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“Raise your hand if you’ve heard of Thomas Jefferson,” I said to a group of about 70 middle schoolers in Memphis. Hands shot up across the…

As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried.She was standing at the site of the massacre…

Melania TrumpTailoring, tightly belted trenchcoats and sharply cut tuxedos are often her style of choice. Occasionally military-inspired, always highly polished and glamourous, Melania Trump’s style has been the subject of…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re mainly going to focus on one major story from last week:…

Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many…

What’s the first thing you notice when you step into a museum? Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or…

The last outbreak of cholera in Britain was in 1866; in the United States there has not been an outbreak since 1911.And yet today people are…

“The East End of London is the far right’s prime target – the essence of everything they don’t like. They feel if they can march through…

“They weren’t buddies,” author El-Hai tells the BBC. “But they formed a connection, and Kelley recognised that they shared certain personality traits.” As well as acknowledging…

On 26 October, podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather on the steps of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History for a teach-in in…