Sonya Clark in 60 Seconds
artist Sonya Clark, "Monumental Cloth: The Flag We Should Know." at Cranbrook Art Museum
AI: An ancient nightmare?
how far back does our fascination with, and our fear of, AI extend?
Hannah Barker Lecture: The Most Precious Merchandise
The Florida State University Department of History welcomes Hannah Barker for her presentation, ‘That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500’ (Philadelphia: University ofPennsylvania Press, 2019).…
Smithsonian Podcast: Get Off My Lawn
The history of the American lawn
Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes
Nicholas Orme, author of new book Tudor Children, joined Emily Briffett to talk about the lives of young people in the era
Transgender Experiences in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Before 1933, Germany was a center of LGBT+ community and culture, with several renowned organizations serving and supporting trans and gender non-conforming people. Hitler’s Nazi government, however, brutally targeted the…
De Fiets is Niets
Today the Netherlands has a reputation as a kind of bicycling paradise. Dutch people own more bicycles per capita than any other place in the world. The country has more…
100 Years of Weird Tales
when the March 1923 issue of Weird Tales hit newsstands, many people didn’t know what to make of this new magazine. But 100 years later, Weird Tales has had a…
A Whale-Oiled Machine – 99% Invisible
In the 1800s, whaling was a vast and brutal industry–sometimes as deadly for the sailors involved as it was for the whales. And the global epicenter of whaling could be…
Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters
From the dangers of childbirth to female sexuality, myths and legends about female monsters like mermaids and sirens can tell us a lot about different societies’ attitudes towards women over…