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Crowdsourcing old journals

Project uses Web participation, video games to digitize documents.

The surprising origins of Europeans

Researchers discuss new theories on human migration revealed by sophisticated DNA tests.

Scientists reveal parchment's hidden stories

Researchers used the latest scientific techniques to extract ancient DNA and protein from tiny samples of parchment from documents from the late 17th and late 18th centuries allowing them to establish the species type of animals from which the parchment was made.

How has Kennewick Man changed our understanding of the way the Americas were peopled?

There's evidence now that people cam to America, on both the east and west coasts, thousands of years ago.

Chicago scientists open Egyptian mummy coffin

Scientists started conservation work on the mummy of Minirdis, the son of a stolist priest.

Fewer South Africans believe Apartheid was a crime against humanity

It's dropped ten percent since 2003. 

Living African group discovered to be the most populous humans over the last 150,000 years

New genetic research reveals that a small group of hunter-gatherers now living in Southern Africa once was so large that it comprised the majority of living humans during most of the past 150,000 years.

The Real Reason Richer People Marry

by Andrew Cherlin

Social class differences in marriage have been tied to the extent of income inequality among white Americans for at least 130 years.

Dozens of oral histories from the Clinton presidency just went live

There’s plenty of fodder for Hillary to worry about.

Zigzag Etched On Ancient Shell May Be World's Oldest Art

The geometrical engraving is believed to date back 430,000 to 540,000 years.

House OKs Measure Stopping Social Security Payments To Former Nazis

The vote was unanimous.  

Is It Better to Lose the White House?

The surest price the winning party will pay is defeat of hundreds of their most promising candidates and officeholders for Senate, House, governorships, and state legislative posts.

Museum Announces $25 Million Gift to Name the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education

Largest Single Gift Will Ensure the Museum’s Vital Educational Mission

Are the Irish about to whitewash the anniversary of the Easter Uprising?

by HNN

"The Government's promotional video for 'Ireland 2016', the centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising, provides a fairly obvious clue to what is wrong with it. There is only the briefest mention of 1916 and none of 'The Rising' or freedom."

A movie’s coming about Selma

The director’s drawing media attention. She’s black and a woman — rare in Hollywood.

Rewriting the War, Japanese Right Attacks a Newspaper

Takashi Uemura, a former journalist, is under attack for his reporting on “comfort women.”

Readex Enlarges Early American Newspapers with Series 11, 1803-1899

Featuring essential historical newspapers collected by the American Antiquarian Society, Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899 will be launched in December 2014 by Readex, a division of NewsBank.

Richard III's DNA throws up infidelity surprise

Analysis of DNA from Richard III has thrown up a surprise: evidence of infidelity in his family tree.

Louisana Senator Mary Landrieu claims in an ad that her opponent backed a documentary that claimed slavery was better than welfare. But it didn't.

The ad, which ran on the radio, says what's worse is that her opponent wants to impeach President Obama. 

Riots, Keggers, and the Clap

College students and alcohol have mixed poorly for decades.