history

The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act

A brief history of toilets

Can you trust your memory?

Ugly History: The US syphilis experiment

A day in the life of the Oracle of Delphi

The epic of Gilgamesh, the king who tried to conquer death

The woman who stared at the sun

Run, sail or hide? How to survive the destruction of Pompeii

What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion

How one design flaw almost toppled a skyscraper

Who decides what's in the dictionary?

Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal

This tool will help improve your critical thinking

A brief history of the devil

Why every world map is wrong

Ugly History: The Spanish Inquisition

Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered?

Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history

The unexpected math of origami

The artist who won a Nobel Prize... in medicine

A brief history of divorce

The rise of the Ottoman Empire

"The Hill We Climb"

Who decides how long a second is?

A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul

Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"?

The strange history of the world's most stolen painting

The legacy of matriarchs in the Yukon First Nations

To future generations of women, you are the roots of change

The dark history of bananas

How technology changes our sense of right and wrong

Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt?

The hidden treasures of Timbuktu

Language around gender and identity evolves (and always has)

The rise and fall of history's first empire

The problem with the U.S. bail system