Posts Tagged ‘US history’
Gambling was a good bet in early baseball
TEXAS A&M (US) — Players, fans, and even umpires gambled on every aspect of early baseball games, and that’s how players made money, according to a new history of the sport. Continue…
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Society & Culture - Jan 30, 2013 17:35 - 0 Comments
Archaic tribe built mound in under 90 days
WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — The speedy construction of an earthen mound challenges assumptions about the social structure of early American hunter-gatherers. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jan 28, 2013 11:37 - 0 Comments
Penicillin, not the pill, sparked sex revolution
EMORY (US) — Non-traditional, riskier sex lives didn’t start in the 1960s, according to an analysis that suggests a treatment for syphilis changed attitudes and behavior. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 6, 2012 15:59 - 3 Comments
How the US Civil War changed journalism
PENN STATE (US) — New technologies and a growing demand for information during the US Civil War forever changed the nation’s press, according to a book by journalism professor Ford Risley. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 15, 2012 11:43 - 1 Comment
US-Mexico conflict fueled anti-war movement
PENN STATE (US) — The Mexican-American War sparked the first truly national anti-war movement in the US, says historian Amy Greenberg. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 13, 2012 13:05 - 0 Comments
How ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ took over US stages
U. VIRGINIA (US) — The best-selling novel of the 19th century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, morphed into live performances across the US, which ranged from moral dramas to racist spectacles. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 2, 2012 10:08 - 9 Comments
FDR’s economic policy: top of class
GEORGIA TECH (US) — A newly-released report card that grades presidents on their economic performance names Franklin D. Roosevelt class valedictorian. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 23, 2012 10:49 - 2 Comments
Cartoons depict 100 years of health care debate
U. ROCHESTER (US) — A new history of health care reform looks at 100 years of partisan wrangling over medical insurance via more than 200 of the century’s best political cartoons. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 10, 2012 12:12 - 4 Comments
Do presidents need ‘psychopathic boldness’?
EMORY (US) — The fearless dominance associated with psychopathy may predict how well US presidents perform in office, researchers say. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 6, 2012 9:55 - 0 Comments
Why yellow fever hit Irish immigrants hardest
U. WARWICK (UK) — New research explains why almost half of the 650 people killed by yellow fever in Savannah, Georgia, in 1854 were Irish immigrants. (more…)
Society & Culture - Jul 26, 2012 11:57 - 1 Comment
Anti-Nazi games protested 1936 Berlin Olympics
U. WARWICK (UK) — A new online archive offers a glimpse of the People’s Olympiad, an unrealized alternative to the 1936 Olympics held in Nazi-ruled Berlin. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 3, 2012 15:50 - 0 Comments
Parts of Jefferson’s Monticello revived in 3D
U. VIRGINIA (US) — A digital recreation of lost structures at Monticello brings parts of Thomas Jefferson’s home back to life for visitors. (more…)
