Making use of museum-based collections — even, or especially, from sites excavated nearly one hundred years ago — is essential to regional research. Julia A. King writes about collections-based research…

Here’s the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s list of 20 “essential” rock and roll holiday songs. The somewhat random list includes Brenda Lee (no, not that song),…

…until Darlene Love sings Baby Please Come Home

Mathematician David Reimer on how Ancient Egyptians did their maths, and how it was different from modern mathematics. In an article for The College of New Jersey (where Reimer is…

John Lawson arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1700. At the end of the year, he set off with nine other people on a two month long excursion through South…