Colonial exploitation made the indigenous Aztec people disproportionately vulnerable to epidemics. Indigenous accounts show their perspective.

Rebecca Harding Davis had no firsthand experience of iron mills. Neither does her nameless narrator.

The celebrated linguist and scholar on his new book on global climate change, the mediated reality of Fox News, and the economics of the Green New Deal.

If the pandemic has you wishing for yesteryear, watching 12 Monkeys—and the time travel art film that inspired it—is just the thing.

Since its invention in 1743, roller skating has been tied to Black social movements.

Experts are confident that there will be a vaccine next year.

There’s compelling evidence for stronger student work and more meaningful instruction when grades in K-12 education are eliminated or made unrecognizable.

"On this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences."

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Scholars of early modern England have shown how plague and protest are often correlated. The Black Death of 1348 laid the groundwork for the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, for example.