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A Talk With The Polar Geographer Who Discovered Shackleton’s Endurance Under 10,000 ft of Frozen Water
Jan 02, 2025On August 1, 1914, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackelton and his crew sailed from England, set on making history as the first to cross Antarctica. Their ship never returned from her maiden voyage. On...
The Founding Fathers Were 20 and 30-Somethings. Why Is America Now a Gerontocracy?
Dec 31, 2024A house on the Florida coast. An assisted living program. A lively retirement community. Medicare. Our modern concept of old age—and even the idea of old age as a distinct stage of life—are products o...
A Pre-WWI French Philosopher Was More Popular Than Elvis and Possibly Entered the US Into the Great War
Dec 26, 2024In New York City, 1913, French philosopher Henri Bergson gave a lecture at Columbia University, resulting in fanfare, traffic jams, and even fainting spells among the thousands of people clamoring for...
While Starving at Besieged Leningrad, Scientists Hid Drought-Resistant Crop Seeds That Could Prevent Future Famines
Dec 24, 2024In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad—now St. Petersburg—and began the longest blockade in recorded history, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly...
Surviving Nearly 2 Years of Shipwreck on a South Pacific Island in the 1880s
Dec 19, 2024Today, half of the world’s population lives around the Pacific Rim. This ocean has been the crossroads of international travel, trade, and commerce for at least 500 years. The economy was driven by w...
How Did 450 Boers Defeat 15,000 Zulus at the Battle of Blood River in 1838?
Dec 17, 2024By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-east, but was under growing pressure from British traders and hunters on the coast, and descenda...
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 9: The End of North African Piracy and the Beginning of American Global Naval Hegemony
Dec 12, 2024In this final episode of our series on the Barbary Wars, we look at the fates of the Barbary States. After 1815, the Barbary States lost their independence, with Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco s...
When Did Americans Become Americans? 1945, 1865, 1787, or 1776?
Dec 10, 2024When news reached Parliament of the Boston radicals’ destruction of the Royal East India Company’s tea, it passed the Coercive Acts, a collection of punitive measures designed to rein in that insubord...
Key Battles of the Barbary Wars, Episode 8: The Second Barbary War (1815)
Dec 05, 2024The conclusion of the War of 1812 elevated America's naval reputation and marked the start of the "Era of Good Feelings," a period of national pride. With peace restored, President Madison redirected ...
How Much of a Nation’s Fate is Bound Up In Its Geography?
Dec 03, 2024Napoleon Bonaparte is reported to have said. “The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography. Is he correct? How much does geography determine the character of a nation in its politics and...