WEIRD HISTORY
By Ken Lawrence – The Navassa Lighthouse. On December 8, 1859, to forestall a Haitian attempt to take possession of Navassa, a Caribbean island south of Cuba, U.S. Secretary of State Lewis Cass made a momentous decision. He officially recognized an American ship …
By William G. Hyland Jr. – America was woven together by three revered pieces of political paper: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. George Mason’s intellectual potency had a decisive role in shaping and producing all three …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s impression of the early hominin Graecopithecus freybergi in its savannah home in ancient Greece. (Credit: Veliza Simeonovski). It’s generally accepted that humans originated in Africa and gradually spread out across the globe from there, but a pair of …
Ice cores, used to study ancient climates, also contain the history of the Roman Empire By Elisa Bonnin, Oceanography, University of Washington. Of all of the civilizations of the past two thousand years, there are few as well-known as the Roman …
By Melissa Sartore – – In contrast to much of what Hollywood has constructed, the real cowboy lifestyle was far less glamorous and happy than you may think. Of course, there were some smiling faces among 19th century cowboys, but the gunslinging frontier …
By Luke Kemp – Studying the demise of historic civilizations can tell us how much risk we face today, says collapse expert Luke Kemp. Worryingly, the signs are worsening. Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives. DEEP CIVILISATION …
by Ben B.Boothe, Sr. – – Circa 1890: A sailor tries to kiss a young woman under a sprig of mistletoe. (William Small. Hulton Archive/Getty Images By KAT MOON). From Harry Potter’s first kiss to Justin Bieber’s holiday tune, kissing under the mistletoe is everywhere …
An undated photo of abolitionist and women’s rights activist Lucy Stone. Corbis—Getty Images. – During Women’s History Month the work of pioneering women’s rights activists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony will surely be debated and discussed in classrooms and newsrooms around the …
Stephan Roget – – The real Pocahontas was nothing like the Pocahontas depicted in Disney’s 1995 animated classic. There are a multitude of ways that Disney lies about, or at the very least exaggerates, the life of Pocahontas, but they’re not the only culprits …
It was a sprawling civilization. By Matt Davis – – Near modern-day St. Louis, Missouri, you can find towering mounds of earth that were once the product of a vast North American culture. Cahokia was the largest city built by this Native American …
