WEIRD HISTORY
Participants in the Indigenous Peoples Of the Americas Parade in New York City, 2022 Oct 15. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images – By Torivio Fodder, Indigenous Governance Program Manager and Professor of Practice, University of Arizona Published: 2022 Nov 07 – Curious Kids is a …
Dance is a unique way of passing on cultural stories to a younger generation. Aaron Hawkins/Flickr.com, CC BY-ND – By Rosalyn R. LaPier, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana Published: 2018 Oct 05 – Alaska has a “linguistic emergency,” according …
This clay facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man, carefully sculpted around the morphological features of his skull, suggests how he may have looked alive nearly 9,000 years ago. Brittney Tatchell, Smithsonian Institution – By Samuel Redman, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Amherst Published: 2016 …
Monsters and spirits –including ‘tsukumogami,’ which are made of everyday objects – in the ‘Hyakki-Yagyō-Emaki’ scroll, painted between the 14th and 16th centuries. Wikimedia Commons – By Kevin C. Taylor, Director of Religious Studies and Instructor of Philosophy, University of Memphis Published: 2022 …
Policemen keep a mob back as James Meredith, a Black student trying to enroll at the University of Mississippi, is driven away after being refused admittance to the all-White university in Oxford on 1962 Sep 25. AP Photo – By Joseph Daniel Ura, …
Tree rings can preserve a record of astrophysical events like solar flares. University of Queensland – By Michael Irving 2022 Oct 27 – Tree rings are not just a great record of a tree’s life, but they can preserve a snapshot of the Earth …
Sacheen Littlefeather speaks at the 45th Academy Awards. Bettmann/Getty Images – By Dina Gilio Whitaker, Lecturer on American Indian Studies, California State University San Marcos Published: 2022 Oct 28 – When Sacheen Littlefeather died on 2022 Oct 02, obituaries reflecting on the actress …
A pit bull is not an official breed – it’s an umbrella term for a type of dog. Barbara Rich via Getty Images – By Colin Dayan, Professor of English, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University …
Samples of the ancient bones from which the oldest human genomes in Britain were taken. University College London – By Michael Irving 2022 Oct 24 – Scientists have sequenced the genomes of two ancient skeletons, and found they constitute the oldest human DNA in …
How did Halloween get associated with the spooky? SolStock/Collection E+ via Getty Images – By Tok Thompson, Professor of Anthropology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Published: 2022 Oct 24 – As Halloween approaches, people get ready to celebrate the spooky, …
