Western meadowlark singing on a fence post at sunrise in Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge near Valentine, Nebraska.

Birding by Ear

How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques.
The cover of the book "The Sandinista Revolution"

The Sandinista Revolution, Reconsidered

A new book from historian Mateo Jarquín seeks to decouple Nicaragua’s unique socialist uprising from reductive Cold War clichés.
The Song of Songs of the Allfather: A Germanic Creed by Adolf Knoll, Jena 1918. Odin Germanic mythology heathenism neopaganism Voelkisch. German National Library. Unidentified illustrator.

“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 Lackawanna Valley by George Inness, 1856

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.
Limestone horse with a rider, middle or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

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.
Illustration of a reception room by M. H. Baillie Scott, 1904

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.
Federal encampment on Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey River, VA, 1862

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.
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Should Yoga Be More Than Exercise?

How should Westerners studying modern postural yoga think about the religious and medical systems in which it developed?
Left front view of flight 46, Orville turning to the left, in the last photographed flight of 1905; Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio

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.
Russian dissident Bukovsky during a press conference at Schiphol Airport, 1977

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.