5 Pregnant Rulers Who Fearlessly Stormed Into Battle From legendary empresses to noblewomen who terrified the Vatican, these pregnant rulers donned armor, subdued riots, launched invasions, and forged…
Naming the Universe How the quick thinking of internationally minded astronomers avoided stamping the solar system with petty European rivalries by Stephen Case https://aeon.co/essays/how-gods-beat-as…
Scholar Claims Van Gogh Hid Secret Homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ In His ‘Café Terrace at Night’ Did you know about his "Sacred Realism"? by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso (from the archives) ht…
Harriet Beecher Stowe Wrote a Work of Fiction That Seemed So Real That It Changed the History of the Country To fight against slavery, the author collected true stories then picked up a pen and distil…
Solved, Unsolved and Unsolvable: The Status of Hilbert’s 23 Problems in Mathematics More than a century after David Hilbert presented a list of 23 mathematical challenges to the 1900 International Con…
22-year-old Mozart’s handwritten notebook unearthed in ‘major discovery’ The notebook was confiscated during the French Revolution, and has now been found in Paris. https://www.classicfm.com/composers…
8 Women Composers Who Shaped the Musical World Discover eight women composers who have shaped the musical world and gave women in music a voice. by Andrew Olsen (from the archives) https://www.thecoll…
JUNETEENTH․com launched in 1996, helping share the history of June 19, 1865, and support celebrations across the United States and beyond. As awareness of Juneteenth grew, so did the site. The Wayback…
In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Gove…
The Atlas Behind the Revolution While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas. By: April White https://daily.jstor.org/the-atlas-b…
🎩✂️ Public domain culture inspires new creations! For our recent screening 📽️ of MOROCCO (1930), artist Freya Morgan remixed imagery from the film into a delightful new work: Marlene Dietrich in "Morocc…
5 of Agatha Christie’s Works You Won’t Be Able to Put Down Don’t miss out on this list of bestselling Agatha Christie works, which remain unrivaled in the murder mystery genre. https://www.thecollecto…
What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready By Paul Sutter https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-would-happen-if-the-sun-stopped-part-2-kelvin-and-helmholtz-a…
There can be no sin committed from love – the radical ethics of Héloïse by Prashanti Aswani, Adam D’Arpino, Abigail Tulenko https://aeon.co/videos/there-can-be-no-sin-committed-from-love-the-radical-e…
💳 Who should decide what content is acceptable online? Banks? In TRANSACTION DENIED, author Rainey Reitman joins Annalee Newitz to discuss why content moderation decisions shouldn't be made by financi…
In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” Samantha Silva: “Women are asking not who we ought to be, but who we want to be. https://lithub.com/in-jane-austens-sens…
New research proposes Dante’s Inferno modelled a planetary impact 500 years before modern science! by Asmae Ourkiya https://www.egu.eu/news/1777/new-research-proposes-dantes-inferno-modelled-a-planeta…
Was Mill anti-traditional? And was Hayek suffering from the burden of the past...? by Henry Oliver https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/was-mill-anti-traditional Books by John Stuart Mill at PG: https://w…
🧵1️⃣/2️⃣ Thousands of educational filmstrips are deteriorating faster than they can be digitized. 🎞️ Archivist Mark O’Brien explains why preserving these overlooked materials has become a race against time…
