http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/history.html History headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/history.html 88 31 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/pandemic-0411.html The widespread assumption that pandemic influenza is an exceptionally deadly form of seasonal, or nonpandemic, flu is hard to support, according to a new MIT study in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/pandemic-0411.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0409.html John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, teased out the threads connecting cultures of war from individual nations' densely woven rhetoric about victory in his Killian award lecture, presented Monday, April 7, at MIT. Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0409.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0402.html John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, will speak on "Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq" at the 36th annual Killian Award lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in Kirsch Auditorium. Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/dower-tt0402.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/pyramid-tt0402.html Even though they are among the best-known structures on Earth, the pyramids of Egypt may still hold surprises. This spring, an MIT class is testing a controversial theory that some of these structures may consist of concrete. Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/pyramid-tt0402.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/new-orleans-0401.html A new book of essays on rediscovered photographs of New Orleans in 1867, written by the curator of architecture and design at the MIT Museum, shows how the city tried to rebuild its economy and retrieve its prestige in the aftermath of war. Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/new-orleans-0401.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/raft-tt0319.html Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and traveled from modern-day Chile to western Mexico, according to new findings by MIT researchers. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/raft-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/prehistoric-0306.html MIT Senior Technical Instructor Dick Perdichizzi prepares a lifesize model of a prehistoric four-winged bird-like creature for testing in Aero-Astro's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel. Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/prehistoric-0306.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ancient-wine-1029.html For the first time, researchers have identified DNA from inside ceramic containers in an ancient shipwreck on the seafloor, making it possible to determine what the ship's cargo was even though there was no visible trace of it. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ancient-wine-1029.html