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.

In the sixteenth century, Kongo’s government trained young nobles to provide interpretation and cultural mediation between Europeans and Kongolese.

We often credit unexpected events to serendipity. But who amongst us knows The Three Princes of Serendip, the tale from which the word derives?