Kate Tibbets’ Wiki-History interface presents every edit to a Wikipedia page along a chronological slider. Kate Tibbets’ Wiki-History interface presents every edit to a Wikipedia page along a ...

Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...

When Ksenia Coffman started editing Wikipedia, she was like a tourist in Buenos Aires in the 1950s. She came to learn the tango, admire the architecture, sip maté. She didn’t know there was a Nazi ...

John Overholt, a Harvard librarian and curator of early modern books, just launched a new blog called First Drafts of History that spotlights the very first drafts of Wikipedia articles. It’s a blog ...

Have you ever wandered around Santa Barbara and marveled at all the historic plaques on buildings? Or been surprised when you learn that the origins of Earth Day or the Egg McMuffin are rooted right ...