A Johnson County judge recently ordered the State Historical Society of Iowa to reopen its Iowa City branch after a yearlong legal battle.

From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property.

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways

Billy Evans, father of Holmes’s children, says company can make diagnoses from users’ blood, urine and saliva

IN-PERSON REGISTRATION IS SOLD OUT. ZOOM REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN. Historic Deerfield, with support from the Massachusetts Historical Society, is hosting a one-day conference: “Revisiting King Phili...

Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.

Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.

Under a state law passed in 2025, 90 names are up for replacement. Only two have been officially changed so far.

AI systems are increasingly capable of contributing to mathematical research. In research practice, frontier-model reasoning is a limited resource, and expert mathematical review is even more sharply ...

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The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system st...

It is never fun to watch friends argue. Generative AI has created multiple fractures across our universities and the community of historians. The stakes are high and we are all dealing with the rep…

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Earth will breach a long-standing target before the end of the decade, report says.

Life in a neighborhood that’s become a punch line.

‘None of us is in the exact same situation.’

Nevada-based Kingsbarn Realty Capital seeks to acquire land to construct private road to development outside park

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Cherokee Nation banned hyperscale data centers on tribal and trust lands following a task force review that raised concerns over energy, water, infrastructure and cultural resources.

Reform UK leader does not appear for the result, despite beating nearest challenger, Count Binface, in byelection he caused amid deepening scandal over £5m gift

Hayden L. Nelson is a Gale Scholar and research historian at the Minnesota Historical Society. He earned his PhD in history in 2025 from the University of Kansas, specializing in environmental and Ind...