In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of ...

To understand why so many in Scotland support independence today, one must understand the nation’s history. In this book, a distinguished Scottish historian offers a vivid, if perhaps overly detailed, ...

"In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug's complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting ...

A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City and the ...