"Colossus: The Forbin Project" At the height of the Cold War, the United States develops an enormous computer system in a top secret underground facility. The machine's single purpose is […]

East Germany, 1989: While a young man goes to the Oct. 3 40th anniversary ceremonies to protest, his mother suffers a heart attack and falls into coma as she watches […]

Mark Hendrickson’s research focuses on labor, public policy, capitalism and political economy in early twentieth century U.S. History. He has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, Aspen Institute, […]

No archaeological discoveries have provided more striking examples that demonstrate the excellence of early Chinese pictorial art than those at Mawangdui, dated to the second century B.C.E. However, scholars have […]

That amphetamine was used on all sides in the Second World War is widely acknowledged but little discussed by historians. Drawing on a range of primary sources Professor Rasmussen describes […]

In 1911 Monarch, “the last of the California grizzlies,” died in San Francisco after 22 years of captivity in Golden Gate Park. Within a year, conservationists launched the first campaign […]

The idea that America and other industrialized societies faced limits to their power and future economic growth helped define the 1970s. While scientists and free-market economists criticized this perspective, these […]

Classes begin today. Visit the link below for the academic calendar of your choice. History students who have a section meeting time before the lecture meets should attend their section […]

Susan Ferber, the executive editor of Oxford University Press, will talk on the nuts and bolts of the publishing process, with plenty of time for questions. Light refreshments will be […]

As perhaps no other field of inquiry, the history of emotion, especially romantic love, seems dominated, almost premised upon, a search for attributes experiencing some sort of prolonged "rise" (and […]