Ellen Wexler
Assistant Digital Editor at Smithsonian
Assistant digital editor, humanities @SmithsonianMag // previously @MomentMagazine
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5 days ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Ellen Wexler
When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who preceded him may offer insight into his approach to the papacy About two weeks after Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, the conclave to elect his successor began inside the Sistine Chapel. The 133 cardinals gathered inside reached their decision after two days of deliberations.
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2 weeks ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Ellen Wexler
Women Who Shaped History A Smithsonian magazine special report The Six Triple Eight cleared a years-long backlog of mail in just three months. Eighty years later, the unit is finally getting the recognition it deserves When Congress voted to bestow its highest honor on the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in 2022, only six members of the 855-person World War II unit were still alive.
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3 weeks ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Ellen Wexler
Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the countryside, spreading the alarm on April 18, 1775 Hours before the first shots of the American Revolution rang out, 700 British soldiers stationed in Boston mobilized under cover of darkness, hoping to stop the war in its tracks.
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1 month ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Ellen Wexler
History | This year marks the writer’s 100th birthday. Through fiction anchored in her Southern background and Catholic faith, O’Connor revealed how candid confrontations with darkness lead to moments of reckoning When the film Gone With the Winddebuted in 1939, an extravagant premiere gala unfolded over three days in downtown Atlanta. Thousands gathered outside Loew’s Grand Theater, which had been decorated to resemble a Southern plantation home, to watch the stars arrive.
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2 months ago |
smithsonianmag.com | Jimmy Stamp |Ellen Wexler
History | The invention’s true origin story has long been the subject of debate. Some argue it was created to prevent typewriter jams, while others insist it’s linked to the telegraph A few years after the iPhone’s debut, an innovative new keyboard system started making headlines. Known as KALQ, the split-screen design was created specifically for thumb-typing on smartphones and tablets.
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Paul Revere was immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‘s famous poem, but he wasn’t the only midnight rider on April 18, 1775 https://t.co/So6qsQwbGo
Flannery O'Connor believed that writing fiction was a "plunge into reality," rather than an escape from it. Today marks her 100th birthday. I wrote about why her unflinching vision still resonates https://t.co/37b8MB76rm
"Nickel Boys" was inspired by a brutal Florida reform school, where roughly 50 unmarked graves were discovered during investigations in 2016. I wrote about the film and the 111-year-history that inspired it https://t.co/COvZYuUkCU
