At the turn of the 20th century, three Hawaiian cowboys arrived in Wyoming to compete in a...
History
The O.K. Corral is a human-sized, emotionally satisfying revenge drama that affirms our thirst for justice. On...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Examining how topographical views were often the result of artists touring in Britain and beyond. The lawyer Sir...
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most influential scientists of the 19th century. His discoveries have...
Copernicus caused a revolution in contemporary knowledge by stating that science, not religion, explains how the universe...
States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here’s what a Jeffersonian analysis of...