Well-researched stories from The Guardian, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The manly knight wouldn't have lasted a day in sixteenth-century combat. So why was he so popular as a literary figure at the time?

Dogs were prolific hunters and warm companions for northeastern Native peoples like the Mi'kmaq.

Some journalists are turning to newsletters to get their work out. But they're not hand-copying them onto folded paper, like people did in the 1600s.

Dogs have long played a big role in the White House.

Some nineteenth-century novelists predicted horrible futures, with perfectly horrible clothing to match.

The best-selling author supported the Kaiser during World War I. What made him change his mind about politics later?

European travellers and anthropologists found that their gendered worldview didn’t easily map onto the societies they encountered.

How have workers around the world sought to change their conditions, and how have racial divisions affected their efforts?

The political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. on the Black Lives Matter movement, the “rich peoples’ wealth gap,” and his Marxism.