Originals

This year's Nobel Prize in physics is a blast from the past of Cold War-era research investment. Is that era gone for good?

Claude Lévi-Strauss and the burden of our personal archives.

The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.

Why I decided to devote my professional life to something I wasn't very interested in.

What professional historians do – and don't – have to offer communities struggling with the Confederate monuments in their midst.