Tag: Colonial America
As states weigh human lives versus the economy, history suggests the...
Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Policymakers are beginning to decide how to reopen the American...
Archaeologists have a lot of dates wrong for North American indigenous...
Sturt Manning, Cornell University
Columbus famously reached the Americas in 1492. Other Europeans had made the journey before, but the century from then until 1609...
Most witches are women, because witch hunts were all about persecuting...
Bridget Marshall, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“Witch hunt” – it’s a refrain used to deride everything from impeachment inquiries and sexual assault investigations to allegations...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
