The Intersection: History, Economics, and Communications

Most recent stories in The Intersection: History, Economics, and Communications

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  James Pinnick

  

  How Andrew Carnegie Turned His Fortune Into A Library Legacy

  NPR - Susan Stamberg

  Andrew Carnegie was once the richest man in the world. Coming as a dirt poor kid from Scotland to the U.S., by the 1880s he'd built an empire in steel — and then gave it all away: $60 million to fund a system of 1,689 public libraries across the country. Carnegie donated $300,000 to build …

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  James Pinnick

  

  Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

  The Atlantic - Jonathan Haidt

  It’s not just a phase. What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great city in the land of Shinar. They built a tower “with its top in the heavens” to “make a name” for themselves. God was …

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  James Pinnick

  

  Artificial intelligence preserving our ability to converse with Holocaust survivors even after they die

  CBS News - By Lesley Stahl

  Most survivors of World War II's Nazi concentration camps are now in their 80s and 90s, and soon there will be no one left who experienced the …

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  James Pinnick

  

  The History Division | AEJMC

  mediahistorydivision.com - Kathryn McGarr

  Rob Wells joined the faculty at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism this spring as a visiting associate professor. He …

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  James Pinnick

  

  The world’s oldest-known recipes decoded

  BBC Travel - Ashley Winchester

  (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing stories that made us fall in love with the world – and this is one our favourites. Click here for the full list). The instructions for lamb stew read more like a list of ingredients than a bona fide recipe: “Meat is used. You prepare water. You add …