In three books and a series of essays, Hartman has explored the interior lives of enslaved people and their descendants, employing a method that she says “troubles the line between history and ...

Americans are fighting about history. This past week, thousands of students from across the country came together to ...

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Instead of learning to identify cats from pictures labelled “cat,” for example, the machine learns ... learning together the way brains do. The history of artificial intelligence, going ...

Brands, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote by email. About 160 years after the end of the American Civil War, the true origins of Memorial Day remain unclear ...

Editor's Note (06/24): When E. Bryant Crutchfield passed away at the age of 85 in 2022, he left behind a legacy—and more than a little controversy. After mainstream media outlets cited this ...