Articles by Meilan Solly

About Meilan Solly

Meilan Solly is Smithsonian magazine's assistant digital editor, humanities. Website: meilansolly.com.

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The Enduring Mystery of H.H. Holmes, America's 'First' Serial Killer

Presumed Portrait of Catherine Howard May Actually Depict Anne of Cleves

Books of the Month

African Europeans, Jewish Commandos of WWII and Other New Books to Read

National Cathedral Unveils Carving of Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and Chronicler of the Holocaust

Cool Finds

Archaeologists Discover 110 Ancient Egyptian Tombs Along the Nile Delta

One of the First Dollar Coins Struck at the U.S. Mint Sells for $840,000

Why Did Cahokia, One of North America's Largest Pre-Hispanic Cities, Collapse?

How Prince Philip Modernized—and Fought to Preserve—the Monarchy

Cool Finds

Newly Discovered Gainsborough Portrait Reveals Likeness of Overlooked Composer

From Books Bound in Human Skin to Occult Texts, These Are Literature's Most Macabre, Surprising and Curious Creations