On June 19th, New York City will unveil a plaque marking the location of the city’s slave market at the corner of Wall and Pearl Streets. This will be the city’s first public marker recognizing this ...

During the Red Scare of the 1950s, rumors abounded that Communist educators planned to infiltrate U.S. schools. So was that true? Not exactly, writes Jonathan Hunt. Turns out that the myth was more ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...