Matthew Wills

Families turned to habeas corpus to recover enlisted sons, forcing a constitutional showdown over military power.

The magazine's explosive growth mirrored the nation's emergence as a global empire.

It was hailed as a historic discovery—until a trail of clues revealed one of the rare-book world's most audacious scams.

Britain's textile boom depended on a resource extracted under brutal conditions far from its factories.

A fur-farming experiment unleashed a prolific rodent—and sparked one of the rare successful eradications of an invasive species.

Research suggests compact housing may normalize economic insecurity rather than address the roots of the affordability crisis.

New sightings suggest a surprising ecological comeback—and a chance to reexamine the state's environmental past.

A nineteenth-century experiment in children's play helped reshape American cities—and later fell out of favor.

This article is the second in a series examining the global rise of e-invoicing and its implications for multinational businesses.

The near-extinction of the bison sparked an industry that left almost nothing of the animals behind.