James Williford

This diminutive steamer, christened the SL Puffin, began life in 1906 as a 5-horsepower gasoline-powered launch.

Meet the perpetrator of a long-running and remarkably elaborate pseudoscientific scam.

Preserving nineteenth-century Indian miniatures

Preserving masks used by the Nahua Indians of central Mexico

Preserving the history the U.S. Navy's Special Forces 

The Slave Trade by the Numbers

Sometime in the late 1960s or early seventies, a neighbor told Guan Moye about a writer he knew whose work was so popular that he could afford to eat jiaozi—“those tasty little pork dumplings

William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolitionists

New collaborations between neuroscientists and humanists look to reunite the "two cultures" of the academy.

In a digital archive of Hamlet quartos, classic Shakespearean words come and go.