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 ...

Does signing up to be crucified take ethnography too far? Anthropologist Julius Bautista once had to confront this unexpected question while doing fieldwork in Cutud, San Fernando. This barangay or ...

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.

Turtle soup is one of those foods that has almost passed out of memory. Our tastes have changed. But as recently as half a century ago, tourists in Florida could still be served the stuff, along with ...

The long “Red Summer of 1919” saw a brutal outburst of mob violence directed against African Americans across the country. James Weldon Johnson, field secretary of the NAACP, was the one to name it ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

In the beginning, Abner Doubleday established the rules for baseball on a field outside Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. And the future Civil War general saw what he had made, and it was good. Not so ...