History books are filled with accounts of legendary beauties and handsome rulers who were considered absolutely irresistible in their time. But would they still be considered attractive today? That’s ...

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Veteran multimedia producer and professor Lynn Rogoff has long experimented with ways to bring history alive for young people. So as she saw the rise of AI tools, she was quick to try them. In her ...

Early last year, historian Claire Aubin shared what she thought was just a joke on Twitter. “I wish there was a podcast called ‘This Guy Sucks,’” Aubin tweeted, “where my historian friends and I could ...

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When we study the monumental legacies of world leaders, revolutionary scientists, and iconic artists, we naturally rely on the collective anecdotes passed down through textbooks and pop culture. We ...