If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science," then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern ...

Students will design an experiment in order to discover the origin of an important family artifact. Students will analyze the experiment and determine if that experiment is the best available method ...

For the first time, declassified documents confirm the CIA carried out tests on North Korean POWs and planned for much more ...

The United States once sold itself as a radical bet on human equality, self-government, and the rule of law, a political experiment that promised ordinary people control over their own fate. Two and a ...