Six Innovative Ways Humans Have Kept Cool Throughout History
Published: July 26, 2024 11:15
From sleeping porches to coastal escapes, these tips and tricks helped people deal with extreme heat before the advent of air-conditioning
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Inside the Fight to Save the Indiana Dunes, One of America's Most Vulnerable National Parks
Published: July 25, 2024 11:15
Caught between steel mills, suburbs and a hard place, the 15,000-acre site is a fantasia of biodiversity—and a case study for hard-fought conservation
The Brothers Who Asserted Their Right to Free Speech in Tudor England
Published: July 24, 2024 11:15
Peter and Paul Wentworth called on Elizabeth I to name an heir to the throne, wielding Parliament's free speech privileges to urge the queen to take action
The Real Story Behind Netflix's 'The Decameron'
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-story-behind-netflixs-the-decameron-180984739/
Published: July 23, 2024 14:56
Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th-century collection of short stories, the series follows a group of Italian nobles and servants who flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death
This Little-Known Civil Rights Activist Refused to Give Up His Bus Seat Four Years Before Rosa Parks Did
Published: July 23, 2024 11:15
William "W.R." Saxon filed a lawsuit against the company that forced him to move to the back of the bus, seeking damages for the discrimination and mental anguish he’d faced
Ten Surprising Public Figures Who Dreamed of Olympic Gold
Published: July 22, 2024 11:15
The list includes European royals, Darth Vader's stunt double and an American World War II general
The Real Story Behind the Baltimore Deaths That Inspired 'Lady in the Lake'
Published: July 18, 2024 11:15
A new mini-series offers a fictionalized take on two unrelated 1969 cases: the mysterious disappearance of bartender Shirley Lee Parker and the murder of 11-year-old Esther Lebowitz
The History of Presidential Assassination Attempts, From Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt
Published: July 17, 2024 11:00
Before last weekend's attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins unsuccessfully targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other sitting presidents or candidates for office
Nine Things You Didn't Know About the Ancient Olympic Games
Published: July 15, 2024 11:15
With an intensive athletes’ boot camp and the threat of execution for unwelcome spectators, the Greek sporting event was a serious affair
How 'Fly Me to the Moon' Pokes Fun at Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories
Published: July 12, 2024 14:57
The new Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum film presents an alternative history in which government officials prepared to fake the moon landing before NASA pulled off the feat for real