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“Buffalo Bill” Cody was among history’s most intriguing showmen, fascinating a nation with a show that helped weave the modern myth of the Wild West.

Women leaders of the Civil Rights movement worked under the triple constraints of gender, race, and class. Their contribution hasn't gotten its due.

As a society becomes increasingly unstable, linguistic innovation happens more rapidly.

The murder of Dr. George Parkman on the campus of Harvard College was one of the most famous crimes in nineteenth century America.

The philosopher inspired a whole generation of American queer theorists.

George Saunders' trademark dark humor is especially on display in this "deleted scene" from the novella Pastoralia, available for free here.

In a time filled with “alternative truths,” historian Marsha Weisiger argues for more sophisticated approaches to telling the history of the American West.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered some 70 years ago after 2000 years in the desert, have had a controversial and conflicted life.

In 1940s America, two folklorists undertook the task of collecting and studying the "modern" ghost stories of their time.