Civil War Virginia will eliminate state holiday honoring confederate generals and make Election Day a holiday instead Mark Frauenfelder

movies Trailer for new Harriet Tubman biopic David Pescovitz

gold FBI on the scene where legendary Civil War treasure of $54 million in gold may be buried David Pescovitz

slavery April Ryan asks Sarah Huckabee-Sanders if the White House thinks slavery is wrong Jason Weisberger

architecture The Tombstone House was built with 2200 discarded gravestones Rusty Blazenhoff

books Walt Whitman was into paleo and wrote a “Manly Health and Training” guide with sex tips Xeni Jardin

racism The US Civil War was fought over slavery Jason Weisberger

racism Busting the myth that the Civil War was about "states' rights" Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet Two settlers disappeared from a small Eastern Pacific island in 1934 Futility Closet

novels An interview with Charlie Kaufman about his new novel takes a weirdly meta Kaufman-esque turn Thom Dunn

racism The US Department of Justice was originally created to tackle white supremacy Thom Dunn

racism Facebook says they removed 220 'Boogaloo' groups and 95 Instagram accounts Xeni Jardin

police brutality North Carolina cop: "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— n——" Rob Beschizza

Science NASA delivers first grant in 30 years to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence David Pescovitz

Business Facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest of Black man in Detroit Xeni Jardin

Science "My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy." David Pescovitz

Business Plagued by security woes, Zoom promises end-to-end encryption starting in July Xeni Jardin