Tag: history
Caitlin Clark’s historic scoring record shines a spotlight on the history...
Diane Williams, McDaniel College
When University of Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark drained a 3-pointer against the University...
What’s sociology? A sociologist explains why Florida’s college students should get...
Joya Misra, UMass Amherst
In January 2024, Florida officially voted to reduce the number of students enrolled in sociology...
This course examines how conflicts arise over borders
Nita Prasad, Quinnipiac University
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting...
‘Time warp’ takes students to Native American past to search for...
Eric M. Anderman, The Ohio State University and Tzu-Jung Lin, The Ohio State University
The eyes of the fifth...
What the extreme fire seasons of 1910 and 2020 – and...
Kyra Clark-Wolf, University of Colorado Boulder and Philip Higuera, University of Montana
Strong winds blew across mountain slopes after...
How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh...
Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Michigan State University, and Sean Liddick, Michigan State University
Each October, the...
X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are...
Peter Schumer, Middlebury
Even though x is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout...
Dismantling the myth that ancient slavery ‘wasn’t that bad’
Chance Bonar, Tufts University
As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I...