I’ve been sorting through the recommended websites and blogs on my site and I’ve come across quite a few interesting links for this week’s historical highlights.
Let’s start with some history-related news.
- National Geographic has digitized all the maps they’ve published since 1888.
- Special Olympics is 50 years old.
- A stolen tomahawk was returned to the New York State Museum after 70 years.
I love to hear about archival mysteries being solved.
- Why did Percy Bysshe Shelley sign his poem “Ozymandias,” GLIRASTES? (See also: my post about the poem)
- How do you track down a family found in old slides at a thrift store?
Here are some recent blog posts about food history.
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to…
Finally, some eye candy:
- Photos of an expedition to capture a Nazi radio outpost in Greenland.
- Beautiful (forged!) early modern book bindings.