Where did Christmas carols come from?
By Ben Olson Reader Staff During the first thousand years of Christianity, Christmas played second fiddle to Easter, the most important feast and celebration of the year. That might sound hard to believe in...
Category: History
Merry Christmas and a happy new fear
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Beloved Christmas traditions like giving gifts, baking cookies and caroling make the modern celebration the most saccharine holiday of the year — at least in the U.S. Christmas wasn’t...
If you want to honor Pearl Harbor, don’t watch the Michael Bay film
By Ben Olson Reader Staff I confess, I’m a sucker for war films. Iconic entries in the genre like Apocalypse Now, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan and Dunkirk are cinematic masterpieces, blending...
Human Rights Day and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
By Barbara Russell Reader Contributor Human Rights Day is celebrated worldwide annually on Dec. 10 to commemorate the day the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, which this...
Mad about Science: Pangaea
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist A lot can happen in a billion years. The continents, as we know them, have not always been laid out in the way they appear on our maps. A...
Napoleonic
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s tempting to say that the new film Napoleon, from director Ridley Scott, which premiered in theaters just before Thanksgiving, comes at an apt time — given how many...
Museum ‘Repeal Party’ fundraiser marks 90th anniversary of Prohibition’s end
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There are few better ways to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the repeal of the Prohibition than hanging out at one of the oldest bars in town, listening to...
Mad About Science: Book binding
By Brendon Bobby Reader Columnist Book binding is an art that goes back to at least the fifth century B.C.E. This process could be even older but we don’t have a historical record of...
Idaho’s unofficial state bird
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Most people probably already know that the turkey is a uniquely North American bird — a fact primarily responsible for its central role in the also uniquely North American...
Mike’s Corner: Quite the scandal
By Mike Wagoner Reader Contributor Archaeologists keep finding cool things out about us… our early history as a species… Homo Sapiens, baby… that’s who we are. Evidently an early prototype of us appeared in...
