What happens when an oil-rich island paradise interrupts its production of petroleum? You may have to visit the Caribbean island of Aruba to find out.

Since the early days of African enslavement in Brazil, Black Brazilians have cultivated rituals that mix Catholic and African elements in the form of holy Samba.

This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.

And how we may have finally found some.

Why did Georgian-era England go mad for dangerous hoaxes, and what can that mania tell us about today’s volatile, content-hungry world?

The local British tried to bar Chinese traders from Australian shipping routes. Louis Ah Mouy, Lowe Kong Meng, and Cheong Cheok Hong had something to say about it.

An instructor shares her approach for teaching students how to evaluate historical materials and claims of veracity made by their originators.

Well-researched stories from Eos, Black Perspectives, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

This month’s puzzle features a nod to the Second City.

Playing up the threat of the communist incursions, the Shah of Iran gained more and more support—financial and political—from the United States.