This primer on Black Midwestern Studies examines the factors shaping communities of color in America’s “flyover country,” long mistaken as a place of normative whiteness.

An instructor shares her approach for teaching students how to evaluate historical materials and claims of veracity made by their originators.

This month’s puzzle features a nod to the Second City.

In the sixteenth century, Kongo’s government trained young nobles to provide interpretation and cultural mediation between Europeans and Kongolese.

The city of Pontianak is notable for sharing its name with a vengeful folkloric revenant known by various monikers across the Malay Archipelago.

How did Copenhagen become a “city of cyclists,” where a third of all journeys are by bicycle?

Given its strong gendered associations, it may be surprising that height hasn’t been well studied by historians.

Over decades, books that rouse children’s interest in the natural world have morphed in style and approach—an evolution reflective of tectonic societal change.

In June 2016, President Obama proclaimed the first LGBTQ+ national monument in the United States at the site of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City.

Educators and parents in Ethiopia agree that students should learn English in school. But when should instruction in that second (third, fourth) language begin?