Calvin presiding over a colloquium in Geneva, 1549.

When Singing Was a Crime

Calvinist reformers in sixteenth-century Geneva frequently punished people for immoral behavior—like singing.
Gaslighting illustration concept with two hands with tangled string over someone's head

Audacity and Gaslights: Empowering or Zombifying Citizens?

Political scientists Eric Beerbohm and Ryan W. Davis consider how citizens can protect against gaslighting while staying open to audacious ideas of change.
Audrey Erickson, a member of the Arthur Murray Girls, a professional women's baseball team, USA, 1953.

Women Are Reclaiming Their Place in Baseball

Momentum continues to build in the movement to put women back where they belong: on the baseball diamond.
People working with digital database, organizing files in folders on laptop.

Expanding the Possibilities for Preservability

A new tool from NYU Libraries helps authors, publishers, and preservation specialists assess the preservability of evolving digital scholarship.
A dog riding the Moscow metro

Dogs of the Moscow Metro

The public attitude toward the adventurous dogs who have mastered the Moscow metro system has roots in an egalitarian Soviet culture.
Colourful overlapping silhouettes of children in classroom.

Privileged Poor vs. Doubly Disadvantaged

Attendance at elite high schools can shift the practices of college students from disadvantaged backgrounds to being closer to those of middle-class students.
Grains of sand

Sand, Science, and AI in the Renaissance

Well-researched stories from Noema, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
View of Baltimore, Maryland, ca. 1873

Justice in Baltimore

In an atypical case, a white policeman was convicted of killing a Black man at a private house party.
Temüjin being proclaimed as Genghis Khan in 1206, as illustrated in a 15th-century Jami' al-tawarikh manuscript.

How to Govern Like a Mongol

The leaders of the Mongol empire never abandoned their nomadic lifestyles, but they created organizational structures capable of ruling a huge part of the world.
Roy Orbison, 1965

How Roy Orbison’s Repertoire Shaped David Lynch’s Films

Drawing on the nostalgic feelings evoked by Orbison's music, Lynch added new layers to the cinematic traditions of film noir.