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Solsbury Hill
Bath and North East Somerset, England

Solsbury Hill

An Iron Age hillfort rooted in Arthurian legend was made famous by musician Peter Gabriel.
Lurking off of a South Jersey highway, a Springsteen song come to life.
cold war

For Sale: An Abandoned Cold War Missile Launch Site by the Side of the Road

It's a ghost town, but it's got a pool.
Matthew Taub April 22, 2020
Monticello’s 1,000-foot-long garden terrace served as both a source of food and an experimental laboratory.
museums

At Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's Garden Is Still Growing

Restoring the grounds and its rare, heirloom crops recreated what was effectively the country's first seed bank.
Eric J. Wallace April 21, 2020
List

History Tour: Shakespeare's World of Mysteries

Explore the life of the Bard through 8 curious places.
Jonathan Carey April 21, 2020
Mexico City, Mexico

Pabellón Coreano de la Amistad (Korean Friendship Pavillion)

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Sinagoga El Transito
Toledo, Spain

Sinagoga El Transito

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.
The New-York Historical Society's collection of COVID-19 objects will eventually include these homemade masks, stitched by Heidi Nakashima.
museums

How Museums Will Eventually Tell the Story of COVID-19

Masks, ventilators, and Zoom recordings may one day be the artifacts of our time.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 17, 2020
Tommy the cat is on the left, and Golly on the right.
animals

During the 1918 Flu Epidemic, Pet Parents Put Masks on Their Cats

Yancia the bulldog even made the local paper: "This Seattle Dog Wears Flu Mask."
Anne Ewbank April 16, 2020
If you're at home, sit down for a cup of tea with Joyce Chen.
television

Hobbies to Hone While Hunkering Down, With Help From Public TV

Learn to draw, craft up a storm, or boogie like it's 1979.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 16, 2020
In 1933, Minnie Sun worked as a nurse in the baby ward of the Chinese Hospital. Bruce Lee would be born there seven years later.
hospitals

When Chinese Americans Were Blamed for 19th-Century Epidemics, They Built Their Own Hospital

The Chinese Hospital in San Francisco is still one-of-a-kind.
Claire Wang April 13, 2020
The Shropshire Regiment amid the destruction of homes in Hong Kong, 1894.
medicine

Echoes of the 1894 Plague Still Reverberate in Hong Kong

Death was not the end of the indignities the Chinese community faced during that pandemic.
Courtney Lichterman April 13, 2020
Tools and ingredients used thousands of years ago in Texas are still utilized today.
food

Long Before Tex-Mex, a 15,000-Year-Old Cuisine Left Its Mark

An archeological site contains many of the foods Texans still eat today.
Adán Medrano April 10, 2020
During the flu outbreak of 1918, phone operators took precautions—and many companies asked people to stay off the line.
epidemics

Why Telephone Companies Once Discouraged People From Chatting

Today phones have grown critical for making personal connections. The first phone companies probably wouldn't have been thrilled.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 9, 2020
medicine

In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

The history of unpleasant odor, or miasma, has unexpected relevance in the time of COVID-19.
Daniela Blei April 8, 2020
A bartender serves pear ratafia, inspired by an early-modern European recipe, at Tattersall's 2019 event.
plague

The 1700s Plague Cure That Inspired an Uncannily Contemporary Cocktail

An art historian, a culinary researcher, and a Twin Cities distillery teamed up to recreate the herbaceous drink.
Reina Gattuso April 3, 2020
The Nave Roof of St Peter and St Paul
Shepton Mallet, England

St. Peter and St. Paul's Wagon-Roof

Inside this magnificent 12th-century church is one of the finest carved wagon-roofs in all of England.
A coat of arms from the turn of the 17th century, featuring a plague doctor and, presumably, the Swiss physician Theodore Zwinger III.
plague

European Plague Doctor Garb Was Black, Beaked, and Very Bleak

These haunting uniforms make today's masks look tame.
Isaac Schultz April 2, 2020
Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.
politics

A Look Back at Franklin, America's Lost State

It existed for a brief and treasonous four years.
Madelyn Brown April 2, 2020