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New books and scholarship from University of North Carolina, Harvard University Press, and University of Minnesota Press.

Medieval monks used labor-saving innovations like the mill not to increase productivity, but to free up more time for what they wanted to do.

In the Victorian era, a different kind of ghostwriting became popular—largely because it allowed men to take all the credit.

Finland's forest fires aren't as destructive as California's. That has more to do with climate and population than with forest management.

Scientists pinpoint poaching hotspots, but authorities aren’t always eager to join the fight.

Well-researched stories from The Boston Globe, Pacific Standard, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Back in the 1960s, scholars were making predictions about what the Age of Automation would look like. Where they right?

H. G. Wells's famous science fiction novel imagines what would happen if Martians did to Great Britain what Europeans did to Tasmania.

Swathes of the Amazon rainforest are set aside for Indigenous peoples to manage. While they aren't conservation areas, they are important to the ecosystem.