"History" can seem big and imposing. But it's always intensely personal – it's all of our individual experiences that add up to historical events. Over the next few episodes, we're exploring the ...

A good understanding of eyewitness memory is invaluable in criminal investigation. However, we frequently see eyewitness principles operating in other fields in which accurate observation is important ...

In 1979, two M.I.T. computer-science alumni and a Harvard Business School graduate launched a new piece of computer software for the Apple II machine, an early home computer. Called VisiCalc, short ...

A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories. By Jonathan Kandell Pierre Nora, a French scholar whose ideas ...