Most funding for state and local governments comes from a few, well established revenue sources: property taxes, sales taxes, and personal and corporate income taxes. While all of these taxes have ...

Historians have trust issues—and they should. When scholars evaluate texts, art, material objects, and oral histories from the past, they’re diving into deeply personal and inherently human sources.

“The history of the footnote may well seem an apocalyptically trivial topic,” writes historian Anthony Grafton. “Footnotes seem to rank among the most colorless and uninteresting features of ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? Credit...Photo illustration by enigmatriz ...