BBC

100 Objects #4: Lowe's Gas Bag

In 1861, one man and a “gas bag” filled with hydrogen sparked America's obsession with going higher, farther, into the unknown. In this episode, Roman Mars and journalist Jack Hitt tell the story of ...
BBC

100 Objects #5: Blue Back Speller

Why did an ordinary schoolbook become so treasured that enslaved people risked their lives to possess it? In this episode, Roman and historian Imani Perry follow the Webster Blue Back Speller from the ...
The New York Times

Audio Nonfiction

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. New this week by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Simon & Schuster Audio Two White House correspondents for The New York Times delve into the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Objects Begin to Tell the Story of Women’s History in America

Thirteen artifacts from the National Museum of American History chronicle profound changes in the life of the nation Photographs by Jessica Antola by Robin Marantz Henig The sexual revolution didn’t ...
Nature

Compact astrophysical objects articles from across Nature Portfolio

Compact objects are compact stellar remnants, such as white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes and specific types of these objects (e.g., pulsars and boson stars), as well as their larger ...