Tag: history
Why would anyone want to sit on a plane for over...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
Recently Qantas announced plans to conduct test flights from New York and London to Sydney and two other Australian cities.
If...
Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting
Eddie King, University of South Carolina
The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to...
Americans might love Cinco de Mayo, but few know what they’re...
Kirby Farah, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Many Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but how many actually know...
Identicide: How demographic shifts can rip a country apart
Monica Duffy Toft, Tufts University
What happens to a country when its core national identity – its preferred image of itself in terms of race...
Rise and fall of the landline: 143 years of telephones becoming...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
The global economy has changed dramatically over the past century and a half.
When I lecture my Boston University business students...
Did academia kill jazz?
Adam Gustafson, Pennsylvania State University
Jazz seems to be experiencing a bit of a renaissance among movie directors – look no further than documentaries such...
I dig through archives to unearth hidden stories from African-American history
Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
Many years ago, as a graduate student searching in the archives of Spanish Florida, I discovered the first “underground railroad” of...
Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive
Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Sometime in the autumn of 1621, a group of English...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
