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

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

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

If you’ve seen the abbreviation MSG lately, there’s a good chance it was on the menu of a Chinese restaurant assuring customers that they don’t use the stuff. So it might surprise you to know that MSG ...

The recent news about the stunning decline in North American bird populations should remind us that we’ve been in similar situations before. A century ago, laws were enacted to stop the wanton ...

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 happened when the Beat Generation bumped up against the popular culture they were rebelling against? Historian Stephen Petrus writes about how the youth subculture was turned into a commodity.

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 ...

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 ...

When a rare copy of Galileo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius came on the market in 2005, there was talk it could reach a sales price of $10 million. It was, after all, supposed to be a unique version of one ...

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 ...

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