No evidence supports the existence of haunted houses, but in a largely secular society, an increasing number...
Month: February 2019
Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific...
Could seeing things in black-and-white terms influence people’s views on scientific questions? Lightspring/Shutterstock.com Why do some people reject...
The Milky Way / NASA, Public Domain It is instructive to see how quickly nonsense claims evaporate...
In 1876 Lewis Carroll published by far his longest poem – a fantastical epic tale recounting the...
She disappears and rises back into view, covered in theory. In the year 1900, the eerily disembodied...
Flickr, Creative Commons The recent intrusion of pseudoscience into mainstream scientific literature is a cause for concern....
The spiral of Theodorus up to the triangle with a hypotenuse of √17 / Wikimedia Commons A pseudoscience is...
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons When an expansion in the study of anatomy...
The vanishing of John Knight and his three companions. Introduction On June 19, 1606, John Knight ran...
Examining the diverse body of cultural artifacts against the backdrop of Mammoth Cave as a site of...
How contemporary southeastern Native writers work to repossess homelands that they rearticulate not as “the South” but...
The relationship between the Byzantine Empire and ancient Armenia was a constant and varied one with an...
Its first recorded state proper was the kingdom of Urartu from the 9th century BCE. By Mark...
The Grand Canyon was once a place to avoid. Now it’s a high-traffic marvel. Few sights are...
The social context of cloth from the Neolithic to Bronze Age as seen in the Hallstatt prehistoric...
Study has led to a much deeper understanding of what we mean when we speak of “life”....
Even within the private sector there are stirrings we have not heard in many years. By John...
Exploring the history of post-slavery labor, the harsh conditions of labor camps, and efforts to end the...
Jefferson’s reasoning centered on generational sovereignty and timeliness. It is often acknowledged that Jefferson did much in...
An interview with Dr. Joanne B. Freeman, professor of history and American studies at Yale University, about...
What if, in November, instead of disappearing behind a curtain to exercise your right to vote, you...
A considerable number of Roman roads remained in daily use as core trunk roads for centuries after...
New research has rubbished perceptions of Roman Britain as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans. Our...
The issue of inter-state relations illustrates the political relevance of changing concepts of borders in early modern...
The majority of these processes played out over the long-term, but accelerated since the second half of...
As Islamic activists assumed power across the Arab and Muslim world, they drifted toward autocracy and repression....
Hosay procession in St. James / Photo by Nicholas Laughlin, Creative Commons Hosay, a religious ritual performed by...
Analyzing an eighteenth-century automaton from South Asia in the image of a tiger mauling a British soldier....
Rugendas up the challenging mission of drawing and conveying the New World to Europe. A significant weakness...