History

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M.M. Blume

Books
Arts

'Fallout' Tells The Story Of The Journalist Who Exposed The 'Hiroshima Cover-Up'

2:46pm August 19, 2020

by Dave Davies

Lesley M.M. Blume's new book tells the story of John Hersey, the young journalist whose on-the-ground reporting in Hiroshima, Japan, exposed the world to the devastation of nuclear weapons.

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Amateur Treasure Hunters Dig For Artifacts In Their Own Backyard

6:21am August 17, 2020

During the pandemic lockdown, more people are digging up treasure troves of historical items. In Scotland, a man with a metal detector found a trove of Bronze Age artifacts including a sword.

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Tennessee freshman delegate Harry Burn and his mother Febb, who urged him to vote for the 19th amendment in a letter.

National

The Nudge And Tie Breaker That Took Women's Suffrage From Nay To Yea

5:11am August 17, 2020

by Melissa Block

Tennessee was the final state needed to ratify the amendment that secured women the right to vote. At the last moment, a young state legislator switched his vote to yes after his mom asked him to.

National

How Mt. Vernon's History Is Being Retold

5:40pm August 15, 2020

by Esther Ciammachilli

The history of George Washington's plantation is being retold to focus on the people who were enslaved there.

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Former Salvadoran official Inocente Orlando Montano attends a trial in Madrid on June 8 for his alleged role in the killing of five Spanish priests in El Salvador in 1989.

World News

Priest Killing Case In Spain Raises Hope For Justice

2:53pm August 13, 2020

by Deborah Amos

A court in Madrid is due to rule next month on murder and terrorism charges against an ex-Salvadoran military officer alleged to have played a key role in the 1989 executions of five Spanish priests.

A new study of Deinosuchus or "terror crocodiles," led by Adam Cosette, offers a fuller picture of the ancient creature from head to tail. Cossette said Deinosuchus had large, robust teeth, ranging from six to eight inches long, as shown in the photo.

Science

'Teeth The Size Of Bananas'; New Study Paints Picture Of 'Terror Crocodiles'

11:24am August 12, 2020

by Gabriela Saldivia

A new study reveals there were multiple species of Deinosuchus, the giant crocodylians that lived 75 million years ago. They were among the largest predators in the ecosystem and ate dinosaurs.

Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast, by Marjoleine Kars

In 'Blood On The River,' The Berbice Rebellion Foreshadows Later Insurgencies

7:59am August 12, 2020

by Martha Anne Toll

Marjoleine Kars recounts a tale of oppression, bloodshed, and some triumph in her previously untold account of the 1763-64 slave rebellion in Dutch Berbice, modern day Guyana.

The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Auguste Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose. Above, The Thinker (Le Penseur) is pictured ahead of t

Arts

Good Thinking: How Rodin Ensured The Financial Future Of His Paris Museum

7:55am August 09, 2020

by Rebecca Rosman

The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose.

Since Aug. 6, 1945, artists of every stripe have had to reckon with a world forever altered by nuclear weapons — Hollywood included. Above, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Arts

'And The World Went Crazy': How Hollywood Changed After Hiroshima

5:24pm August 06, 2020

by Bob Mondello

Nuclear weapons have given Hollywood a host of dramatic plot possibilities, from the threat of nuclear war to wholesale destruction to over-the-top fireworks.

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bows Thursday in front of a memorial to people who were killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Raising New Questions 75 Years Later

12:51pm August 06, 2020

by David Welna

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were said at the time to be justified as the only way to end World War II. Seventy-five years later, legal experts say they would now be war crimes.

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