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."

Here's what the courts have ruled.

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.

A Black Bohemia flourished in New York before the Harlem Renaissance and with it a new type of self-determined, contradictory Black celebrity.

Consider this: people once thought too much reading was bad for kids.

In her new book, Wandering in Strange Lands, Morgan Jerkins takes a deeply personal look at the effects of the Great Migration.

Some writers see contagion as a metaphor for community—proof that we exist within an interdependent network and not as autonomous disconnected islands.

The denigration of kitsch betrays a latent anti-Catholicism, one born from centuries of class and ethnic divisions.