Richard Potter, the first American-born ventriloquist and stage magician, learned his trade after being kidnapped and abandoned as a child in Great Britain.

As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery...consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

In medieval Ireland, ships that sailed across the sky were both marvelous and mundane.

Barbie is having a(nother) moment. Researchers have been studying the famous doll for years.

Using humor to mask and normalize hatred and bigotry has a long, ugly history.

How do we meet the challenge of increasingly devastating wildfires?

Well-researched stories from Knowable Magazine, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

For the Americans, narratives about the savagery of the British became an important part of nation-building and a moral justification for armed rebellion.

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The 2010 Turner v. Clayton judgment was a milestone on the path toward reimagining education as a community’s responsibility.