Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Colonial narratives often boast triumphant victory and catastrophic defeat, but Mexican biombo paintings suggest a surprising alternative.

Trump ally Carl Higbie recently cited Japanese internment camps during World War II as a “precedent” for a proposed registry of Muslims in the U.S.

Marie Curie was the first major woman scientist to get full credit for her scientific contributions.

Advertisers have been trying to develop a precise science of advertising for more than a century.

How can anything besides bones remain from so many millions of years ago?

A lot about the 2016 presidential election has been unprecedented, but this isn’t the first time we’ve seen calls for recounts in some states.

Presidents have appointed National Security Advisors since 1953. Since the 1960s, they've become increasingly powerful within the Executive Branch.

With the rise of the crowd-sourced syllabus, such as the #FergusonSyllabus or #TrumpSyllabus, the digital age has expanded the scope of online learning.

Rosa Parks shook the world of Jim Crow by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on her way home from work.