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

For Christians, suicide has traditionally been regarded as a sin. This confronts would-be suicides with a dilemma, suffering the kind of depression that offers no hope, yet fearing they face eternity ...

When Frank O’Hara died in 1966 at the age of forty, he left behind a vibrant community of writers in New York City—one he had already begun to shape and influence. Ted Berrigan memorialized O’Hara in ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Wayward pythons are not uncommon in the Australian bush. Still, one camp manager was quite surprised when a python she relocated began to cough up its last meal: an even larger python. A snake’s ...

What happened when the Beat Generation bumped up against the popular culture they were rebelling against? Historian Stephen Petrus writes about how the youth subculture was turned into a commodity.

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 ...

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 ...