How do we recognize and celebrate diversity and cultural belonging in the classroom?

Archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived.

Efka—the German rolling paper company—was a Nazi regime favorite. After World War II, it was refashioned as a darling of the pot-infused counterculture.

Even when it was considered socially unacceptable, American women were knocking down pins on the local lanes.

Well-researched stories from Nautilus, The Conversation, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Christine used her pen to make a living at the French court, but even more pointedly, she used it to argue the value of educated women.

Poems that reflect and reinterpret the pastoral tradition, by Louise Glück, Alex Dimitrov, Rebecca Lehmann, Sam Sax, Natasha Trethewey, and more.

An interview with writer and poet Rebecca Lehmann, who finds splendid things can follow when she stretches the rules of craft.

There were compensations for the hardscrabble life of the Gold Rush—like monkeys and parrots brought to California for companionship and entertainment.

Between 1931 and 1947, Henry Ford financed an experimental farm in Essex to see if industrial American farming methods could be applied to British fields.