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UrduIt’s one of the iconic images of early Antarctic exploration: the heroic explorer sledging across the icy wastes towed by his trusty team of canine companions. But new research analysing a century-old dog biscuit suggests the animals in this picture…
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American University Inaugurates First Ladies Association for Research and Education (FLARE)
The nation’s first association dedicated to the study of the evolving roles and history of America’s First Ladies has been announced by American University.
Establishing Juneteenth as national holiday is opportunity to create “new America”
The Senate has unanimously passed a bill to establish Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday. This is an historic moment and an opportunity to create a “new America,” according to Anne Bailey, professor of history at Binghamton University, State University of New York and director of the Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity.
Fossil research shows woodlice cousins roamed Ireland 360 million years ago
New techniques used to recreate the image of the Oxyuropoda – the cousin of the garden woodlice
Mary Foltz awarded Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship to Expand LGBTQ Archive
Lehigh University’s Mary Foltz will serve as a scholar-in-residence at Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, where she will work with the center’s Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive and lead public humanities initiatives.
How to improve energy efficiency of historically significant buildings
How can historic buildings become more energy efficient while conserving their heritage values? A doctoral thesis provides the answer by presenting a new method for combining climate goals and heritage values in historic buildings stocks. Renovate to improve energy efficiency…
At underwater site, research team finds 9,000-year-old stone artifacts
Underwater archaeology team finds ancient obsidian flakes 2,000 miles from quarry
Early migrations of Siberians to America tracked using bacterial population structures
Early migrations of humans to the Americas from Siberia around 12,000 years ago have been traced using the bacteria they carried by an international team including scientists at the University of Warwick
Sealed, signed and delivered
Hebrew University archaeologists unveil 7,000-year-old seal impressions used for commerce and protection of property
Holberg Prize to Martha C. Nussbaum and Griselda Pollock
The 2020 and 2021 Holberg Prizes were conferred upon Professor Griselda Pollock and Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, respectively
Māori connections to Antarctica may go as far back as 7th century, new study shows
Indigenous Māori people may have set eyes on Antarctic waters and perhaps the continent as early as the 7th century, new research published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand shows.
‘Emergency Associations of German Science’ new study on the history of the DFG from 1920 to 1973
Patrick Wagner traces the development of the funding organization through three political eras; social sanctuary for university research and basic research and the socially conservative elites involved
Māori connections to Antarctica may go as far back as 7th century, new study shows
Indigenous Māori people may have set eyes on Antarctic waters and perhaps the continent as early as the 7th century, new research published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand shows. Over the last 200 years,…
Radicalized and believing in conspiracies: Can the cycle be broken?
How conspiracies and radicalization have entered the American mainstream and what to do about it
‘Asian American’: A rallying cry that united Asians in the 1960s but is it still relevant?
How Asian Americans’ public policy opinions are divided by generation and national origin, especially on immigration
10,000-year-old DNA pens the first tales of the earliest domesticated goats
New research has revealed the genetic makeup of the earliest goat herds. The findings, assimilated from DNA taken from the remains of 32 goats that died some 10,000 years ago in the Zagros mountains, provide clues to how early agricultural…
Study sheds light on pre-Columbian life in understudied area of SW Amazon
Evidence showing intensive land use for farming and fishing more than 3,500 years ago helps researchers better understand the history of a culturally significant area and is counter to the often-held notion of a pristine Amazon before Europeans arrived
New archive to document controversial writer and broadcaster Don Cupitt
Former TV presenter reached popularity in the 80s for his divisive BBC series Sea of Faith
Fifty years of progress in women’s health
Chronicling major points of progress in women’s health
Forged books of seventeenth-century music discovered in Venetian library
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In 1916 and 1917, a musician and book dealer named Giovanni Concina sold three ornately decorated seventeenth-century songbooks to a library in Venice, Italy. Now, more than 100 years later, a musicologist at Penn State has…
Archaeology: Prehistoric violence at Jebel Sahaba may not have been single event
Reanalysis of the prehistoric cemetery Jebel Sahaba (Sudan), one of the earliest sites showing human warfare (13,400 years ago), suggests that hunter-fisher-gatherers engaged in repeated, smaller conflicts. The findings are published in Scientific Reports. Healed trauma on the skeletons found…
Rutgers Professor Named Cullman Fellow, Awarded NEH Grant for Rep. John Lewis Research
David Greenberg started delving into the life of the iconic civil rights leader John Lewis as a way to blend his expertise in the presidency and national politics and tackle the subject of racial equality and justice. The Rutgers-New Brunswick professor launched his book project John Lewis: A Life in Politics, which is to be published by Simon & Schuster, after he traveled to Atlanta in February 2019 for an awe-inspiring meeting to secure the late congressman’s approval.
Ancient fish bones reveal non-kosher diet of ancient Judeans, say researchers
Ancient Judeans commonly ate non-kosher fish surrounding the time that such food was prohibited in the Bible, suggests a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Tel Aviv . This finding sheds new light on the origin of Old Testament dietary…
Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big Bang
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma – the first matter ever to be present – during the first microsecond of Big Bang.
Is deference to supernatural beings present in infancy?
From shamans and mystics to cult leaders and divine kings, why have people throughout history accorded high status to people believed to have supernatural powers? According to a study led by researchers from the University of Oxford, this tendency to…
Forensic archaeologists begin to recover Spanish Civil War missing bodies
Forensic archaeologists and anthropologists from Cranfield University have started to recover the bodies of victims executed by the Franco regime at the end of the Spanish Civil War during an excavation in the Ciudad Real region of Spain. The team…
Digital disclosure of Dutch East India Company archives by Huygens Institute
State-of-the-art scientific infrastructure enables better understanding of colonial history, the Dutch East India Company and the early-modern histories of countries and cultures of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago Worlds.
Palgrave announces release date for first-ever Iris Murdoch book series
New series on famed author’s life and work launches in September 2022
Provenance: How an object’s origin can facilitate authentic, inclusive storytelling
Archivists assess, collect and preserve various artifacts and archive them to better understand their origin and cultural heritage.
The entire genome from Peştera Muierii 1 sequenced
For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the entire genome from the skull of Peştera Muierii 1, a woman who lived in today’s Romania 35,000 years ago. Her high genetic diversity shows that the out of Africa migration was…
Swiss farmers contributed to the domestication of the opium poppy
Fields of opium poppies once bloomed where the Zurich Opera House underground garage now stands. Through a new analysis of archaeological seeds, researchers at the University of Basel have been able to bolster the hypothesis that prehistoric farmers throughout the…
Launch of “Standing Tall – The Goh Chok Tong Years” by PM Lee Hsien Loong
Volume two of the authorised biography of Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Standing Tall – The Goh Chok Tong Years , was launched along with its Chinese translation on 7 May by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the…
How Russia can protect its rights in the Artic
Baselines and historical territorial waters
Literary and film historians propose five key concepts for reflection on global literary studies
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) is organizing an international symposium to analyze literary and film history and the cultural processes, texts and agents involved, from a perspective that seeks to be transnational, gender-based and decentralized
The Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing the longest water channel of the ancient world
Aqueducts are very impressive examples of the art of construction in the Roman Empire. Even today, they still provide us with new insights into aesthetic, practical, and technical aspects of construction and use.
Virtual Event Examines Impact and Evolution of the Role of America’s First Ladies
Prominent scholars, archivists, historians, former White House staff members and insiders gather to explore the fascinating lives and evolving roles of America’s First Ladies Symposium. The event is hosted by the White House Historical Association in partnership with American University’s First Ladies Initiative.
Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe, new book shows
Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe because of social changes and the growing importance of the written word, a new book shows. Fake documentation began to be produced in earnest in the tenth century across…
Team cracks century-old mystery over the health struggles of explorer Ernest Shackleton
The severe nutrient deficiency beriberi is found to be the primary cause of Shackleton’s bouts of breathlessness and weakness
What can we learn about agricultural practices from soil archives?
Long-term studies allow for betting understanding of agroecosystem change
200-year-old poop shows rural elites in New England had parasitic infections
Study finds parasites in fecal samples from the 1830s-1840s in privy on Dartmouth’s campus
Prehistoric humans first traversed Australia by ‘superhighways’
Sandia supercomputer creates most detailed analysis ever of continental human migration
Historian of science Gerald Holton wins the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Gerald Holton “for his numerous seminal contributions to the history of 19th and 20th century science”
UCI’s Adria Imada is named a 2021 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Irvine, Calif., April 28, 2021 — The University of California, Irvine’s Adria L. Imada has been named to the 2021 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows. The professor of history – who also teaches in the medical humanities – joins an exclusive cohort of 26 distinguished scholars from across the nation, selected out of more than 300 nominees.
Writing the history of feminism in the South and Appalachia: WVU researcher earns prestigious Carnegie award
There’s more to the American women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s than burning bras and Gloria Steinem.
Jessica Wilkerson, associate professor of history at West Virginia University, wants to change that narrative to its truest form: The fight for women’s rights was built on the shoulders of women of color, the working class and women in the south and Appalachia – not just white-collar urbanites.
When Chauvet Cave artists created its artwork, the Pont d’Arc was already there
The Chauvet Cave, which lies by the entrance to the Gorges of the Ardèche, is home to the world’s oldest cave paintings, dating back 36,000 years. Their state of preservation and aesthetic qualities earned them a spot on the World…
First Virtual National Conference on Undergraduate Research Features COVID-19 Presentations
On April 12–14, 2021, students from institutions around the world will participate in the Nat Conference on Undergraduate Research, sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research. Faculty mentors and more than 3400 undergraduate researchers will come together online to share their research.
Melting ice sheets caused sea levels to rise up to 18 metres
It is well known that climate-induced sea level rise is a major threat. New research has found that previous ice loss events could have caused sea-level rise at rates of around 3.6 metres per century, offering vital clues as to…
Leipizig University joins new DFG Priority Program on the fluvial anthroposphere
Collaboration between Leipzig University, the University of Tübingen and the Technical University of Darmstadt
Illinois researchers to digitally preserve history of live musical performances
The digital scholarship project will work with materials from Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Modern analysis of rock art
Machine learning opens new doors in archaeology