Memories of talk” in after-the-fact minutes are as suspect as any other memories. “One problem with such recollections is ...

A five-step classroom exercise reframes research as an evolving scholarly conversation rather than a search for sources.

Photos from the American Library in Paris reveal how librarians brought books to US troops during World War I.

The phrases sound biblical: “Plagues of locusts;” “pestilential destroyers;” the “greatest of all terrors.” In reality, these quotes come from Texas, which was on the southern edge of the enormous ...

As the congressional midterm elections draw closer, pundits are predicting that the incumbent party can expect to lose seats. Political scientists note that is a regular pattern. It usually happens ...

A recent, startling report from a British government commission found that executives judge recruits more by their accents and other markers of social class than by their actual qualifications. In a ...

When Americans try to beat the heat in the summertime, many find they have no municipal pool in which to swim—the result of deliberate choices made decades ago by white residents who preferred no ...

Wayward pythons are not uncommon in the Australian bush. Still, one camp manager was quite surprised when a python she relocated began to cough up its last meal: an even larger python. A snake’s ...

Three nineteenth-century memoirs reveal the risks and rewards of life on the road as a traveling bookseller.

Looking back at the era of the American Revolution, we often view the southern colonies and their dependence on enslavement as rural and old-fashioned, in contrast to the urban proto-capitalism of the ...

The Continental Divide is the hydrological boundary between watersheds that drain into the Pacific and those that drain into the Atlantic. It runs from the Bering Strait in Alaska to the Strait of ...

What did Hadrian’s Wall actually do? Its history challenges the idea that walls simply separate one side from another.