These six video webinars explore the life cycle of modern outbreaks — from infection to immunity — and put COVID-19 into historical context. Ashley Peery & Erin Malsbury The global spread of COVID-19 ...

Although Bernard Bailyn is one of the most distinguished historians in the Western world, he is not as well known as he should be. He rarely appears in the popular media, and he has never published a ...

When Jay Leno hosted “The Tonight Show,” he sometimes would interview young people on the street, asking them questions drawn from general cultural knowledge. Often, the kids he queried had no idea ...

On this day three years ago a total of 2,973 people died in America at the hands of 19 Islamic terrorists in the most devastating domestic attack the US had ever experienced (the War of 1812 only ...

Looking at social and historical context means looking carefully at what was going on in society and history at the time a text was written. This can help you to understand a book and its characters ...