History
When Science Was the Best Show in America
The first US museum was devoted to truth and reason. Then the circus came to town.
Interrogating the Art and Science of Whaling Journals
Images are not always neutral, even within the framework of science.
The Greatest Journey of All Time
How the first Americans made their way from Siberia to Patagonia.
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?
What if Another Crisis Strikes During This Pandemic?
A warning from history about simultaneous disasters.
We Are All Ancient Mapmakers
Why we still see the world like the mathematician and poet who first mapped it.
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist
Where might the US be if it heeded her discovery of global warming’s source?
How American Tycoons Created the Dinosaur
The story of dinosaurs is also the story of capitalism.