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The Medieval Dance of Death
A study of Dance of Death artworks, from the murals of Lubeck and Tallinn to Berlin, Basel, Paris, London, and Denmark,…
The Meme-ification of the Demon Core
Historian Alex Wellerstein traces how the 1946 criticality accident involving the Demon Core turned from a tragic lab mi…
The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things
A growing online collection of ridiculously interesting art, objects, ideas, and history, curated like a museum for brow…
The Names of All Manner of Hounds
A name generator drawing on the 1,065 dog names recorded in a fifteenth-century manuscript, so your pup can answer to a…
The Old Robots Web Site
A nostalgic collection of robot pictures and history from the 1950s through the 1990s, celebrating the first wave of rob…
The Opera Game: A Chess Story
An interactive novelization of Paul Morphy's famous Opera Game, retelling a chess match as a story about revolution as y…
The past was not that cute
A thoughtful essay arguing that pretty vintage aesthetics are not history, and that romanticizing the past erases how ha…
The Public Domain Review
Curated essays and collections showcasing art, books and film that have entered the public domain.
The Record
Enter your birth date to see over 600 major world events you lived through, from wars and elections to breakthroughs, si…
The Remarkable Story of Ona Judge
An essay from the White House Historical Association on Ona Judge, who was born into slavery at Mount Vernon, served the…
The Remote Lounge NYC
A look back at a retro-futuristic New York bar where patrons sat before screens and remote-controlled cameras to watch e…
The Scholar's Stage
Long essays on history, politics, culture, and strategy, with a particular focus on East and Southeast Asian affairs and…
The Secret Annex
An interactive 3D tour of the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank hid for more than two years during World War I…
The Seventeen Deaths That Changed Iran
An interview with photographer Azadeh Akhlaghi about her staged, cinematic reconstructions of seventeen deaths that shap…
The Signal Box
A deep archive on British railway signalling, explaining how signal boxes, levers, and safety systems once controlled tr…
The Silk Roads Experience
A choose-your-own-route journey along the Silk Roads through Eurasia, where each choice shapes the history you encounter…
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The official archive site of Philip Zimbardo's famous 1971 study, with photos, audio, and documents on how ordinary peop…
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The Third Atomic Bomb
Hidden History digs into the US plans to drop a third atomic bomb on Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the narrow…
The Treeographer
A collection of true stories about significant and symbolic trees around the world, from sacred cedars to historic oaks,…
The Unwritten Record
The National Archives blog on its film, photo, sound, and map holdings, with stories about fascinating finds, preservati…
The Victorian Web
A vast scholarly web of essays and images on the Victorian era, linking social history, science, art, architecture and a…
The Vintage News
A nostalgia-driven site collecting stories of old pop culture, iconic moments, trends, and the personalities that shaped…
The Whippet
McKinley Valentine's newsletter for the terminally curious, full of science, history and weird facts with no contemporar…
The World's Most Dangerous Toy Edition
A short, entertaining look at fun and danger through 1970s toy airplanes, the hazardous playthings kids once flew around…
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