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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

With actual samurai sidelined as Japan modernized in the nineteenth century, Italians were able to cherry-pick the aspects of the samurai’s image that they found most relevant. Some Fascists admired ...

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

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

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