From Flickr User silent stereo
Found this great link at kottke.org…
smarthistory is a fantastic substitute for that art history class you never took in college. [From smarthistory:] smARThistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional and static art history textbook. This looks like a great resource.
From Flickr user jorgeqThis month the Tufts Journal ran an article on the university’s early American historian Benjamin Carp (also one of the earliest and most supportive readers of Boston 1775). Ben’s working on a book about theBoston Tea Party.
Read the whole article at Boston 1775.
From Flickr user mharrsch
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe is the bust of a Roman boxer from the second or third century
Read the whole story at CNN.
From Flickr user confusedvision
[January 27th was] International Holocaust Memorial Day, the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp by the Soviet army, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is in desperate need of renovation. The museum doesn’t have anything like the 120 million dollars needed to restore the rickety barracks and cracked cell walls.
Read the whole story at The History Blog.
From Flickr user boskizzi
During the Revolutionary War, women applied the traditional skills they learned as homemakers to espionage work. Both the British and American armies recruited housewives and young girls as cooks and maids. With their almost unrestricted access to soldiers’ campsites, these women could eavesdrop on conversations about troop movements, leadership changes, and equipment shortages and deliveries without raising suspicion. Often at great peril, they secretly provided this critical intelligence data to military and civilian leaders. Some reported directly to General Washington, who came to highly value the information he received from these “agents in place.”
Read the whole article at History of American Women.
While most people on the front lines would hope to pack a 9mm or better, one Vietnam reporter carried this deadly-looking Bolex 8mm camera gun that did nothing but shoot film.
As Boing Boing Gadgets points out, even if the rifle components offered the shooter some level of stability amidst the whizzing bullets of a war zone, would you ever want to look like you were aiming a gun at someone if you weren’t really aiming a gun at someone?
You can bid on this Bolex H-8 on eBay now (it’s over $1,000), or you can just get your kicks by just reading about all the vintage Bolex cameras instead. [eBay via bbGadgets]
Found via Gizmodo.
Awesome picture of the 1904 New York City subway system. Found via Digg at NYCSubway.org. Full size image here.
A good primary source from medieval times is the MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations. It features Loren Carey MacKinney’s collection of images from medieval medical manuscripts. The site is courtesy of the University of North Carolina.
Found at World History Blog.
