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

If learning promotes rationality and wards off superstition, then it stands to reason that Britain’s educated classes gradually lost faith in witches, ghosts, and fairies while the masses took longer ...

Happy holidays! It’s that special time of year to gather with cousins, nephews, and in-laws, as we wear ironic sweaters, drink mulled wine, and reinforce traditional gender roles. “You could call it ...

Peanut butter and jelly. Milk and cookies. Andrew Jackson and … duels? That’s right—the seventh president of the United States had a predilection for old-fashioned fights of honor. Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...

Because the media can frame public events, it has played a large role in shaping how people think of Indigenous peoples’ fight for sovereignty and the integrity of their land. The movie Beans, which ...

The San Juan region in southwestern Colorado was known for its harsh winters. As historian Diana Di Stefano writes, winters “could last up to nine months [and] deep snowfall could make traveling ...

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 ...

After genocide decimated the country’s musicians, old recordings helped a new generation reconnect with Cambodia’s musical past.

Hofstra University’s historic photographs capture Hempstead’s shops and streets before postwar development transformed Long Island.

Women have mined for centuries, but laws barring them from the industry helped cement the idea that mining was men’s work.

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

“American Buddhism” can mean a lot of different things, from silent retreats geared toward tech CEOs to longstanding congregations embedded in Asian immigrant communities. And ’twas ever thus: ...