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White Southerners Said “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Was Fake News
So its author published a “key” to what’s true in the novel
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This New Zealand River Just Got the Legal Rights of a Person
It’s the end of more than a century of struggle
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L.M. Montgomery’s Ontario Home Will Open As a Museum
While living in the village of Norval, the beloved author enjoyed stunning literary success. But this chapter of her life was tinged with darkness
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The World’s First Solar-Powered Satellite is Still Up There After More Than 60 Years
This tiny grapefruit-sized satellite will still be up there well into the 2100s if we don’t take it down
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Did Catherine Parr Write a Propaganda Song for Henry VIII?
‘Gaude gloriosa Dei mater,’ purportedly penned by the king’s sixth wife, will be performed in London for the first time in more than 470 years
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Washington’s Army Celebrated St. Patrick’s Day to Cure Winter Blues
Washington declared the day a holiday in an attempt to raise morale and acknowledge the army’s many soldiers of Irish descent
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Utah Chooses New State Works of Art
Ancient rock art and Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” are poised to become state symbols
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The Idea of Surgeons Washing Their Hands is Only 154 Years Old
The world of surgery before that was much grosser and less effective
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Netflix Will Finish Orson Welles’ Last Film
Will The Other Side of the Wind live up to its iconic reputation?
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The First Description of Allergies Was Published On This Day in 1844
John Bostock was a British doctor suffering from what he called “summer catarrh”
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Five Things You Didn’t Realize Were Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Since 1965, the agency has bestowed more than 63,000 humanities-related grants
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This Patent Was the Hallmark of an Aerosol Whip Cream Empire
Aaron “Bunny” Lapin had already made Reddi-Wip a national concern when he finally received the patent for the aerosolizing whip cream nozzle
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The First-Ever Blood Bank Opened 80 Years Ago Today
Its inventor also coined the term “blood bank”
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Thornbury Castle, Honeymoon Spot of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, On Sale for $10.3 million
The property boasts boasts 28 bedrooms, sprawling Tudor gardens and restaurant experience in the dungeons
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Why South Korea’s National Archive Uprooted 12 Japanese Trees
The kaizuka trees represent a long and complicated history with the country’s former colonial occupier
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The Man Who Dug JFK’s Grave, Twice
Clifton Pollard dug graves in the Arlington National Cemetery for more than thirty years
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Archaeologists Worked Feverishly to Excavate Colonial-Era Graves at Philly Construction Site
The First Baptist Cemetery was supposed to have been moved in 1859, but as it turned out many of the graves were left behind
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Researchers Float (Unlikely) Theory That Jane Austen Died of Arsenic Poisoning
A contested hypothesis says the author’s glasses may offer new insight into her death
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The Teenager Who Patented Earmuffs Kept His Town Employed for 60 Years
Chester Greenwood became an earmuff tycoon whose factory kept his hometown in business
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Celebrate Sunshine Week By Transcribing Once Top-Secret Documents
The National Archives wants you…to make documents more accessible to future generations
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