Birding by Ear
How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques.
The Sandinista Revolution, Reconsidered
A new book from historian Mateo Jarquín seeks to decouple Nicaragua’s unique socialist uprising from reductive Cold War clichés.
“Border Science” vs. Commercial Occultism: A Nazi Debate
Occultism was widely embraced under the Third Reich, complicating Nazi attempts to wield it as a weapon against internationalism and other undesirable ideologies.
The Art of Deforestation
Landscape paintings show how quickly American forests changed in the early nineteenth century—and the mixed feelings people had about that change.
Horse Riders, Climate Disease, and Legal Guardianship
Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Arts and Crafts Democracy
The Arts and Crafts and Slow Food movements twinned pleasure and democracy though supporters of these artisanal crusades developed a reputation for elitism.
How the Union Lost the Remembrance War
The victors of the American Civil War failed to write their story into the history books, leaving a gap for the mythologizing of the Confederacy.
Should Yoga Be More Than Exercise?
How should Westerners studying modern postural yoga think about the religious and medical systems in which it developed?
A Practical Machine: The Wright Brothers in Dayton
Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to create a practical machine—not a novelty or a gimmick—and they accomplished that at Ohio’s Huffman Prairie on October 5, 1905.
Dissident Memoirs Across Rust-Iron Curtains
Soviet dissident memoirs, like their authors, had to cross the Iron Curtain—an iron curtain of meaning and interpretation.