Early robots in the US evolved from symbols of revolt into racialized figures tied to labor and the legacy of slavery. In the American context, where the language of master and slave was rooted in ...

What do sorcerers, bishops, and garden gnomes all have in common? One version or another of a pointy hat. As Jewish Studies scholar Naomi Lubrich writes, these hats all share a common story that runs ...

Fifty years ago, the Women’s Strike for Equality brought tens of thousands of women out onto the street in more than ninety cities. Shortly thereafter, Sisterhood Is Powerful, a collection of key ...

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

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 ...

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

Reggae is distinctively Jamaican music and also music of joy and liberation listened to around the world. And, as historian Victoria Grieves writes, it has a unique history among Aboriginal people of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

When Americans try to beat the heat in the summertime, many find they have no municipal pool in which to swim—the result of deliberate choices made decades ago by white residents who preferred no ...