A Complicated Man: John Baylor’s Letters to His Family
How could John Baylor have done such terrible thing and simultaneously be so effusively affectionate in his letters home?
The Early American Origins of Political Terms
What does stump speech and pork barrel mean? A short lexicon of American political terms.
Remembering and Representing Alan Turing
A 1955 obituary of Turing from the Royal Society is fascinating for what it leaves out of the first draft of history.
Interview with MacArthur Fellow Sarah Deer: Native Women and the Law
MacArthur Fellow Sarah Deer discusses her legal work in preventing sexual violence among the Native American population.
Reading the Landscape
For the past two months, I have been on a researching road trip through the West and Southwest—Colorado, ...
What If the World Were Flat and Columbus Had Fallen Off the Edge of the Earth?
What if Columbus had never made it to America?
Visualizing History
Nineteenth-century visual images, then, had power to move people to action, to convert ideas into policy.
