Ketchup was once medicine. Strawberries are not berries. Somewhere between the Vogue diet and the accidental invention that ...

With more and more young people trading screen time for the old-fashioned charms of reading physical books, Mariam Thabet ...

History is not just about significant time periods, inventions, famous figures, or events of mass destruction. In the midst ...

Today’s 7,600 languages might seem like a lot, but they're just a fraction that survived a vast, ancient extinction.

Because everybody is different, it allowed people to write the way they wanted to write. Other techniques prioritized function over form. The Palmer Method, first proposed in 1894, facilitated speed, ...

Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For ...

Cylinder seals were far more than ancient signatures. They fused art, power, and belief into objects that revealed exactly ...

A clay tablet, hidden away in museum archives for decades, has revealed a remarkable story of daily life in ancient ...

She could probably convince me to sign up for a war, so getting me to join the school’s Daily Directed Reading (DDR) ...

In Wesleyan Library’s Unique Collections, material signatures of history abound. They offer students and researchers alike ...

Explore the history of these allegedly 'powerful' ancient spells, from Egyptian love papyri to Greek curse tablets. The post ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.