Arts, Ideas, and Travel
Sarah Kollat, Penn State Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses – and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn…
Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University; Kimberly DaCosta, New York University, and Miriam Nyhan Grey, Mary Immaculate College When Barack Obama was elected president, the people of Moneygall in Ireland celebrated. Birthplace…
Nina Silber, Boston University Few Americans today know about the events that occurred 75 years ago in the small Hudson Valley community of Peekskill, New York. That’s where a riot…
David Routt, University of Richmond Students in my medieval history courses often wonder whether historical reality can be gleaned from medieval cinematic fantasy. I tell them that fantasy does not…
Edith Gwendolyn Nally, University of Missouri-Kansas City Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it…
Adrian Hopgood, University of Portsmouth With the current buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), it would be easy to assume that it is a recent innovation. In fact, AI has been…
Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one.…
Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University Quantum computing is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get. Quantum phenomena – the behavior of matter and energy…
Derek M. Griffith, Georgetown University and Elizabeth C. Stewart, Vanderbilt University If you had to choose, which would you rather have: a healthy father or a good father? Studies suggest…
Leslie Hahner, Baylor University and Scott J. Varda, Baylor University Homes owned by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito have flown flags linked to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and the…