I wasn’t researching World’s Fairs when I found this. I was looking into construction records from the 1890s, trying to understand how certain buildings were erected so quickly with the...
“Normal vs. Crazy”: Power, Protest, and the Politics of Public Space in America In a nation long defined by ideological rivalry, the language of political conflict has grown sharper, more...
I wasn’t looking for giants when I found the first article. I was researching 19th century archaeology, the early excavations, the mound explorations that dotted the American landscape before professional...
Seattle rebuilt itself on top of itself. If you walk through Pioneer Square today and look down, you’ll see glass prisms set into the concrete beneath your feet. They’re called...
Try to trace your family back past 1890. Go ahead, pull up one of those ancestry websites. Follow your grandmother’s line, then her mother’s, then hers. At some point, you’re...
I wasn’t researching census records when I found it. I was trying to verify immigration patterns from the late 1800s, cross-referencing naturalization documents with population data, standard genealogical work. The...
There is a door in the Palazzo Ducal in Venice that is 4 m tall. The room it leads interseats perhaps 30 people comfortably. The ceiling above that room is...
Look down the next time you walk past a building that went up before 1930. If the sidewalk is old enough, and if nobody has poured new concrete over it,...
There is a door in the basement of the Palazzo de la Rajon in Padua, Italy that has been bricked over since 1420. The city government sealed it during a...
“NO FLAGS BUT OURS!” — SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY SHOCKS CONGRESS IN EXPLOSIVE C-SPAN SHOWDOWN The foundational structures of the American capital experienced a massive seismic shift today as Senator John...