The U.K. general election of 1918 was a ‘cynical muddle’ held as influenza killed thousands across a country emerging from World War I

The sight of Black soldiers distributing print to other Black people in a state that criminalized the teaching of reading to the enslaved summoned up a future shaped by the possibility of increased self-determination

Medieval manuscripts reveal the reading communities of the early Middle Ages

Spinning yarn is work that has become invisible in modern life. But at the dawn of the American Revolution, it was revolutionary

The first guide to drinking is a Latin poem published in 1536

A momentous change in the status of women began in the 1950s