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Nixon Library -- 3 years running and still no director

by Anthony Clark

Critics charge the Nixon foundation with interference with federal control of the institution. 

CBS video retells the Emmett Till story in under 2 minutes as tree in DC is planted in his memory

A sycamore was planted in memory of a black teenager whose murder, nearly 60 years ago, helped spark the civil rights movement.

Return of the Veto?

President Obama has rejected just two bills in his six years in office, the fewest of any White House occupant who has served as long since James Monroe. That could begin to change next week.

Construction company tries to cover up Byzantine structure with cement

Officials of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum sent two archaeologists to the construction site to examine the entrance of the cistern and work was halted.

No one can read this book, but perhaps now that it’s online someone will figure out how.

It’s the Medieval Voynich Manuscript.

Karkemish archaeologists dig metres away from ISIS-controlled territory

Dig site is close to Syrian city that now flies the extremist group's black banner

Latest fad among the super rich? Buying up Napoleon artifacts

The rising prices have set off a new Napoleonic war of sorts, with private collectors competing aggressively with buyers for public museums.

Turkey's Erdogan: Muslims got to America before Columbus

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is claiming that Muslim sailors reached the Americas more than 300 years before explorer Christopher Columbus.

The Comfort Women and Japan’s War on Truth

The Abe government is determined to rewrite the imperial military's history of wartime sexual slavery.

Reagan, Bush Also Acted Without Congress To Shield Immigrants From Deportation

There was no political explosion then comparable to the one Republicans are threatening now.

150 Years Later, Wrestling With a Revised View of Sherman’s March

To any number of Southerners, the Civil War general remains a ransacking brute and bully whose March to the Sea, which began here 150 years ago on Saturday, was a heinous act of terror.

Human Footprints Discovered In Denmark Date Back 5,000 Years

The first of their kind to be found in Denmark, the footprints may shed light on what life was like for coastal people during the Stone Age.

Documents raise fresh questions about thalidomide criminal trial

A summary of findings raises questions about whether Germany’s federal government reached a backroom deal with both the drug company and the state prosecutor in charge of the criminal case.

John Muir's legacy questioned as centennial of his death nears

As the first president of the Sierra Club, Muir shaped enduring perceptions about how the wild world should be prioritized, protected and managed.

British Museum releases scans of artefacts to let you 3D print your own museum at home

Working in collaboration with Sketchfab, an online platform that lets users share and download 3D scans, the British Museum has created 14 3D models of busts, statues and sarcophagi from its collection for anyone to download and print at home.

Germans convicted of stealing from Egypt's Great Pyramid

A court in Giza sentenced in absentia three Germans -- who had claimed they were researchers -- for stealing pieces of an ancient scroll bearing the name of the Pharaoh Khufu, as well as rock samples.

Petitioning against a congressional gag rule on slavery before the Civil War spurred generations of activists

It foreshadowed feminism.

Never-before-heard tapes of Reagan revealed

President Ronald Reagan secretly recorded some of his conversations with foreign leaders.

New study: Judicial nominations have always been subject to partisanship

by Michael J. Gerhardt and Michael Ashley Stein

There never was a Golden Age.  These nominations were always political.

A third of Russians think Cold War did not end with fall of Berlin Wall

Most Russians agree with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the standoff between Russia and the West, but many think the Cold War did not end in 1989.