Inspire kids to learn about the contributions of Black people not just during Black History Month, but all year long.

Look, none of what you're about to hear will save your life, land you a job, or make you any smarter in the ways that matter. But you're going to remember it anyway. One fact involves the CIA, ...

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Goethe’s words, written two centuries ago, capture Nigeria’s present problem with uncomfortable accuracy. The country knows ...

New evidence shows that the health impacts of the Industrial Revolution varied more widely than previously believed, challenging the longstanding narrative that urban areas were uniformly polluted ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...

Economics Professor Siobhan O’Keefe says that technology has been upending the workforce—more or less constantly—since the dawn of the industrial era. We talked to O’Keefe for some additional context ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

In the late 19th century, Stuttgart was booming. The southern German city was famously the cradle of an emerging automobile sector and had already established itself as an industrial powerhouse and ...

Most speculation about artificial intelligence has focused on its potential to kill jobs and on the policies that government might implement to control AI and cushion workers against temporary or ...

I review four growth stocks—Argan, Inc., Power Solutions International, Inc., Powell Industries, Inc., and Sterling Infrastructure, Inc.—benefiting from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. STRL and PSIX ...

When I look at the rise of artificial intelligence today, I am reminded of history’s defining moments, the inventions and breakthroughs that didn’t just improve industries but redefined civilization.