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 ...

Though identities in the 1950s were just as diverse as they are now, that decade was “an age of cognitive dissonance: millions of people believed in ideals that poorly described their own experience,” ...

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.

“Bluestocking” is a name, often used in a derogatory way, for an intellectual or literary woman. But this was not the word’s original connotation. The story of the first Bluestockings began in ...

On the dusty banks of the Nile River in northern Sudan, archaeologists digging in the “city of the dead” at Sedeinga recently found a huge trove of stone inscriptions in Meroitic, the earliest known ...

In France during World War II, the French police had a large part in implementing the Nazi’s Final Solution. These “ordinary agents of the state,” as historian Laurent Joly calls them, arrested 38,500 ...

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

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 ...

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

A generation before the Civil Rights movement gained national attention, the struggle against Jim Crow was being fought…in Alaska. And women were at the forefront of the struggle. Modern Alaskans, ...

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 ...