(The Conversation) – On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a plantation in ...

The world of early medieval Europe is sometimes hard to grasp for 21st-century Americans. The fog of the “dark ages” still lingers, casting the period as a fundamentally unknowable time, a period of ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

New York Times science columnist Zimmer (Life’s Edge) delivers an invigorating chronicle of how humanity’s understanding of airborne microbes has evolved from the 19th century through the Covid ...

Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe by Carl Zimmer. Dutton, 2025 ($32) The air around us is more alive than we might care to think. What seems like an in-­between void is really a far ...

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...