Katrina Gulliver

Marbled paper was a way to make banknotes and checks unique—a critical characteristic for a nascent American Republic.

This nineteenth-century industrial product became a military staple and a critical part of local food culture around the world.

Pneumatic tubes offered a leap forward in business and communications, in the office and across the city.

The beauty parlor became a place of sociability for women in the twentieth century, partly aided by modern technology of hair drying.

Milk banks, a successor concept to wet nursing, are a little discussed part of the contemporary landscape of infant care.

Should museums only exhibit work of their own culture, or should they bring the world to visitors?

A new book considers the possible alternative outcomes of the battles in America's war for independence.

Once a key element in Native economies of the region, clams and oysters became a reliable source of free protein for working-class and poor urban dwellers.

Before Salem, this small town succumbed to the witch-hunting fever.

Leila Philip's book is thrilling, both on scientific and historical levels.

The Hat Riots of 1922 show how arbitrary, elite rules can spur civil unrest.