SYMHC Classics: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
This 2014 episode covers the incident in 1959, in which nine students ventured into the Ural mountains for a ski hiking trip, and never returned. […]
Month: February 2021
Under climate stress, human innovation set stage for population surge
(Washington University in St. Louis) Aridification in the central plains of China during the early Bronze Age did not cause population collapse, a result that […]
Ancient Egyptian manual reveals new details about mummification
(University of Copenhagen – Faculty of Humanities) Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has […]
Behind the Scenes Minis: Isadora
Holly and Tracy talk about Holly’s childhood perceptions of Isadora Duncan and how the famous dancer broke convention. They also talk about the peccadillos of […]
Book Review: The Earps Invade Southern California
Co-authors Don Chaput and David D. de Haas recount the legendary Earps’ last family gathering in turn-of-the-century southern California
Remembering Jasenovac Concentration Camp
While the horrors of World War II concentration camps are well known, Jasenovac was considered—even by the Nazis—to have had especially hellish conditions.
Book Review: Seven Days in Hell
David O’Keefe relates the July 25, 1944, Battle of Verrières Ridge, a disastrous one for Canada’s Black Watch Regiment
‘Never Forget’ Rose Created for Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial
“Having a rose named Never Forget will be a reminder and help to perpetuate the message that we must never forget; that we are united with and honor all those served and sacrificed on behalf of America in times of war and armed conflict”
Short Fuzes: Why Bombs Blew Up On Fighters in the Vietnam War
When bombs began exploding prematurely over Vietnam, killing aircrews, the cause was traced to faulty fuzes, but more would die before a solution was found. The problem of aircrews being killed by premature bomb detonation began early in the Vietnam Wa…
James Baldwin’s Challenge to America: Not Your Negro and Not Willing to Settle
The esteemed 20th century writer demanded that White society accept its culpability in the betrayal of Black people