What was going on in the world in 1961? A lot of eeriness, a lot of confused, threatened, concealed or failed aggression Ben Ratliff Taking inspiration from Coltrane’s two weeks…

How else are you going to get to Christmas Island? A free online talk from the The Royal Museums Greenwich will educate you about 400 years of celebrating Christmas afloat.…

Author Robert Caro’s personal archives will go to the New York Historical Society. Caro is still writing the final volume of his Lyndon B. Johnson biography.

The New York State Museum has just published James W. Bradley’s new book, Onondaga and Empire; An Iroquoian People in an Imperial Era. The book is available to freely download…

Lamoka is a word that you don’t see used much other than for the lake itself, and the prehistoric archaeological culture found along its shores. Does anyone know where its…

By Mike Donnelly at RETROActive, with appearances by William Wintemberg, H.M. Worthington, Junius Bird, and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.

Scenes from the first Assunpink Firewalk, part of the City of Trenton’s Patriots Week, which celebrates George Washington’s revolutionary victories at the Battles of Trenton. THESE are the times that…

The original telephone system connected phones by copper wire strung up on poles. These “land-lines” faced a problem when confronted with obstacles like the Atlantic ocean, so it was not…

Hobley’s Heroes is an online archive that shows something of life as an archaeologist digging in London in the 1970s and 1980s, including dig site photos and an fanzine-like comic/workplace…

The University of California Press has made all their journal articles freely available for the month of April. UC Press, which is celebrating their 125th anniversary, publishes California History, where…