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Harvard Just Launched a Fascinating Resource All About Bauhaus
The newly digitized collection is as ambitious as the art school it documents
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Love Truman Capote? Buy His Ashes
Is the sale of Capote’s earthy remains a gauche publicity stunt or an act worthy of the audacious author?
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Five Places Where Confederate Monuments Have Recently Disappeared (or Soon Will)
Vanderbilt University’s decision to rename a building to “Memorial Hall” is just one of many ongoing efforts
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DOJ Will Say Goodbye to Private Federal Prisons
Private facilities for federal inmates will be phased out—but state use of the practice remains
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This Olympic Medal Is Even Harder to Win Than the Gold
The International Olympic Committee values sportsmanship above all else
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Explorers Find Second Oldest Shipwreck in the Great Lakes
The merchant sloop Washington went down in a storm in 1803 on Lake Ontario
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Use the Phrase “Polish Death Camps” in Poland and You May Go to Jail
Soon, saying that Nazi death camps were Polish could earn you three years in prison
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Why the 1980 Olympic Village Is Now a Prison
It’s one way to deal with leftover infrastructure
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DNA Analysis Reveals What Ötzi the Iceman Wore to His Grave
He rocked surprisingly complex fashion for the Copper Age
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Dig to Find Fabled Nazi Gold Train Begins
Explorers believe the Nazis stashed an armored train full of gold and weapons in tunnels in Poland’s Owl Mountains
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The So-Called “Superhenge” Was Made of Wood, Not Stone
New research shows that the ancient structure was also taken down in a hurry
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Highest Peak in South Dakota Renamed for Oglala Lakota Medicine Man
A federal board has officially changed South Dakota’s Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak
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Did the Ancient Greeks Engage in Human Sacrifice?
The remains uncovered at an altar to Zeus on Mount Lykaion may confirm legends about human sacrifice at the shrine
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Tourists in Hawaii Accidentally Discovered Ancient Petroglyphs
A stroke of luck on the beach
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The Rules About How to Address the U.S. Flag Came About Because No One Wanted to Look Like a Nazi
During the National Anthem, Americans are asked to put their right hands over their hearts. But why?
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Ancient Hominids Used These 250,000-Year-Old Tools for Butchery
Traces of blood on the prehistoric tools, suggest our ancestors had a much more varied diet than once thought
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World’s Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria
A small gold bead shows that Copper Age people in the Balkans were processing gold 6,500 years ago
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Germany Is Reworking the Commission That Handles Restitution for Nazi-Looted Art
A lackluster track record and controversial comments led to a shift
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NASA Accidentally Sold a Precious Apollo Artifact
A seemingly simple bag is at the center of multiple lawsuits
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