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Science News
April 29, 2006 |
From the April 25, 1936, Issue War Tower in Bible Was "Old-Fashioned" Even Then... Chemists Debate Value of Alcohol Blend for Car Fuel... Atoms and Cosmic Rays Yield New Science Knowledge...   |
Smithsonian
May 2006
Joshua Kurlantzick |
Destination America: Hallowed Highway From Gettysburg to Monticello, a 175 mile thoroughfare leads through a rich concentration of national history. |
American History
June 2006
Logan Thomas Snyder |
President Dwight Eisenhower and America's Interstate Highway System With the stroke of a pen on June 29, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower set in motion the realization of a long-held dream: the construction of a spectacular system of highways that would tie America together as never before. |
Military History
May 2006
David A. Johnson |
Battle of Lewes: Revolt of the Barons On May 14, 1264, King Henry III confronted Simon de Montfort and his noblemen, but it was the impetuous Prince Edward who decided the outcome of the battle. |
Science News
April 22, 2006 |
From the April 18, 1936, issue Night-illuminated museum offers "spooky" sights... Importance of heredity as cause of cancer stressed... |
Geotimes
April 2006 |
This Month in History... April 18, 1906: The Great Earthquake Destroys San Francisco Those few individuals who were involved in the relatively new science of seismology quickly journeyed to San Francisco that long ago April to see for themselves the effects of the disaster, to record their observations in scientific terms, and to hypothesize on its causes. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 17, 2006
Martha Lagace |
The Ancient Roots of Today's Financial Tools Aside from coauthoring books on modern finance topics such as equity risk premiums, modern portfolio theory, and investment analysis, William Goetzmann also co-edited The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets. |
Science News
April 15, 2006 |
From the April 11, 1936, Issue Hoarders of Life... Alcohol Harmless to Liver But Excess Increases Its Fat... Brain Waves New Tool for Watching Workings of Mind... |
Aviation History
May 2006
R.E. van Patten |
Hanna Reitsch: Hitler's Female Test Pilot Groundbreaking pilot Hanna Reitsch set more than 40 records in her lifetime. But she was tragically slow to recognize the ruin into which the Nazis were leading her homeland. |
Reason
April 2006
Amy H. Sturgis |
The Myth of the Passive Indian Book Reviews: Was America before Columbus just a "continent of patsies"? 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann. |
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