Founded in 1865, St. Thomas, Nevada, was initially settled by Mormons drawn by Muddy Creek, a tributary...
Washington Irving leaves Gotham to explore the frontier. As he entered New York City on May 21,...
What we think we know about the arrival of Homo sapiens on this continent. In the 1970s,...
And Donald Trump is fanning the flames by encouraging the violent ideology. White terroristic activity has been...
The journalist’s witty Paris Letters for the New Yorker helped establish Americans’ feelings of superiority over Europe....
Without a doubt, the most influential concept in German university history is that of the “unity of...
Behind every manuscript map lies an individual’s hand. Originally published by the Harvard Map Collection, republished with...
Exploring how British Library maps chart the evolution of man’s understanding of the earth and cosmos. Introduction...
Capturing forts was necessary as enemy capitals were usually fortified and no invader could proclaim victory without...
The ancient Indian naval ships protected trade and carried troops to war zones. Introduction The navy in...
Wondering how coffee and barbecue will go hand-in-hand? Check out this guide to understand how to make...
A person’s political identity is wrapped up in almost everything they do. Exposure to opinions from the...
The art of Florida’s Highwaymen finds a new audience. It was an era when most African Americans...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was buried in an unmarked grave, but now she’s a YouTube sensation. More than...
When the Supreme Court exempted suburbs in the North from the kind of desegregation orders imposed in...
The Civilian Conservation Corps, Racial Segregation, and the Building of the Angeles National Forest

The Civilian Conservation Corps, Racial Segregation, and the Building of the Angeles National Forest
Obscured in the Angeles’ history is the role that all-African-American CCC camps played in the development of...
In the South, segregation reproduced the racial inequality found under slavery. By Angelina Grigoryeva and Martin Ruef...
In the lawless post-Civil War Ozarks, the vigilante Bald Knobbers took government’s place. When I was seven...
Were the Copperheads traitors or merely exercising the right to criticize the government? To what extent did...
Jack Kerouac’s study of Buddhism started in earnest in 1953 and is traditionally believed to have ended...
On the author’s bicentennial, American readers could use a dose of his unique ability to fuse realism...
When it masks a political agenda or when it justifies violence either by groups or state actors,...
England became one of the greatest producers of new Catholic relics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom, 09.26.2017, Newberry Library, republished with permission for educational,...
Nearly half of young LGBT people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds....
An ancient Roman fable imagines a cinaedus, well-known for his brazen effeminacy, fighting heroically. Introduction On August...
Abandoned when the larger Etruscan towns struggled to meet the demands of their growing urban population and...
Two defining technologies of nineteenth-century America—railroads and photography—developed largely in parallel and brought about drastic changes in...
Exploring Britain’s railways from 1812 to 2007. 1812: The First Effective Locomotive-Powered Railway The coal-carrying Middleton Railway,...
A GPS for sixteenth-century travelers. By Mary Alexandra Agner Like many other familiar objects, the road map...