The John Portman-designed Renaissance Center was built two generations after Detroit’s architectural heyday and a generation ...

The culture war in education that began in response to the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has had a chilling effect on how race is discussed in classrooms. The Center for ...

When it comes to learning about Black history, students today are tuning in to TikTok for lessons not learned in the classroom. Well-versed on the basic facts about prominent figures such as Martin ...

When it comes to perfume, telling a story is a surefire way to connect to a scent. Nobody does this better than the House of Krigler, a perfume dynasty with five generations going strong. Inside each ...

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...

With inflation a meaningful economic factor after a decades-long hiatus in many countries, households need no tutorial on its impact on their day-to-day spending, as budgets are stretched thin by ...

S+B: Historians have, well, historically been content to leave current events to journalists. But you spend a lot of time writing, teaching, and thinking about what is happening now. How do you ...

The Munich Agreement is one of the most criticized diplomatic agreements in history. In 1938, Adolf Hitler turned his sights on absorbing the Sudetenland, the part of Czechoslovakia dominated by ...

I often start a new class by asking why we should study history. I don’t allow the cliché “History repeats itself,” without specific examples. The history of epidemics provides some: racist ...

On the morning of March 17, Liz Kleinrock contemplated calling out of work. The shootings at three Atlanta-area spas had happened the night before, leaving eight dead including six women of Asian ...

Nvidia's Jensen Huang holding the Grace hopper superchip used for generative AI at supermicro keynote presentation during the COMPUTEX 2023. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ...