History & Society
National Geographic
Pandemic victims are filling NYC’s Hart Island. It isn’t the first time.
April 13, 2020
Narratively
She Caught Bullets with Her Bare Hands — and Made Magic’s Glass Ceiling Disappear
June 13, 2018
The New York Times
The Graves of Forgotten New Yorkers
March 18, 2014
Wellcome Collection
Spanish flu and the depiction of disease
October 16, 2019
Lapham’s Quarterly
Remember You Will Be Buried
March 12, 2020
Hyperallergic
Century-Old School Chalkboard Drawings Offer a History Lesson June 11, 2015
Curbed
Finding space in New York City’s cemeteries
July 19, 2018
Hudson Valley – Times Union
Hulda the witch: The other legend of Sleepy Hollow
October 11, 2021
Mental Floss
Caroline Weldon, 19th Century Indigenous Rights Advocate and Sitting Bull’s Secretary
April 10, 2018
Narratively
Minik and the Meteorite
March 19, 2013
Bunk History
What the Viral Media of the Civil War Era Can Teach Us About Prejudice
June 12, 2018
JSTOR Daily
Surviving a Pandemic, in 1918
March 21, 2020
Atlas Obscura
Belle Starr the Bandit Queen: How a Southern Girl Became a Legendary Southern Outlaw
April 3, 2013
The Offing
The Victorian Angel Guides of Death
October 31, 2018
Order of the Good Death
Caring for a Community of the Dead
March 18, 2018
Hyperallergic
The Forgotten First Woman Violinist to Perform on the American Stage
April 27, 2016
Brooklyn Based
A Tale of Two Explorers: Frederick Cook & Robert Peary
December 4, 2012
Wellcome Collection
The island of unclaimed bodies
February 5, 2020
Arts & Culture
Raw Vision
Over the Psychic Radio: Grant Wallace
Winter Issue 2022-23
CityLab
The New Art Galleries: Urban Cemeteries
April 18, 2019
Chicago Magazine
An Artist Addresses the Field Museum’s Problematic Native American Hall
January 8, 2019
Public Domain Review
Photographing the Dark: Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs October 24, 2019
Nightingale
Georgiana Houghton Visualized A World Beyond Death
September 27, 2019
Hyperallergic
The Robots Being Built to Cross the US-Mexico Border
April 14, 2016
Glasstire
First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone at the Nasher
February 26, 2018
Dilletante Army
Deciphering the Graven Messages of the Dead
October 29, 2019
Wellcome Collection
Native Americans through the 19th-century lens
March 22, 2018
Curbed
Restoring Louise Nevelson’s sanctuary of stillness in Midtown October 1, 2018
Raw Vision
Crossing Borders: Stories of US-Mexico Migration through Retablos Summer 2019 Issue
Art & Object
Rediscovering a Forgotten Woman Modernist Inspired by Nature’s Unseen Forces
March 13, 2020
Hyperallergic
Saving the Art and Home of Mary Nohl, Whose Neighbors Called Her a Witch
August 16, 2017
Glasstire
Hopi Visions: The Journey of an Indigenous History Mural
February 19, 2018
Hyperallergic
Artist Damien Echols Embraces the Magic Symbols that Helped Send Him to Death Row
December 23, 2016
Public Domain Review
Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras
February 7, 2018
Hyperallergic
From Courbet to the Bronx, The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Names Gets Marriage Memorial
October 10, 2011
Architecture & Design
Urban Omnibus
An Urban System of Death
January 9, 2019
Collectors Weekly
Great Glass Coffin Scam: When Hucksters Sold the Fantasy of Death Without Decay
February 22, 2019
Slate
The Most Metal Cemetery in New York
November 13, 2014
Atlas Obscura
Long Abandoned Clock Tower is Returning to Life in Queens
April 25, 2014
Hyperallergic
A Visit to New York City’s New Subterranean Archaeological Repository
January 4, 2017
Hyperallergic
Climbing into a Mortuary Drawer to Smell the Scents of JFK’s Last Moments
April 19, 2016
Nature & Science
CityLab
Night of the Living Synanthropes
September 24, 2018
Hyperallergic
Why a Bronx Herbarium of 7.8 Million Plants Is One of New York’s Most Valuable Resources
April 11, 2017
Wellcome Collection
Graveyards as green getaways
June 3, 2020
Lady Science/The New Inquiry
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
September 20, 2018
CityLab
Uncovering the Seeds of a Post-Lawn Future
September 30, 2019
Hyperallergic
Researchers Bury Their Noses in Books to Sniff Out the Morgan Library’s Original Smell
February 28, 2017
Brooklyn Based
The Singularly Curious Weeping Elm
October 16, 2012
Hyperallergic
A Forest Elegy for the Rapidly Vanishing American Hemlock Tree
January 10, 2018
CityLab
The Ancient Forests That Have Defied Urbanization
May 22, 2018
CityLab/Narratively
On the Trail of New York’s Greatest Trees
April 17, 2017
Atlas Obscura
From Blue Whale Skull to Narwhal Tusks, Behind-the-Scenes at the Smithsonian Marine Mammals Collection
October 17, 2014
Order of the Good Death
How Gardening Neglected Victorian Graves Brought Community to a Philadelphia Cemetery
June 5, 2019