Dancers prepare to enter the contest powwow at the 100th Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial at Red Rock Park on August 13, 2022

Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day: A Reading List

With scholarship on Indigenous knowledge, environmental justice, resistance, and decolonization, this list honors Native sovereignty and self-determination.
Humans shown in their relationships with their pet animals, including a man trying to teach his crow the principles of language and children snail racing.

Learning about Language: An In-Class Activity

A scholar of the medical humanities shares ideas for helping students discover how language shaped past cultural attitudes—and still shapes them in the present.
Dakota pipeline protestors

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples and Cultures

More and more states are choosing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day.
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.