Evidence-led history, clearly told.
Source-aware profiles of historical figures, their decisions, contexts, legacies, and the limits of the surviving evidence.
On October 23, 1826, a wealthy British chemist named James Smithson wrote a will containing one of the strangest gifts in American history. Smithson had never visited the United States.…
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