About the Ides of March

Historically, the Ides of March was a day to settle accounts, a day when bills were due, says Jason Moralee, assistant professor of history at Illinois Wesleyan University. Today, we usually associate the day with a settling of another kind of account – the assassination of Roman emperor Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.

Who Discovered America: A Novel Theory

Mount Holyoke College geologist Mark McMenamin's theory about who really discovered the Americas (hint: forget Columbus or the Norsemen) has served as the topic of scholarly articles and college courses. But now McMenamin's idea has appeared in a completely new venue-the latest novel by one of the nation's leading adventure writers: Clive Cussler.

Women Have Their Hour at Swarthmore Library

Leading up to the Spanish-American War in 1898, Susan B. Anthony complained that the Civil War had resulted in the emancipation of the slave, that the coming war was to supposed to liberate the Spanish colonies, and asked, "When will there be a women's hour? We must be patient again." Such comments from Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt and other leaders of the women's suffrage movement are contained in dozens of heretofore unreleased letters that have been donated to the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College.