Cathryn Carson is professor of history of science, past director of the Office for History of Science and Technology and chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

The university has become, in recent years, a testing ground for many of the debates playing out in society at large. The organized labor of graduate student unions and the defunding of the humanities ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. My office sits in the extension between Guyot ...