Beyond the microbes, mudflats, mangrove forests, and salt marshes help protect shorelines from erosion and storm surges. Since very few larger organisms (worms and clams excepted) can live in mud, mud ...

Memories of talk” in after-the-fact minutes are as suspect as any other memories. “One problem with such recollections is ...

Poland seems like a likely candidate for the short list of European countries not involved in colonialism and haunted by a past of imperial domination abroad. After all, during the peak years of ...

What colors best suit your complexion, scientifically speaking? As historian Charlotte Nicklas writes, that’s something that women in England and America started asking in the 1850s, thanks largely to ...

In 1940, author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts chartered a fishing boat named the Western Flyer to explore the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. The book they ...

How did the National Geographic Society end up becoming, in the words of historian Susan Schulten, “one of the most ubiquitous sources of information and images about the world in American culture” ...

A five-step classroom exercise reframes research as an evolving scholarly conversation rather than a search for sources.

Photos from the American Library in Paris reveal how librarians brought books to US troops during World War I.

When Americans try to beat the heat in the summertime, many find they have no municipal pool in which to swim—the result of deliberate choices made decades ago by white residents who preferred no ...

Fine dining restaurants in the U.S. have become more diverse, with the white-tablecloth French restaurant joined by cuisines from around the world and categories like “Californian” and “New American.” ...

A recent, startling report from a British government commission found that executives judge recruits more by their accents and other markers of social class than by their actual qualifications. In a ...