The Legend of the Seven Sleepers
By Robert Chambers with extensive footnotes, links, additions, and images.
Supreme Court reversed almost 200 years of US law and tradition upholding tribal sovereignty in its latest term
SCOTUS v. Congress, States v. Feds. And sovereign countries in the balance.
By Kirsten Matoy Carlson
Italian Music in Dakota
By Walt Whitman
Starving civilians is an ancient military tactic, but today it’s a war crime in Ukraine, Yemen, Tigray and elsewhere
By Tom Dannenbaum, Alex DeWaal, and Daniel Maxwell
Where the Witches Were Men: What Magic Looked Like in Early Modern Russia
By Valerie Kivelson
Antarctica’s riskiest glacier is under assault from below and losing its grip
By Ted Scambos
Ten Things About the Yellowstone National Park Fires of 1988
Looking back at the Yellowstone National Park Wildfires in the Summer of 1988.
Modern-day struggle at James Madison’s plantation Montpelier to include the descendants’ voices of the enslaved
By Stephen P Hanna, Amy Potter, and Derek H. Alderman
Thought By Some to Have Peculiar Powers. (Used to Make Spinning Wheels)
By The Indianapolis News (1899) and The Indianapolis Journal (1901).
The ‘sonnenrad’ used in shooters’ manifestos: a spiritual symbol of hate
By Helen A. Berger