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

In France during World War II, the French police had a large part in implementing the Nazi’s Final Solution. These “ordinary agents of the state,” as historian Laurent Joly calls them, arrested 38,500 ...

A generation before the Civil Rights movement gained national attention, the struggle against Jim Crow was being fought…in Alaska. And women were at the forefront of the struggle. Modern Alaskans, ...

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

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 ...

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

With actual samurai sidelined as Japan modernized in the nineteenth century, Italians were able to cherry-pick the aspects of the samurai’s image that they found most relevant. Some Fascists admired ...

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

In 1829, hundreds of spinners and weavers had gathered at the Norfolk Arms Hotel when the floor collapsed under them. In the tumble, the crowd fell two stories, all the way into the cellar. Thirty ...

After genocide decimated the country’s musicians, old recordings helped a new generation reconnect with Cambodia’s musical past.

Women have mined for centuries, but laws barring them from the industry helped cement the idea that mining was men’s work.

Laser guns have long been a staple of science fiction. Now Chinese researchers claim to have developed a portable laser rifle. It sounds truly horrific; it does not kill, but can set fire to clothes ...