Baseball holds its records sacred. Most home runs, strikeouts, career wins. But what about the longest game ever? That honor goes to a 1981 AAA game, when the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings slugged it out from dusk […]
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Executive director James Grossman and director of teaching & learning Brendan Gillis have a busy schedule at the 2024 National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference in Boston. On Thursday, November 21, Grossman will deliver a lunchtime keynote about
For anyone who teaches at a business school, the blog post was bad news. For Juliana Schroeder, it was catastrophic. She saw the allegations when they first went up, on a Saturday in early summer 2023. Schroeder teaches management and
A little more than a week before the Presidential election, Donald Trump hosted a rally at Madison Square Garden that some speculated would be the death knell of his campaign. Eleven days after his victory, he returned to the Garden
The word “Seminole” is derived from the Muscogean word simanó-li, or “runaway,” reflecting a common heritage, as Upper Creeks from Alabama, Lower Creeks from Georgia, other affiliated tribes and escaped African slaves all sought sanctuary in Spanish Florida. There they mixed
Prime numbers are only divisible by themselves and one. Robert Brook via Getty Images In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers: values that are only divisible by themselves and one.
Early this year I was alerted to the opportunity to acquire this unusual lithograph from 1865. I was surprised to find that neither the Library of Congress nor the New York Public Library, which has a large collection of digitized
October 22, 2024 by Taylor Carr-Howard Our 2023 John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship winner, Taylor Carr-Howard, provides an update from the field. As the 2023 recipient of the John R. Coleman Traveling Fellowship, I traveled to Morocco, France, and Tunisia
The intricate details of the sunken Endurance, the ship lost on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s doomed 1914 Antarctic expedition, have been revealed through 3D scans and underwater photographs. The images, taken by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, provide a close-up look
As the United States stood on the brink of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the urgent need for innovative military strategies to effectively confront the impending global conflict. Observing the unfolding events in Europe, he realized that
