So-called heritage learners are forcing educators to rethink and reframe their approaches to teaching second languages in the classroom.

IceCube scientists have detected high-energy tau neutrinos from deep space, suggesting that neutrino transformations occur not only in lab experiments but also over cosmic distances.

Ash from burnt wood, weeds, bracken, and kelp helped fuel the Industrial Revolution.

In the early twentieth century, American Zionists were inspired by what they saw as parallels with the political objectives of Irish nationalists.

The medical profession saw nothing wrong with offering a cocaine-laced cola to white, middle-class consumers. Selling it to Black Americans was another matter.

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan I argued the US Constitution was color-blind. He also believed it stood in defense of white supremacy.

In the early 1900s, a fictional “gentleman burglar” named Raffles fascinated British readers, reflecting popular ideas about crime, class, and justice.

Alexandre Lenoir’s Musée des monuments français, founded to protect French artifacts from the revolutionary mobs, was one of the first popular museums of Europe.

In the 1960s, young disabled people found each other at camps and colleges, creating ever-expanding networks for challenging discrimination.

The short story collection Mrs. Spring Fragrance should be read in the context of nineteenth-century sentimentalism, which was shaped by Christian morality.