The mathematical and musical life of Tom Lehrer

Haitian independence and the Louisiana Purchase

Missing children in the Heartland

Paul M. Renfro looks at the case of Johnny Gosch who went missing…

The Controversy Behind the First Artificial Heart Transplant

A first-hand account of the beginning of the American Civil War

A Brief History of Pandemics

Explore a brief history of pandemics, from an outbreak of plague in…

Remembering the women’s demonstration of the rue de Buci in occupied Paris

How Johann August Röbling became John A. Roebling

The Myths of the Pilgrims

Francis J. Bremer looks beyond the myths of the Pilgrims as caricatures rooted in Thanksgiving in this excerpt…

Black Muslims in early America

Jeffrey Einboden looks at the moment when President Thomas Jefferson…