History and World Cultures AUM

09/28/2026

09/26/2026

This event is tomorrow and one of our history grads will be selling her delicious cookies, mini cakes, and other goodies! The weather should be perfect so come out and support a fellow history lover!

09/24/2026

Out on the dry grasslands and desert margins of Mongolia, a herding family's survival can hinge on whether a mother camel accepts her calf. When she rejects it, refusing to let it nurse, the newborn's chances drop fast. No amount of pushing the two together tends to change her mind.

So the herders turn to a ritual that treats the problem as emotional rather than mechanical. A singer sits close to the agitated mother and begins a slow, repetitive chant, often joined by the deep drone of a horse-head fiddle. That two-stringed instrument anchors so much Mongolian music, and the performer watches the animal closely, bending the melody to her changing mood.

The session can stretch on for a long while, the music circling and softening as the camel's resistance wears down. Herders describe the mother gradually calming under the sound and standing quieter. They say that at the crucial moment she sometimes sheds tears before lowering her guard and letting the calf reach the milk it needs.

The ritual, known as the coaxing ceremony, was captured on film in The Story of the Weeping Camel and inscribed by UNESCO in 2015 as heritage worth protecting. In a part of the world where people and animals depend on each other completely, the tool that saves a calf's life turns out to be a song.

09/22/2026

Open and free to the public!

09/14/2026

New movie depicts a vicious N**i death camp guard, who lived for years in Queens undetected

09/09/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19KCq7otCe/

"The last row translates to 'It's on the tablet.'" — Imogen K.

RACKENRIDGE MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES — Researchers announced Tuesday that a 4,100-year-old limestone tablet, roughly the size and shape of a large ostrich egg and inscribed with nine rows of pictographs, is one of the earliest known examples of written language and was produced by a teacher who had been asked to repeat the directions a fourth time. Lead researcher Ms. Kaminski said the first three rows translate to "name at the top," "number your answers" and "read all of this before you start," and that the deepening grooves toward the bottom indicate the author "pressed harder as she went."

The tablet was carved in a single sitting and, according to wear patterns on its surface, was subsequently held up and pointed at thousands of times. Ms. Kaminski said the fourth row, long interpreted as a religious symbol, is now understood to depict a figure with one hand on its forehead.

Eighth-grade teacher Mr. Navarro, who consulted on the project, identified the sixth row as "yes, this is for a grade" without any assistance. The museum has placed the artifact at the entrance to its new exhibit, where visitors who ask staff where the exhibit is will be directed to the tablet.

09/04/2026

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions https://theonion.com/historians-politely-remind-nation-to-check-whats-happen-1819572992/

09/03/2026

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