In May 1752 the French minister of the navy, Antoine de Rouillé, wrote to the governor of Saint-Domingue about the new problem of slaves in France. Slaves were “multiplying every day, more and more, ...

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III. But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations. The recent resettlement of a few dozen Afrikaner ...

Literary criticism and the practice of law would seem to have little in common. One embraces its subjective stance, while the other appeals to a fixed code of conduct. Yet there are signs of overlap ...

At one time, more than 4 billion American chestnut trees spread from southern Canada all the way to Mississippi and Alabama. While it was rarely the dominant tree in the forests, this giant of the ...

In the late 1870s, the 70-year-old newspaper editor Henry Boernstein sat down to write about German immigrants’ efforts to shape the United States into a less brutal, more enlightened republic in the ...

In 1783, weeks after a peace treaty ends the Revolutionary War, Britain invades the independent United States. The British navy blockades the Eastern seaboard, cutting off American trade routes, and ...

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Those intrigued by the possibilities of AI in classrooms often rope history into their argument. Advocates for AI’s use in educational settings suggest that it should be used, like the calculator, to ...

We know how to euthanize beloved pets — veterinarians do it every day. And we know how physician-assisted suicide works — it is legal in several states. If drugs can be used to humanely end life in ...

One of the challenging debates, for economists and policymakers as much as historians, is about how to define efficiency. One of its most standard applications to policy and law is cost-benefit ...

A young man named Edgar Llewellyn Simmons sailed out of Carlisle Bay, Barbados, on a Royal Mail boat in January 1908 to work on the Panama Canal. After a two-week journey, he reached Colón and ...