Lindley: Smells Like Victory

Robin Lindley interviews Robert Neer, author of a book on the history of napalm, for History News Network. Robin and Professor Neer give us the full story on the incendiary chemical, going much further back than Vietnam, the war that is often associated with napalm....

Nijhuis: Right There in Black and White

Forget your camera phone, writes Michelle Nijhuis in the New Yorker. A 19th-century daguerreotype can be clearer than any digital snapshot. See for yourself in the slideshow (including Abe, of course) accompanying Michelle’s exploration of the science, history, and...