I forgot to post this last week! The Rosa Parks archival papers finally got out of their horrible warehouse to be sold at a court auction, and were purchased by the Warren Buffet foundation. Heirs being shitty about papers is more common than you'd think, the MLK Jr papers were tied up for years in a similar fashion. But anyway, Rosa Parks papers, free at last!

No word yet on who will get the papers, but my guess is that it will be the new Smithsonian African American history museum.

Well, the books on both WWI and terrorism are so numerous now I don't even know where to begin. It's beyond impossible keeping up with them, but I knew that would happen with WWI, being 2014 and all. But there is a ton of new input on anarcho terrorism, seeing terror movements in the context of their time, reengaging on questions of religious movements, all kinds of good stuff.

While everyone has been talking about some ship in the Arctic another huge story has broken in archaeology this week: a new Trelleborg fortress has been found in Denmark!

Trelleborgen are a kind of fortress known from the Viking Age in Denmark. They are perfectly circular and are believed to have been erected by king Harald Bluetooth (of wireless communication protocol fame) around 1000 AD. Only three have been identified with any certainty before so this is a major discovery especially since this one yielded wood which will probably allow for precise dendrodating, possibly changing our understanding of the early history of Denmark. More pictures in this Gizmodo article. Original press release [PDF].

I would be curious to hear about the significance of the completion of the Japanese Imperial Household Agency's life of Emperor Hirohito. It was detailed in the Times but it seems like we won't actually learn much of anything new from it. Is that true?

I'm sure we've all heard of the recent discovery of either Erebus or Terror from the Franklin Expedition?