In the 1920s, some people thought that the new invention of radio would make American farmers less "backward."

File under: “don’t try this at home.”

Scholars of early modern England have shown how plague and protest are often correlated. The Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, for example.

Covering concepts from spillover to virus mutation, this collection of free-to-access readings provides scientific context around the COVID-19 pandemic.

Compiled by graduate students in a 2016 course on “Activism and Digital Culture,” at University of Southern California.

In Maya culture, rulers used stingray spines in bloodletting rituals. Researchers have ideas about why.

Well-researched stories from Mel Magazine, The Cut, and more great publications that that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Using aluminum as a case study, a geographer shows how wartime "commodity chains" can devastate the Earth.

The Beatles first played Hamburg's pleasure zone in 1960, in a former strip club near the infamous Reeperbahn.

Underrepresented in the country's newsrooms, Black journalists found an outlet on public affairs shows like Black Journal.