
History


Is the Loch Ness monster real?

What the First Amendment really says – 4 basic principles of free speech in the US

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies

How did birds survive while dinosaurs went extinct?

Don’t underestimate Cupid – he’s not the chubby cherub you associate with Valentine’s Day

Agent Orange, exposed: How U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam unleashed a slow-moving disaster

Pope Benedict XVI: A man at odds with the modern world who leaves a legacy of intellectual...

Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

The Lumière brothers, the fathers of cinema

How American Christian media promoted charity abroad

How New York’s Union Square helped shape free speech in the US

Anti-Semitism: Learning the lessons of history

I’ve started acknowledging the people who lived on this land first – and you should too

How the Dalai Lama is chosen and why China wants to appoint its own

The Flores settlement: A 1985 case that sets the rules for how government can treat migrant children

Red, white but rarely blue - the science of fireworks colors, explained

During World War I, a silent film spoke volumes about freedom of speech

Frederick Douglass, July 4th, and remembering Babylon in America
