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Over a weekend in 1995, a small group gathered in Ohio to unleash the power of the internet by making it navigable.

Large language models can do a lot of things. But can they write like an 18th-century fur trader?

A front-row seat to a slow-moving catastrophe. How tech both helps and hurts our world.

Dan Sinykin’s history of corporate fiction.

On the early origins of a very American kind of writing.

Exploring Deaf history, language and education as the hearing child of a Deaf adult.

When speech offends, who decides where boundaries should be drawn?

Attribution can make visible the vast infrastructure of research and display how much hard-won knowledge, including creative endeavor, it has faciliated.

Bruce Kuklick traces the meaning of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.

Migration patterns, cultural ties, geographic regions and class differences all shape speaking patterns.

In the Mad Men era of magazine journalism, Virginia Kraft was a globe-trotting writer and a deadly shot with a rifle. Why hasn't anyone heard of her?

She was an actress. He was a shortstop. What we can learn from the press parade around this 19th-century power couple.

Right-wing radio stations are tied to an increase in conservatism among listeners.

Cecil Brown wants to digitally revive the enslaved antebellum poet George Moses Horton. Can digital technology help reconnect us to the tradition he embodied?

A new history of the ‘New York Times.’

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Almanacs from the Civil War era reveal how two sides of an embattled nation used data from the natural world to legitimize their claims to statehood.

A descendant of concentration camp survivors argues that using the right vocabulary can help clarify the stakes when confronting wartime trauma

For more than 50 years, we've been worrying about "grade inflation" at elite American universities. It's time to move on.

A 1990 case from Brown University was the first time a modern university expelled a student for a violation of a "hate speech code.”

The term is 80 years old. Everyone is still fighting over its meaning.

What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?

‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls.

What made those left-of-the-dial broadcasts so special during the 1980s, ‘90s and 2000s?

On Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”

An interrogation of The New York Times’ archive reveals a sordid record of support for American wars, right-wing dictatorships and U.S.-backed regime-change.

To most of the world, “corn” is “maize,” a word that comes from the Taíno mahizwas. Not for British colonists in North America, though.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Understanding history can help us understand what will be necessary if we’re serious about finally having a more diverse, less exclusionary publishing industry.

How concern about injuries is changing sports.