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“A Little Like Murder:” Telescopic Rifle Sights Alter the Course of the…

Color painting of a rural village scene with a white church topped by a green dome, several large white buildings, and many people running across a grassy field. A herd of horses gallops through the foreground while children and adults scatter, suggesting a sudden commotion or chase in a 19th-century setting.

Noyes Complaints: A White Mob (and 90 Yoke of Oxen) Drag a Racially Integrated…

“A wholesome lesson to the other Sioux”: The Massacre at Wounded Knee

Engraving of the president's house in Philadelphia in the 18th century

“They were not terrified enough”: The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia,…

Trilbymania: How a Victorian Novel Became a Viral Sensation in 19th-Century…

Mauricia de Tiers and Her Sensational Dip of Death: The Fearless Young…

'Ten Thousand Jews Coming': Jewish Immigration to America, 1881-1922

Mother Shipton. [oil on panel, c. 1830] Gift from Mary Allott, 1997. The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate.

'The Messenger Should Not Be Hanged': The Enduring Mystery of Mother…

Readex Text Explorer: A Brief Video Demonstration

New 1-Minute Video about ‘Native American Indians, 1645-1819’

A black-and-white photograph from 1917 depicting a group of women suffragists picketing outside the White House in Washington, D.C. The women are holding banners advocating for women's right to vote. The image captures the determination and peaceful protest of the suffrage movement during that era.

Women’s Suffrage in the U.S.: The Long Fight for Passage of the 19th Amendment

“Not Over By Any Means”: Quack Influenza Cures from Year Two of the 1918…

“The Terror of the Lord”: Early American Clerics Interpret God’s Will

"Wear a Mask or Go To Jail." California (circa 1919)

The Anti-Mask League of San Francisco: Protesting a Mask-Wearing Ordinance…

“Toward That Crooked Path”: Early Motion Pictures Said to Induce Criminal…

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White Plague, Black Death: Public Health as a Weapon in South Africa and the…

“I tell what I have seen”: Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Early America

The Mound Builders: America’s Indigenous Engineers

Black and white image of the earths movement around the sun from Blair's Grammar of Philosophy. The image caption is Variations of Day & Night & the Seasons.

Seed Sown on Good Soil: Astronomy, Botany, and Medicine in Early American Books

Browned paper with a block print of a Native American in the center holding a bow and arrow and carrying an animal, with typed commentary above and below the image.

“Is it proper to call every Indian a savage?”: Early Printed Accounts of the…

Vintage infographic titled “The United Nations” showing the organization’s structure as a circular chart. At the center is the General Assembly, connected to bodies like the Security Council, International Court of Justice, Economic and Social Council, Secretariat, and Trusteeship Council, with outer sections for commissions and specialized agencies such as UNESCO and FAO. Yellowed, mid-20th-century design style.

Politics and Prophylaxis: The World Health Organization, the Politics of…

Powerful New Tools for Digital Humanists: Introducing Readex Text Explorer (RTE…

‘Mild as the Harmless Lamb’: Instructions on Conduct for Females

“Silkeries of the Skies”: The Solar Superstorm of 1859