PBS

Using Primary Sources: The Rogue's Gallery

In this lesson, students view an excerpt from the Rogue Book that introduces a 1909 book featuring hundreds of clippings for lost and wanted men from the early 20th century. They analyze pages from ...
Nature

Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation

Historical data sources are instrumental in biodiversity research because they provide historical baselines for species and ecosystems, and they reveal information about human–nature relationships and ...
PBS

Using Primary Sources: Wide Open Town

In this lesson, students learn about the Temperance Movement and New York in the 1890s by watching an excerpt from the Bootlegger’s Notebook, investigation and examining period images, including ...
Forbes

Art Historians Join Ecologists To Study Landscapes Of The Past

A new collaboration between between ecologists and art historians explored whether it’s possible to get accurate information about landscape ecology from nineteenth century paintings. They studied the ...
The New York Times

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? Credit...Photo illustration by enigmatriz ...