The article examines how U.S. Cold War nuclear weapons production, especially at Rocky Flats, has been largely left out of public memorials even as environmental contamination persists. It contrasts the Manhattan Project’s historical park with the dismantled and restricted Cold War sites.
The article argues that France and the United States were allies whose partnership reflected temporary strategic convergence, not sincere friendship. It traces how French and American diplomats used professions of amity while pursuing separate interests from 1776 to 1792.
This historical analysis examines how The Bulletin, a newsletter of the British Polio Fellowship, portrayed polio-disabled people from the 1940s onward. It argues that the publication fostered a positive disabled identity while also presenting sanitised accounts that overlooked pain and excluded some groups.
Reviewing John Dinges' book on Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, killed after Chile's 1973 coup, the essay explains how the key eyewitness claim of CIA involvement was recanted. It argues the real scandal is a US diplomatic cover-up reflecting a broader Cold War pattern of tolerating regime abuses.
Overcrowded London churchyards and cholera epidemics led to the 1850 Burials Act and the opening of Brookwood Cemetery in 1854, served by a dedicated railway for the dead. The article places this within the garden cemetery movement and Victorian attitudes toward mourning and the dead.
A Leeds exhibition explores how Victorian fears of cholera, miasma and foreigners shaped the vampire in Stoker's Dracula and Murnau's Nosferatu, drawing on the 1838 'great stink', Punch cartoons and Stoker's mother's account of the Sligo cholera outbreak.
An interview with Natalia Konradova on her book Hacking the Iron Curtain traces how Soviet telepathy research and Cold War citizen exchanges, including the 1982 Space Bridge, helped produce the early Russian internet and its role in the USSR's 1991 collapse.
— via JSTOR Daily, The Editors
Historian Troy Rondinone argues that 1970s horror and drama films, from The Exorcist to Halloween, both reflected and shaped how Americans understood deinstitutionalization. Earlier films criticized abusive hospitals, while later ones cast escaped patients as killers amid cynicism about rehabilitation.
— via JSTOR Daily, Livia Gershon
Lynn Hunt argues that Napoleon Bonaparte pioneered modern authoritarianism, which uses democratic tools such as plebiscites and celebrity to undo democracy. The French Revolution's turmoil and the fragility of republican legitimacy cleared the path, though the outcome was not preordained.
— via Age of Revolutions, Age of Revolutions
Ivan the Terrible repeatedly angled for a marriage tie with Elizabeth I, partly to secure England as a refuge and protect the Muscovy Company's trade monopoly. Elizabeth avoided refusing him outright, delaying and deflecting to preserve the commercial relationship.
— via Smithsonian — History
President Harry S. Truman is a wild card in historians’ dueling storylines about the atomic bombings of Japan at the end of World War II. For “orthodox” historians, Truman and…
— via Not Even Past (UT Austin), Jose Roberto Campos Cordero
An enslaved woman near Amelia County, Virginia, suffered abdominal pain and diarrhea for eighteen months from a malignant ovarian tumor, and Dr. Theodorick Bland treated none of it. He waited four months, asked to dissect her after she died, then preserved the fetal skull he found and showed it to many.
— via Age of Revolutions, Age of Revolutions
Only 3 of 73 priests in the Bressuire arrondissement took the Concordat oath in 1802. Archival police records show the government's crackdown on the resulting schism was harsher and longer than historians realized, yet roughly 15,000 followers held on anyway, and the sect survives in Deux-Sèvres today.
— via Age of Revolutions, Age of Revolutions
Albany's descendants built a statue to a Mohawk war captain most Americans have never heard of. Lawrence fought alongside Colonel Peter Schuyler against the French in King William's War, negotiated prisoner releases, and helped hold the Covenant Chain alliance together, his story preserved largely through the colony's biracial Mohawk-Dutch interpreter.
— via Age of Revolutions, Age of Revolutions
A 1930 push in the US Congress to investigate Venezuela's dictator split exiles in New York, some feeding testimony of prisons and killings to a senator, others calling it foreign meddling. One earlier plot, a 1924 invasion by ship, collapsed before it even reached Mexico to pick up weapons.
— via Age of Revolutions, Age of Revolutions
Only 5 to 10 percent of the Dr Pepper Museum's collection is ever on display, and the rest demands constant cataloging, provenance checks and ethical calls behind the scenes. Staff there now spend real time fighting AI-generated errors and collector myths, treating the museum floor as a live history lab, not a warehouse.
— via Not Even Past (UT Austin), Jose Roberto Campos Cordero
