Matthew Wills

A 1954 coup, backed by the CIA and private citizen William Pawley, installed an authoritarian regime and touched off four decades of civil war in Guatemala.

Most of the nuclear near-misses during the Cold War were kept under wraps, and they still make for unnerving reading in the twenty-first century.

The ivory tower has always been metaphoric, but as Steven Shapin shows, its symbolic value has shifted over the centuries.

Historian Glenn D. Tieffert shows how state interests in the People's Republic of China can be protected by editing online databases and collections.

Born a free Black man, William Still kept the books and managed the money for the Philadelphia branch of the Underground Railroad.

Why the ancient Egyptians did—or did not—recommended strapping a clay crocodile to an aching head.

The stigmatization of immigrants through the language of disease and contagion is as American as apple pie.

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Attention must be paid to Arthur Miller as a comedian , argues the drama scholar Susan C.

An anthropologist takes on pro-wrestling at the intersection of gig-economy precariousness and post-truth politics.

Let's take a closer look at the Russian aristocrat turned anarchist who (literally) wrote the book on mutual aid.