Enjoy My Flames: On heavy metal’s fascination with Roman emperors

Studying the Script: Finding Chinese inscriptions on turtle shells

Following the oud through the history of Armenian music

The Custom of the Country: On the relationships formed by the fur trade

What driveling times are these! Georgian grumblings on an age of decline

Insuring against the cost of insurance itself in Revolutionary-era America

Did Girolamo Mercuriale misdiagnose a plague in sixteenth-century Venice?

Learning Sixteenth-Century Business Jargon

A Utopia of Useful Things

Saturday Night’s All Right: The invention of payday