Stephen Berry begins his new book Count the Dead: Coroners, Quants, and the Birth of Death as WeKnow Itwith these two paragraphs: This is a book about death and data or, more specifically, about th

When Confederate cannons fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, the United States Army was comprised of only 16,000 soldiers. Its medical staff was numbered just 113 doctors. And heres another fun fact:

On March 15, 1938, Adolf Hitler addressed 250,000 Austrians in Vienna, announcing the end of the Austrian state. Close by on that same day, Nazis entered the apartment of Dr. Sigmund Freud and his fam

New college students usually get lots of advice. Go to office hours. Ask good questions. Declare a major as soon as you can. Take some time to figure out who you are. Get some research exper

The pandemic of 1346the Black Deathin some areas of Europe killed as much as 50% of the population. But this first outbreak, while the worst, was not the last. For three centuries it persisted, wit

In December 24, 1979, Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. They entered a country already engaged in a civil war. Figuratively, Afghans had been engaged in a war for nearly 100 years over their identity

The Dictator and His Daughter (c. 1934) - On the morning of November 10, 1918, the overnight train from Berlin arrived in Warsaw station. One of its passengers was Josef Pilsudski. For twenty-six year

When the Bavarian naturalist Moritz Wagner travelled in the kingdom of Georgia, in 1819, he encountered there thousands of Germans, some of them living in what he described as a ganz deutscher Bauart

My guest today is Martin Clagget, author of A Spark of Revolution:William Small, ThomasJefferson, and James Watt; The Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution

Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson of Salem County, New Jersey - Joseph T. Buckingham, editor of the Boston Courier in the 1830s, had a way with invective: - The mere fungus of an offensive plant which one