty years ago, in October 1964, less than a month before the presidential elections, Lady Bird Johnson boarded a train in Washington to stump through eight Southern states -- a gamble to help win back disaffected voters after the passage… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Hundreds turn out to protest Jefferson County School Board By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching