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73184fabb328f34da8d68b762ccf2265 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lost-city-cambodia-180958508/ | The Lost City of Cambodia | The Lost City of Cambodia
Jean-Baptiste Chevance senses that we’re closing in on our target. Paused in a jungle clearing in northwestern Cambodia, the French archaeologist studies his GPS and mops the sweat from his forehead with a bandanna. The temperature is pushing 95, and the equatorial sun beats down through the f... |
104b148f4f299f0930fab7897f2c5066 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lost-history-yellowstone-180976518/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210105-daily-responsive&spMailingID=44215152&spUserID=OTkzMDk3MzE4ODk5S0&spJobID=1920403648&spReportId=MTkyMDQwMzY0OAS2 | After 14 summers excavating in Yellowstone National Park, Doug MacDonald has a simple rule of thumb. “Pretty much anywhere you’d want to pitch a tent, there are artifacts,” he says, holding up a 3,000-year-old obsidian projectile point that his team has just dug out of the ground. “Like us, Native Americans liked to ca... | |
74868f026a8814a4015c9b7b0f834683 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lovers-shanxi-saved-chinas-ancient-architectural-treasures-before-lost-forever-180961424/ | The Couple Who Saved China’s Ancient Architectural Treasures Before They Were Lost Forever | The Couple Who Saved China’s Ancient Architectural Treasures Before They Were Lost Forever
Architectural preservation is rarely so thrilling as it was in 1930s China. As the country teetered on the edge of war and revolution, a handful of obsessive scholars were making adventurous expeditions into the country’s vast ru... |
1d3f5066f85253f15de98bd96adf6c1a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lunch-atop-a-skyscraper-photograph-the-story-behind-the-famous-shot-43931148/?no-ist | NYC | NYC
On September 20, 1932, high above 41st Street in Manhattan, 11 ironworkers took part in a daring publicity stunt. The men were accustomed to walking along the girders of the RCA building (now called the GE building) they were constructing in Rockefeller Center. On this particular day, though, they humored a photogr... |
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On September 20, 1932, high above 41st Street in Manhattan, 11 ironworkers took part in a daring publicity stunt. The men were accustomed to walking along the girders of the RCA building (now called the GE building) they were constructing in Rockefeller Center. On this particular day, though, they humored a photogr... |
0b788d9f2d0f568f302daf11d8198b43 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madam-cj-walker-netflix-close-up-180974152/ | Madam C.J. Walker Gets a Netflix Close-Up | Madam C.J. Walker Gets a Netflix Close-Up
Madam C.J. Walker, born Sarah Breedlove in Louisiana in 1867, was the most successful black wellness mogul of her day. Now a new Netflix series will show how this enterprising daughter of freed slaves empowered generations of black women to prosper.
Breedlove was in her 30s whe... |
16da43171a8516503eaf71367767609d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madam-montessori-68331163/ | Madam Montessori | Madam Montessori
Six-year-old shari and her 5-year-old classmate Ugochi are adding 1,756 and 1,268. They’ve penciled the numbers neatly into their notebooks, but the method they’re using to come up with the answer—3,024—isn’t something you’d see in most American schools, let alone kindergartens. Each little girl loads ... |
3bddfb5f21c7e5d517b40084856159d8 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-brought-swastika-germany-and-how-nazis-stole-it-180962812/ | The Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole It | The Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole It
When archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann traveled to Ithaca, Greece in 1868, one goal was foremost in his mind: discovering the ancient city of Troy using Homer’s Iliad. The epic poem was widely believed to be no more than a myth, but Schliemann was ... |
6c0712989bd434438c487c71cd22d968 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-sold-eiffel-tower-twice-180958370/ | The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice. | The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.
The air was as crisp as a hundred dollar bill, on April 27, 1936. A southwesterly breeze filled the bright white sails of the pleasure boats sailing across the San Francisco Bay. Through the cabin window of a ferryboat, a man studied the horizon. His tired eyes were hooded, his... |
8521bb443ba183ec3e573a43a18714d7 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/march-anniversaries-4-292528/ | March Anniversaries | March Anniversaries
50 Years Ago Corps Values In an executive order signed March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy founds the Peace Corps to supply aid and promote international understanding. Calling for volunteers—members receive basic living expenses but no salary—to teach, build schools, help eradicate malaria and... |
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The sun was sparkling off the Bay of Biscay and a light breeze barely ruffled the sails as the three-masted frigate l’Hermione headed out from La Rochelle for sea trials one morning last October. It was a beautiful day, dammit! This would be one of the new ship’s first times out in ... |
2524ed6b83c6f41ef128288651c147af | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/martha-washington-life-elusive-historians-180976983/ | Why Martha Washington’s Life Is So Elusive to Historians | Why Martha Washington’s Life Is So Elusive to Historians
Ask any American what Martha Washington looked like, and you’ll hear of a kindly, plump grandmother, her neck modestly covered and her gray hair poking out of a round, frilled mob-cap, as she was portrayed in Gilbert Stuart’s 1796 portrait. Her husband explained ... |
0d704e6ea90d08d5d0e360f01086b572 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/massive-new-database-connect-billions-historic-records-tell-full-story-american-slavery-180973721/?fbclid=IwAR1_FhYNUGqJClL-V8ANr2U-zjhYv-TPM46A54WjKgWlxqlb8SZa3Bya5n0 | A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery | A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery
In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship transported him... |
6d380682d6537eeafb0f80f95da64f61 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/merchant-marine-were-unsung-heroes-world-war-ii-180959253/ | The Merchant Marine Were the Unsung Heroes of World War II | The Merchant Marine Were the Unsung Heroes of World War II
“The sailor from the merchant ships was in those days known to America as a bum,” the former mariner and author Felix Reisenberg wrote. “He was associated with rotgut whiskey, waterfront brawls and quickie strikes that held up big passenger ships at New York, N... |
014447e65468cd38457eaa84741d29e8 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meriwether-lewis-mysterious-death-144006713/ | Meriwether Lewis’ Mysterious Death | Meriwether Lewis’ Mysterious Death
Captain Meriwether Lewis—William Clark’s expedition partner on the Corps of Discovery’s historic trek to the Pacific, Thomas Jefferson’s confidante, governor of the Upper Louisiana Territory and all-around American hero—was only 35 when he died of gunshot wounds sustained along a peri... |
2312ec9f9989117bbd5a51530fa9ad78 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/michael-jackson-donald-trump-and-other-famous-americans-who-escaped-brushes-death-180961707/ | Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Other Famous Americans Who Escaped Brushes With Death | Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Other Famous Americans Who Escaped Brushes With Death
Donald J. Trump, long before he became President-Elect of the United States, would call October 10, 1989, “a day that changed my life.”
As he tells the story of that day, the then 43-year-old real estate developer was bidding goodby... |
d09cadee2e8098c75bd8e5f0937c2730 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/minstrel-show-1964-worlds-fair-180951239/?utm_source=mandiner&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=mandiner_202101 | The Story Behind the Failed Minstrel Show at the 1964 World’s Fair | The Story Behind the Failed Minstrel Show at the 1964 World’s Fair
Two weeks after opening day of the 1964 New York World’s Fair, a minstrel show like no other debuted on the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds. America, Be Seated!, the Louisiana Pavilion’s self-styled “modern minstrel show,” ditched the blackface and feature... |
ad4f8195e298b3f5a89de3f498eb5edf | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/modern-craft-cocktail-movement-got-its-start-during-prohibition-180971265/ | The Modern Craft Cocktail Movement Got Its Start During Prohibition | The Modern Craft Cocktail Movement Got Its Start During Prohibition
With America in the middle of a flourishing craft beer and craft spirits movement, it’s easy to forget that Prohibition was once the law of the land.
One hundred years ago, on January 17, 1920, Prohibition went into effect, one year after Nebraska beca... |
580ca69fa937f367a430bd16e5f08352 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mongolia-melts-climate-change-looters-close-in-180968764/ | As Mongolia Melts, Looters Close In On Priceless Artifacts | As Mongolia Melts, Looters Close In On Priceless Artifacts
The history and archaeology of Mongolia, most famously the sites associated with the largest land empire in the history of the world under Ghengis Khan, are of global importance. But they’re facing unprecedented threats as climate change and looting impact anci... |
12a7aba3708d00464fab8ec020e423ed | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/motorized-scooter-boom-hit-century-dockless-scooters-180971989/ | The Motorized Scooter Boom That Hit a Century Before Dockless Scooters | The Motorized Scooter Boom That Hit a Century Before Dockless Scooters
Peter Minton was riding his motorized scooter on Rockaway Beach Boulevard when the patrolman served him with a summons to appear in traffic court. The reason: the 16-year-old was operating the vehicle without a driver’s license.
Minton wasn’t zippin... |
12b786f52f261529b84a842af2f1a8f7 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mr-lincoln-goes-to-hollywood-82330187/?no-ist | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
In Lincoln, the Steven Spielberg movie opening this month, President Abraham Lincoln has a talk with U.S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens that should be studied in civics classes today. The scene goes down easy, thanks to the moviemakers’ art, but the point Lincoln makes is tough.
S... |
9dd1c32b2b17dc229e737dd90da6ad34 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-wasnt-very-pretty-the-rise-and-fall-of-dc-stephenson-18935042/?no-ist= | “Murder Wasn’t Very Pretty”: The Rise and Fall of D.C. Stephenson | “Murder Wasn’t Very Pretty”: The Rise and Fall of D.C. Stephenson
On March 16, 1925, in the muted morning light of a hotel room in Hammond, Indiana, 29-year-old Madge Oberholtzer reached into the pocket of the man sleeping next to her. She found the grip of his revolver and slid it out, inch by inch, praying he wouldn’... |
f10ce3a0ceed0c32aa03ae621622f4dc | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/museum-director-defied-nazis-180974905/ | The Museum Director Who Defied the Nazis | The Museum Director Who Defied the Nazis
When Nazi tanks rolled into Paris in the early morning of June 14, 1940, most Parisians had already left the city in a mass exodus to the south. All the museums were closed except the Musée de l’Homme, or Museum of Mankind, which tacked a freshly placed French translation of Rud... |
698915d992ebfb79c679446b301ef9be | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/muslims-were-banned-americas-early-16th-century-180962059/ | Muslims Were Banned From the Americas as Early as the 16th Century | Muslims Were Banned From the Americas as Early as the 16th Century
On Christmas Day, 1522, 20 enslaved Muslim Africans used machetes to attack their Christian masters on the island of Hispaniola, then governed by the son of Christopher Columbus. The assailants, condemned to the grinding toil of a Caribbean sugar planta... |
30cf0e465e84e0c5812d1e3a26d31157 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-roanoke-endures-yet-another-cruel-twist-180962837/ | The Mystery of Roanoke Endures Yet Another Cruel Twist | The Mystery of Roanoke Endures Yet Another Cruel Twist
It seemed too good to be true. And it was.
Nearly 20 years ago, excavators digging on North Carolina’s remote Hatteras Island uncovered a worn ring emblazoned with a prancing lion. A local jeweler declared it gold—but it came to be seen as more than mere buried tre... |
30b57713f888ae2754bfcd0eaf375377 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nan-madol-the-city-built-on-coral-reefs-147288758/ | Nan Madol: The City Built on Coral Reefs | Nan Madol: The City Built on Coral Reefs
We zigzag slowly in our skiff around the shallow coral heads surrounding Pohnpei. The island, a little smaller than New York City, is part of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is nestled in a vast tapestry of coral reefs. Beyond the breakers, the Pacific stretches 5,578 mil... |
d1ec55e60142e40d2bd2bdc6900f9f1a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nasa-landing-moon-many-african-americans-sought-economic-justice-instead-180972622/ | While NASA Was Landing on the Moon, Many African Americans Sought Economic Justice Instead | While NASA Was Landing on the Moon, Many African Americans Sought Economic Justice Instead
In anticipation of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon, an estimated 8,000 New Yorkers gathered in Central Park, eager to celebrate the moment. The New York Times ran a photograph of the crowd glued to the networks’... |
a50610bfbd439899609b4d39474b3c82 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/newly-discovered-diary-tells-harrowing-story-deadly-halifax-explosion-180964066/ | A Newly Discovered Diary Tells the Harrowing Story of the Deadly Halifax Explosion | A Newly Discovered Diary Tells the Harrowing Story of the Deadly Halifax Explosion
“We turn out of our hammocks at 6.30am and lash up and stow in the usual way,” a Royal Navy sailor named Frank Baker wrote in his diary on December 6, 1917. “We fall in on the upper deck at 7am and disperse to cleaning stations, busying ... |
c3c30159ebd47d5bbb68d9505ae7aeff | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nikita-khrushchev-goes-to-hollywood-30668979/ | Nikita Khrushchev Goes to Hollywood | Nikita Khrushchev Goes to Hollywood
Fifty summers ago President Dwight Eisenhower, hoping to resolve a mounting crisis over the fate of Berlin, invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to a summit meeting at Camp David. Ike had no idea of what he was about to unleash on the land whose Constitution he had sworn to defen... |
7a5902ad2d68340309d08ad87ea84c96 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/no-costume-grab-sheet-and-rock-toga-180953199/ | No Costume? Grab A Sheet And Rock a Toga | No Costume? Grab A Sheet And Rock a Toga
If you've made it to October 31 without a game plan for a costume, it's time for a reality check: any costume store within driving distance of civilization will be more frightening than The Ring. Amazon's drones won't be able to express ship you that banana suit in time, which m... |
2285baaa496f4f97c7f458c835a9a9e2 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/november-anniversaries-4-64999169/ | November Anniversaries | November Anniversaries
70 Years Ago Incline and Fall Washington’s four-month-old Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses on November 7, 1940. Known as “Galloping Gertie” for its vertical ripple in a breeze, the span begins twisting laterally in the day’s 42 mph winds. “I saw a side girder bulge out,” says a witness. “Suddenly ... |
9b68e3c2e3d66067089c5a37aba30fde | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/november-anniversaries-6-106885816/ | November Anniversaries | November Anniversaries
40 Years Ago Leader of the Pack Six months after its launch, Mariner 9 reaches Mars on November 14, 1971, narrowly beating two Soviet missions to be the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. For 349 days the unmanned orbiter relays data about the composition and temperature of Mars and its at... |
3b2f1079bf3fa0528d31c258da22a9c4 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-and-only-time-major-party-embraced-third-party-candidate-180959923/ | The Only Time a Major Party Embraced a Third-Party Candidate for President | The Only Time a Major Party Embraced a Third-Party Candidate for President
By the time Michele Obama and Bernie Sanders were finished speaking in Philadelphia last night, this year’s Democratic National Convention had already lasted longer than the shortest Democratic National Convention in history.
That lightning conf... |
de99b22438e9450cacac367ff8469075 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-few-surviving-heroes-d-day-shares-his-story-180972323/ | One of the Few Surviving Heroes of D-Day Shares His Story | One of the Few Surviving Heroes of D-Day Shares His Story
As world leaders and assorted dignitaries join the throngs of grateful citizens and remembrance tourists in Normandy this year to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, one group in particular will command a special reverence: veterans of the actual battle.
... |
2ec5390bc224d97561846478475d80d0 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-hundred-years-ago-four-day-race-riot-engulfed-washington-dc-180972666/ | One Hundred Years Ago, a Four-Day Race Riot Engulfed Washington, D.C. | One Hundred Years Ago, a Four-Day Race Riot Engulfed Washington, D.C.
By all accounts, the 1919 Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C., was one for the ages. Coming right on the heels of the end of the Great War, and with President Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations peace plan still very much alive, Independenc... |
f88df414f4ab0332a78f728f00db4641 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/one-last-time-read-our-timeless-deep-dive-what-beloved-tv-show-got-right-and-wrong-180971094/ | One Last Time, Read Our ‘Timeless’ Deep Dive Into What the Beloved TV Show Got Right and Wrong | One Last Time, Read Our ‘Timeless’ Deep Dive Into What the Beloved TV Show Got Right and Wrong
Fans of the NBC show “Timeless” just couldn’t let the series end. They turned out the vote, choosing the time-travel procedural as the number-one show that should get renewed in USA Today’s Save Our Shows poll. They raised $... |
13ae99c615d56944689efc02361d7769 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/operation-desert-storm-was-not-won-smart-weaponry-alone-180957879/ | Operation Desert Storm Was Not Won By Smart Weaponry Alone | Operation Desert Storm Was Not Won By Smart Weaponry Alone
Technology has long been a deciding factor on the battlefield, from powerful artillery to new weaponry to innovations in the seas and the skies. Twenty-five years ago was no different, as the United States and its allies, proved overwhelmingly successful in the... |
995aa63ad7ddf17dc26b5a8558e5fd4f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/othmar-ammanns-glory-173362465/ | Othmar Ammann’s Glory | Othmar Ammann’s Glory
It was called the most beautiful bridge in the world. At the time of its 1931 opening, it certainly was the longest single span. To honor the engineering feat it represented, a stamp with its picture was issued, and the bridge became the subject of music, even a children's book.
Yet, a section of ... |
9b0728417c44958ecd4aa71dae29b3d5 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/our-top-ten-stories-2019-180973857/ | Our Top Ten Stories of 2019 | Our Top Ten Stories of 2019
The last year of the decade was filled with a dizzying array of headlines, from the January government shutdown to the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral, the discovery of a new human ancestor species, the first-ever image of a black hole, the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team World Cup victory... |
e0858051d565326b037172e0d7a1240c | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pandemic-isnt-first-time-hajj-has-been-disrupted-muslims-180974735/ | This Pandemic Isn’t the First Time the Hajj Has Been Disrupted for Muslims | This Pandemic Isn’t the First Time the Hajj Has Been Disrupted for Muslims
Saudi Arabia has urged Muslims to delay their plans for the hajj, amid speculation that the obligatory pilgrimage may be canceled this year due to the coronavirus.
Earlier this year, Saudi authorities halted travel to holy sites as part of the u... |
6fe33fa87d5d1b14f43e7fd577cab593 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/path-of-the-monuments-men-through-europe-180949681/ | The Path of the Monuments Men Through Europe | The Path of the Monuments Men Through Europe
The map above shows how widespread the challenges were that faced the Monuments Men, or as they are more formally known, the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Program. The personal papers of some of the Monuments Men, including conservator George Leslie Stout (a version of w... |
c35fcd0c641b6da6e55e5b23873c0785 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/petra-jordan-drone-3d-scan-digital-modeling-180970310/ | Once you’ve been to Petra, it stays with you. Long after you’ve left you will find grit from Petra’s red sandstone in the tread of your shoes; your fingernails will have a faint rosy tinge; a fine pinkish dust will cling to your clothing. For some time you will close your eyes and still be able to relive the startling ... | |
b964e2e866638d08a04be35cdd0697b6 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/philip-macedonia-even-greater-alexander-the-great-180974878/ | Colossal Ambition | Colossal Ambition
I drive on a dirt road in Northern Greece through the ruins and spectral presence of a once-great city. Behind it, cloud shadows move across steep, forested mountains. Small birds dart from bushes. Wind combs the grass. Chunks of limestone, quarried more than 23 centuries ago, protrude from the earth.... |
81e61256100d79d15e9d6a19376e95f0 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/photographic-requiem-americas-civil-war-battlefields-180955746/?no-ist | A Photographic Requiem for America’s Civil War Battlefields | A Photographic Requiem for America’s Civil War Battlefields
In “Poem of Wonder at the Resurrection of the Wheat,” Walt Whitman describes a landscape that is oblivious to human suffering, with “innocent and disdainful” summer crops rising out of the same ground where generations lie buried. He published the lyric in 185... |
38813182055d2b8c6fefe584b66dc84e | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ping-pong-diplomacy-60307544/ | Ping-Pong Diplomacy | Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Thirty years ago: April 1972. The Cold War is entering its 26th year with no end in sight. In Vietnam, war still rages. On April 12, a Pan Am 707 lands in Detroit, Michigan, carrying the People's Republic of China's world champion table tennis team for a series of matches and tours in ten cities aro... |
bed990b6ded81726c8658be1e6b84183 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ponce-de-leon-never-searched-for-the-fountain-of-youth-72629888/ | Ponce De Leon Never Searched for the Fountain of Youth | Ponce De Leon Never Searched for the Fountain of Youth
Half a millennium ago, in 1513, the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León departed Puerto Rico for the verdant island of “Bimini”—an uncharted land in what is now the Bahamas. He eventually landed instead in Florida, where he staked a claim for the Spanish Crown and ... |
68e8d471087becd3ae42c18fdbca616f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/powers-that-be-74850594/ | Powers That Be | Powers That Be
Presidential historian Robert Dallek is probably best known as the author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. It is to Kennedy, who was sworn into office 50 years ago this month, that Dallek traces a significant expansion of presidential power in this country (“Power and the Presidency” ).... |
ee2af6caefff484bd46b5a5ac553e69e | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/priest-abu-grahib-180971013/ | Joshua Casteel was 24 years old when he learned he would be sent to Iraq as an interrogator with the 202nd Military Intelligence Battalion. This was his first deployment. It was June 2004, and the war in Iraq had been going on for a little more than a year. Casteel packed a copy of the Book of Common Prayer and didn’t ... | |
9b17471fec8e5d7b01eeb842e94e9bff | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/private-tour-cias-incredible-museum-180952738/ | A Private Tour of the CIA’s Incredible Museum | A Private Tour of the CIA’s Incredible Museum
A chill wind whipped off the Warnow as a retired railroad worker shuffled through the streets of the port city of Rostock one winter night in 1956. He wore the drab clothes typical of East German residents. But when a second man appeared from the shadows, the elderly German... |
fde05cd91c9f1007d82e7d00219548b7 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/proliferation-happiness-180968468/ | The Proliferation of Happiness | The Proliferation of Happiness
It took only ten minutes for Harvey Ball to create the Smiley face. In 1963, the State Mutual Life Assurance Company in Worcester, Massachusetts, hired him to come up with a design that would help raise the morale of its employees. Ball was an artist formally educated at the Worcester Art... |
a5c1652f5a519d7ebe76b1d3b0a81ed3 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/proposal-change-vocabulary-we-use-when-talking-about-civil-war-180956547/ | A Proposal to Change the Words We Use When Talking About the Civil War | A Proposal to Change the Words We Use When Talking About the Civil War
A new generation of scholarship – not to mention high-profile films like 12 Years a Slave and Lincoln -- has changed the way that the public understands American history, particularly slavery, capitalism, and the Civil War. Our language should chan... |
79d36c870978219ba0acb3ca28f53d7d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ptsd-civil-wars-hidden-legacy-180953652/ | Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD? | Did Civil War Soldiers Have PTSD?
In the summer of 1862, John Hildt lost a limb. Then he lost his mind.
Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
The 25-year-old corporal from Michigan saw combat for the first time at the Seven Days Battle in Virginia, where he was shot in the right arm. Doctors amputated his shatter... |
0641c752872c25df6f6d86f54176bda3 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/puzzle-given-ellis-island-immigrants-test-intelligence-180962779/ | This Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to Test Their Intelligence | This Jigsaw Puzzle Was Given to Ellis Island Immigrants to Test Their Intelligence
The face puzzle, a box of wooden jigsaw pieces, looks like a child’s game, a primitive, flattened-out version of Mr. Potato Head. Start with the biggest piece, a half-inch-thick hunk of wood shaped like a head. Place the others where the... |
0f6285c7484a863fc335f4153fff2e78 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/recapping-the-jetsons-episode-07-the-flying-suit-109680696/ | Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 07 – The Flying Suit | Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 07 – The Flying Suit
This is the seventh in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season.
The seventh episode of “The Jetsons” premiered on American television November 4, 1962, and was titled “The Flying Suit.” In this episode we’r... |
58e8d3387d46fb7f879bb94d2f842b80 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/recapping-the-jetsons-episode-09-elroys-tv-show-137116925/ | Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 09 – Elroy’s TV Show | Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 09 – Elroy’s TV Show
This is the ninth in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season.
When I was a kid I didn’t quite understand how TV and movies were made. Around the age of four or five, I had a basic understanding of how live ... |
0aa57883fb95c22c3fd969884310cd79 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/reckless-breeding-of-the-unfit-earnest-hooton-eugenics-and-the-human-body-of-the-year-2000-15933294/ | Reckless Breeding of the Unfit: Earnest Hooton, Eugenics and the Human Body of the Year 2000 | Reckless Breeding of the Unfit: Earnest Hooton, Eugenics and the Human Body of the Year 2000
Illustration of the human bodies of the future by Abner Dean in the January 1950 issue of Redbook magazine
In the early 1950s, many people speculated that the average American’s body would look dramatically different by the ear... |
2390a245ef2d756ad74afcc706195e73 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/reconsiderations-63769826/ | Reconsiderations | Reconsiderations
Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell, a Stanford ecologist and author of The Elephant’s Secret Sense, has been studying elephant behavior since 1992, primarily in Namibia’s Etosha National Park. In “Male Bonding,” she describes a hair-raising confrontation between two bull elephants that overturned all her precon... |
e9d5ad9ca7cb8f5f13534a687b56c3c5 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rehabilitating-cleopatra-70613486/ | Rehabilitating Cleopatra | Rehabilitating Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII ruled Egypt for 21 years a generation before the birth of Christ. She lost her kingdom once; regained it; nearly lost it again; amassed an empire; lost it all. A goddess as a child, a queen at 18, at the height of her power she controlled virtually the entire eastern Mediterranean... |
ed5aa601536d32f0757eaeb7d09701fe | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/reinvention-great-american-circus-180963682/ | Step Right Up! See the Reinvention of the Great American Circus! | Step Right Up! See the Reinvention of the Great American Circus!
Printed in red capital letters on the back of the instructor’s black T-shirt is what seems to me a loaded question: WHY WALK WHEN YOU CAN FLY?
The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus
Looking down from nearly 20 feet up in the air, perched ato... |
6b4f6715b0b1acbf787ea83fcd9a9cef | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/remedy-spread-fake-news-history-teachers-180961310/ | The Remedy for the Spread of Fake News? History Teachers | The Remedy for the Spread of Fake News? History Teachers
Few people would approach a complete stranger on the street for information about the pressing issues of the day, and yet that is just how many behave on the internet. In the wake of the 2016 election, reporting from Buzzfeed and other outlets has made it increas... |
98e820b5ecbd7923d7c43208b7eb687d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/remote-cold-war-radar-system-has-new-use-warming-world-180952777/ | A Remote Cold War Radar System Has New Use in a Warming World | A Remote Cold War Radar System Has New Use in a Warming World
How cold was the cold war? The workers who built the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line in the mid-1950s liked to toss a glass of water into the air just so they could hear the firecracker-like report as the droplets instantaneously froze. They were working in... |
b206c5e2e4c596da4c5406fc8d87f71a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/resurrecting-the-dead-with-computer-graphics-77706610/ | Resurrecting the Dead With Computer Graphics | Resurrecting the Dead With Computer Graphics
A couple of weeks ago audiences at the Coachella music festival got to see Tupac perform live (NSFW language), despite the fact that he’s been dead for fifteen years. Countless websites have already dissected why the technology used to create this “Tupac hologram” isn’t actu... |
ce191071d4c129f0f3c61f1964347289 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rise-fall-sleeping-car-king-180971240/ | The Rise and Fall of the Sleeping Car King | The Rise and Fall of the Sleeping Car King
George M. Pullman literally raised Chicago from the mud. He introduced luxury to the nation’s rail lines. He even created a model company town for his workers—a feat that prompted some to proclaim him the “Messiah of a new age.”
Then, in the greatest labor uprising of the nine... |
86dc771eaec03b511ae70c3ebd97fa26 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rise-zombie-mall-180973086/ | The Rise of the Zombie Mall | The Rise of the Zombie Mall
“Who wants to sit in that desolate-looking spot?” Frank Lloyd Wright carped of the atrium inside the first enclosed shopping mall, the Southdale Center in Edina, Minnesota.
But 75,000 people rushed there the day it opened in October 1956 and marveled at the 72 stores on two floors, the 800,0... |
bf466fef9c64c23dabcebff438c0345a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/robert-reid-mayor-of-nearby-middletown-remembers-three-mile-island-nuclear-accident-180971636/ | For Those Living Nearby, the Memory of the Three Mile Island Accident Has a Long Half-Life | For Those Living Nearby, the Memory of the Three Mile Island Accident Has a Long Half-Life
In mid-March 1979, Americans headed to the theaters to see The China Syndrome. Starring Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas and Jack Lemmon, the disaster thriller follows a broadcast journalist who discovers safety coverups at a nuclear ... |
2428f2fdd7e1553cd64fa079d2d8db4a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rudolf-hess-tale-poison-paranoia-and-tragedy-180952783/ | Rudolf Hess’ Tale of Poison, Paranoia and Tragedy | Rudolf Hess’ Tale of Poison, Paranoia and Tragedy
In August 1945, an Army major named Douglas Kelley was handed one of the most sought-after assignments in his profession: examining the most prominent Nazis who’d been taken prisoner of war. Kelley, a psychiatrist trained at Berkeley and Columbia, had been treating Amer... |
65f1d22c1e8222551691419b4c56b4d1 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/run-silent-run-deep-72432889/ | Run Silent, Run Deep | Run Silent, Run Deep
The sonar room supervisor of the nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS Batfish (SSN 681) picked up his microphone and punched the intercom button for the officer of the deck a few feet away in the control room. "CONN, SONAR. SONAR CONTACT BEARING ZERO-SIX-TWO. CLASSIFIED POSSIBLE SOVIET SUBMARI... |
2267874368d997cf24aa056cebedf35b | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sacrifice-amid-the-ice-facing-facts-on-the-scott-expedition-96367423/ | Sacrifice Amid the Ice: Facing Facts on the Scott Expedition | Sacrifice Amid the Ice: Facing Facts on the Scott Expedition
Captain Lawrence "Titus" Oates with ponies. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
For Lawrence Oates, the race to the South Pole had a portentous start. Just two days after the Terra Nova Expedition left New Zealand in November 1910, a violent storm killed two of the 19 p... |
4982b67308e6376b53daa00176aed00a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/salk-sabin-and-the-race-against-polio-169813703/ | Salk, Sabin and the Race Against Polio | Salk, Sabin and the Race Against Polio
They were two young Jewish men who grew up just a few years apart in the New York area during the Great Depression, and though they were both drawn to the study of medicine and did not know each other at the time, their names would, years later, be linked in a heroic struggle that... |
269296c24aa28536e04c63b14a08699f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/samarra-rises-131464352/ | Samarra Rises | Samarra Rises
I'm standing on a street corner in the center of Samarra—a strife-scarred Sunni city of 120,000 people on the Tigris River in Iraq—surrounded by a squad of American troops. The crackle of two-way radios and boots crunching shards of glass are the only sounds in this deserted neighborhood, once the center ... |
1c40a5cc87c5fcbb71f2858d1480f734 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/santa-claus-builds-a-flying-machine-169033044/?no-isthttp://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/santa-claus-builds-a-flying-machine-169033044/?no-ist | Santa Claus Builds A Flying Machine | Santa Claus Builds A Flying Machine
Postcard showing “Santa Claus of the Future” from 1908 (Source: Novak Archive)
Some people are up in arms over a recent update to Santa Claus that excised his smoking habit. However you feel about Santa losing his pipe, let me assure you that this won’t be the last time that Santa ge... |
7f2032bd245cf75239dd67059cbc2cf6 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sarah-winnemucca-devoted-life-protecting-lives-native-americans-face-expanding-united-states-180959930/ | Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States | Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States
For the first few years of her life, Sarah Winnemucca, who was born around 1844, did not know that she was American. Born Thocmetony (Shell Flower) among the Numa (known among whites as the Northern Paiute or “dig... |
bee8964789d7bd48f187f90703b5d3a0 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/savoring-pie-town-85182017/ | Savoring Pie Town | Savoring Pie Town
The name alone would make a stomach-growling man wish to get up and go there: PieTown. And then too, there are the old photographs—those moving gelatin-silver prints, and the equally beautiful ones made in Kodachrome color, six and a half decades ago, at the heel of the Depression, on the eve of a glo... |
e9fe239bd0d671519c280ec185f85320 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/scandalous-quarter-protest-wasnt-180962088/ | The “Scandalous” Quarter Protest That Wasn’t | The “Scandalous” Quarter Protest That Wasn’t
It started out innocently enough: In January 1917, the United States released a new quarter dollar it had minted at the end of the previous year. Just 52,000 copies of the 1916-dated quarter were produced.
But this was no ordinary coin. Instead, it would become one of the mo... |
994d6ce0df2aaef89b58d849bfdd5eaa | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/science-fear-royal-scandal-made-france-modern-and-other-new-books-read-180974685/ | The Science of Fear, the Royal Scandal That Made France Modern and Other New Books to Read | The Science of Fear, the Royal Scandal That Made France Modern and Other New Books to Read
To confront her crippling fear of heights, journalist Eva Holland jumped out of an airplane and learned to rock climb. But while she endured these experiments with a semblance of aplomb, she found that the experience did little t... |
a08815e79bacec55606cbba713e9a415 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/search-site-worst-indian-massacre-us-history-180959091/ | The Search Is On for the Site of the Worst Indian Massacre in U.S. History | The Search Is On for the Site of the Worst Indian Massacre in U.S. History
In the frigid dawn of January 29, 1863, Sagwitch, a leader among the Shoshone of Bia Ogoi, or Big River, in what is now Idaho, stepped outside his lodge and saw a curious band of fog moving down the bluff toward him across a half-frozen river. T... |
64fcb99e3f4263a1c7f97b5b608ac0ae | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-societies-you-might-not-know-180958294/ | Eight Secret Societies You Might Not Know | Eight Secret Societies You Might Not Know
By their very name, secret societies inspire curiosity, fascination and distrust. When the Washington Post broke the story last month that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent his final hours in the company of members of a secret society for elite hunters, people instantl... |
3d3ecb5f2d68dbc8779ac77a6f56b188 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secrets-of-the-maya-deciphering-tikal-2289808/ | Secrets of the Maya: Deciphering Tikal | Secrets of the Maya: Deciphering Tikal
Tikal’s great plaza, at the heart of what was one of the most powerful city-states in the Americas, is surrounded by monumental structures: the stepped terraces of the North Acropolis, festooned with grotesque giant masks carved out of plaster and masonry; a steep pyramid called T... |
4e512fe3e348b7c91cf4837645f01441 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/see-jewish-life-before-holocaust-newly-released-digital-archive-180952582/ | See Jewish Life Before the Holocaust Through a Newly Released Digital Archive | See Jewish Life Before the Holocaust Through a Newly Released Digital Archive
In 1935, Roman Vishniac, a Russian-born Jew and heralded photographer, journeyed throughout Eastern Europe with one goal: photograph impoverished Jewish communities. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, his employer, planned to u... |
0633d9711745cc4ad8fe11811aec3cc6 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/see-rare-footage-fdr-speaking-national-institute-health-180952664/ | See Rare Footage of F.D.R. Speaking at the National Institute of Health | See Rare Footage of F.D.R. Speaking at the National Institute of Health
On October 31, 1940, just days before President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would be elected to an unprecedented third term as President of the United States, he traveled to Bethesda to dedicate the National Cancer Institute and the new campus of wha... |
03d2479423619b9ebb3b19a165a7615a | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seeking-humanity-al-capone-180960880/ | Seeking the Humanity of Al Capone | Seeking the Humanity of Al Capone
Al Capone is much more myth than man in the popular imagination. While the notorious gangster of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago still lingers in our cultural consciousness, this image is one riddled with contradictions: of a mobster and a do-gooder; a man who sprayed silver bullets into... |
9c0ec74b287f8254a649bc6e8d5fbb7f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/september-1861-settling-in-for-a-long-war-48371156/ | September 1861: Settling in for a Long War | September 1861: Settling in for a Long War
Five months into the Civil War—on September 9—Richmond, Virginia’s Daily Dispatch editorialized that the time for debate had passed. “Words are now of no avail: blood is more potent than rhetoric, more profound than logic.” Six days earlier, Confederate forces had invaded Kent... |
be32e75b9977b3c9a1e3ad16f54fb05f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/serial-there-were-these-groundbreaking-examples-serialized-non-fiction-180953378/ | Before Serial, There Were These Groundbreaking Examples of Serialized Non-Fiction | Before Serial, There Were These Groundbreaking Examples of Serialized Non-Fiction
Serial, a new podcast that spends an entire season focusing on a 15-year-old murder, has taken the world by storm. It is the top-rated podcast on iTunes and each episode has been downloaded or streamed at least 1.2 million times. The popu... |
c02a37bfc8efc5c04b083316f6eb0f87 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seven-famous-people-who-missed-the-titanic-101902418/ | Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic | Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic
The sinking of the Titanic claimed some 1,500 lives, among them a gallery of early 20th-century A-list celebrities. Captains of industry John Jacob Astor IV and Benjamin Guggenheim both went down with the ship, as did Macy’s co-owner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, who refuse... |
44ad90b2d349447a2c30c41296751068 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seven-famous-people-who-missed-the-titanic-101902418/?c=y&navigation=next&page=2 | Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic | Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic
The Italian inventor, wireless telegraphy pioneer and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics was offered free passage on Titanic but had taken the Lusitania three days earlier. As his daughter Degna later explained, he had paperwork to do and preferred the public stenograph... |
87cb10e989d8f919dd91be7a13b27543 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seven-famous-people-who-missed-the-titanic-101902418/?c=y&navigation=thumb&page=6 | Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic | Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic
The 34-year-old multimillionaire sportsman, an heir to the Vanderbilt shipping and railroad empire, was returning from a trip to Europe and canceled his passage on the Titanic so late that some early newspaper accounts listed him as being on board. Vanderbilt lived on to becom... |
89ea3ada71c42a1c7c6da4f586b9926c | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sex-and-space-travel-predictions-from-the-1950s-81300280/ | Sex and Space Travel: Predictions from the 1950s | Sex and Space Travel: Predictions from the 1950s
Illustration by L. Sterne Stevens in the March 1956 issue of Sexology magazine (source: Novak Archive)
In September of 1992 astronauts Jan Davis and Mark Lee became the first married couple to leave the planet together. But NASA didn’t originally plan on it happening tha... |
75def6709626710199d97a91e43b7c89 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sistine-chapel-evolution-new-haven-connecticut-180958499/ | The “Sistine Chapel of Evolution” Is in New Haven, Connecticut | The “Sistine Chapel of Evolution” Is in New Haven, Connecticut
When visitors go to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, they are not exactly wrong to think that dinosaurs are the stars of the show. This is, after all, the museum that discovered Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Triceratops, Dip... |
719a1d7123a6bb123a23fa439fc92629 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/site-salem-witch-trial-hangings-finally-has-memorial-180964049/ | The Site of the Salem Witch Trial Hangings Finally Has a Memorial | The Site of the Salem Witch Trial Hangings Finally Has a Memorial
Eight years ago, when they bought their house overlooking a wooded ledge in Salem, Massachusetts, Erin O’Connor and her husband, Darren Benedict, had no idea why that parcel stood empty. The scrubby lot lay tucked between houses on Pope Street, within si... |
8909edd7cecfdb34200e2772e81ff91f | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/speech-brought-india-brink-independence-180964366/ | The Speech That Brought India to the Brink of Independence | The Speech That Brought India to the Brink of Independence
For more than 200 years, Britain had asserted its iron will over India. From the East India Company levying taxes starting in the 18th century to Britain instituting direct rule over two-thirds of the country in the mid-19th century, India had been extorted for... |
c747fded57465b5b154043c5742639cb | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sticky-rice-mortar-view-space-and-more-fun-facts-about-chinas-great-wall-180962197/ | Sticky Rice Mortar, the View From Space, and More Fun Facts About China’s Great Wall | Sticky Rice Mortar, the View From Space, and More Fun Facts About China’s Great Wall
Ancient work of monumental architecture, Wonder of the World, and protection against—giant lizards? The Great Wall of China is perhaps more powerful as a symbol than a physical structure, but in a new Hollywood blockbuster starring Mat... |
82381adbfbb0b509e2d46af19b606276 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/ | The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe | The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
It was raining in Baltimore on October 3, 1849, but that didn't stop Joseph W. Walker, a compositor for the Baltimore Sun, from heading out to Gunner's Hall, a public house bustling with activity. It was Election Day, and Gunner's Hall served as a pop-up polling location ... |
614055bfa74321f359c7bc6c14c3b077 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/stopping-nazi-plots-1930s-los-angeles-180966961/ | The Nazis’ Plan to Infiltrate Los Angeles And the Man Who Kept Them at Bay | The Nazis’ Plan to Infiltrate Los Angeles And the Man Who Kept Them at Bay
Men in armbands stand below an American flag, flanked by Nazi symbols and a portrait of Hitler. In another photograph, swastika flags line Broadway Street in Los Angeles. The cover of historian Steven J. Ross’s new book looks like something stra... |
780762c630e8614d26f2978fb5f96faf | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-lidice-massacre-180970242/ | The Lost Children of the Lidice Massacre | The Lost Children of the Lidice Massacre
In 1947, eight-year-old Václav Zelenka returned to the Czech village of Lidice as the last of the town’s lost children. Five years earlier, he and the rest of Lidice’s 503 residents had been viciously attacked by the Nazis, but the young Zelenka had few recollections of the even... |
b26d9da82ff5c42b15b7f8890d2cfb24 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/surprisingly-intolerant-history-milk-180969056/ | The Surprisingly Intolerant History of Milk | The Surprisingly Intolerant History of Milk
On May 8, 1858, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper ran a scandalous article on a seemingly benign topic: milk. In a 5,000-word expose, the paper characterized a group of Brooklyn and New York distilleries as “milk murderers” who had distributed “liquid poison” to the unsusp... |
ff68e868e3cd70d7dc51c95c058d76c7 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sweeping-new-digital-database-emphasizes-enslaved-peoples-individuality-180976513/ | Who Were America’s Enslaved? A New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers | Who Were America’s Enslaved? A New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers
The night before Christmas in 1836, an enslaved man named Jim made final preparations for his escape. As his enslavers, the Roberts family of Charlotte County, Virginia, celebrated the holiday, Jim fled west to Kanawha County, where his ... |
e278edb5e1b659dc16544d788a071041 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/synchronized-swimming-has-history-dates-back-ancient-rome-180960108/ | Synchronized Swimming Has a History That Dates Back to Ancient Rome | Synchronized Swimming Has a History That Dates Back to Ancient Rome
Most people think of synchronized swimming, which gained Olympic status in 1984, as a newcomer sport that dates back only as far as Esther Williams' midcentury movies. But the aquatic precursors of synchronized swimming are nearly as old as the Olympic... |
98f820f1cf1d5c9b4d404d793d47746d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/telemedicine-predicted-in-1925-124140942/?no-ist= | Telemedicine Predicted in 1925 | Telemedicine Predicted in 1925
The 1920s was an incredible decade of advancement for communications technology. Radio was finally being realized as a broadcast medium, talkies were transforming the film industry, and inventors were tinkering with the earliest forms of television. People of the 1920s recognized that big... |
078e50cb016dbd065de1c0cbf99983e6 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/telling-forgotten-stories-everyday-americans-revolutionary-war-180962618/ | Telling the Forgotten Stories of the Everyday Americans of the Revolutionary War | Telling the Forgotten Stories of the Everyday Americans of the Revolutionary War
In a darkened theater, a traveling 19th-century entertainer uses a crankie, a moving paper panorama with back-lit shadow puppets, to introduce five 18th-century characters—a Catawba Indian, an Irish immigrant woman whose family fought on o... |
006d07518816aaed996a10e8de7296fe | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ten-notable-apocalypses-that-obviously-didnt-happen-9126331/?no-ist=&page=2 | Ten Notable Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn’t Happen | Ten Notable Apocalypses That (Obviously) Didn’t Happen
1. The First Warnings From Assyria
An Assyrian clay tablet dating to around 2800 B.C. bears the inscription: “Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no lo... |
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