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.

It’s difficult to think of a world with clearer gender roles than the Old West, or at least the Old West as we know it from movies, television shows, and genre novels. But when historian Peter Boag ...

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

A spiderweb sparkling in the sunlight can be a truly beautiful sight, but these webs have some additional surprises. The strength-to-weight ratio of the material is remarkable, and spiders seem to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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.