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.

What is the “backfire effect?” Most citizens “appear to lack factual knowledge about political matters,” write Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler. Nyhan and Reifler coined the term “backfire effect” to ...

Being an aeronaut, in the early days of hot air or gas ballooning, was a risky endeavor. You might pass out in the thin upper air. Your balloon might crash into a house or go up in a fiery blaze. And ...

Impressionism has made, well, an impression on art historians and art lovers alike since the late nineteenth century, and Edgar Degas is one of the genre’s icons. But the French painter had a secret ...

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 ...

Around 2008, the Anglophone media noticed something interesting happening in Moscow. Dogs were taking the metro, purposefully riding up and down escalators, taking their place in train cars alongside ...

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

There just aren’t that many mibsters shooting taws for keeps as well as funs anymore. Where have all the miggles—the aggies, cabbage leafs, commies, crockies, glassies, peewees, snot-agates, and ...

Trees of the genus Pisonia are not your average tree. They seem like something that would be at home in Middle Earth, or maybe Harry Potter’s wizarding world. The genus is not fully understood, even ...

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 ...