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Queens of Infamy: Zenobia
In third-century Syria, a widowed monarch dared to be wildly ambitious — and almost brought the Roman Empire to its knees.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Toxic Legacy of Building 606
The San Francisco police officers stationed on the Hunters Point Superfund site worked atop the literal and figurative fallout of the US Military’s WWII-era atomic testing.
Posted inStory
Queens of Infamy: Josephine Bonaparte, from Malmaison to More-Than-Monarch
In fraught games of power politics, sometimes the best revenge is not being exiled to die alone on an island in the South Atlantic.
Posted inBooks, Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Walking Across California
To understand what the Golden State is compared to what it was, one solitary hiker follows the trail of the first overland Spanish expedition into California 250 years later.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Happened at Camp Lejeune
Living next to North Carolina Naval Base Camp Lejeune, Lori Lou Freshwater grew up drinking and bathing in water contaminated at levels 240 to 3400 times the safety standard. Now a Superfund site and a candidate for “the worst water contamination case in U.S. history,” the area’s carcinogens caused her mother to lose two sons, one […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Scholar of Mazes: Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse
“I stepped forward into a darkness that I’m still trying to find my way out of more than 40 years later.”
Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
Remembering the Things That Remain
A Polish artist invites a journalist to dig into disturbing remnants from the Holocaust that Poland would rather keep buried.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
It’s Time for Real Talk About Aliens
No time in human history has presented clearer, more compelling evidence that something unexplained is interacting with human beings, be they aliens or UFOs.
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‘Midwesterners Have Seen Themselves As Being in the Center of Everything.’
In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than popular history allows — especially popular history as told in the Midwest.
