For genealogists, family historians and the curious, a long wait is over. The opening of the 1940 census–after the 72-year waiting period–has arrived. The National Archives decided for the first time, in this technological age, to put the scanned and digitized …
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April 15, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s tragic sinking after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Many of the stories of those who survived and those who did not are firmly embedded in popular culture. There …
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Do you know this bird? If not, you could get to know this punk rocker of the bird world and add it to your life list. Its red-crested head is reminiscent of a mohawk hairdo, and it has an attention-grabbing, …
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Bats have gotten a bad rap. For several centuries, folklore and fiction have linked them to vampires and sinister deeds, and these days myths circulate that bats are blind (they’re not), that bats get tangled in our hair (they don’t because their echolocation prevents it) …
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Much of what we know about the tumultuous years of the 1960s and early 1970s came from the mainstream press outlets and especially the newspapers at the time. Coverage of protests and especially the cultural aspects of the “Movement” (art, music, …
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For seven years the University of Missouri-Columbia has hosted the MU Life Sciences & Society Symposium and — nice news — this event is free and open to the public, though you do need to register online. The event’s eighth …
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