HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology hosted a day of learning for students in its Spark program on Tuesday.

The “Dark Ages” is a misnomer. The period between Antiquity and the Renaissance, known as the Middle Ages, saw amazing advances in art, science, and philosophy. Around 1300, scholars in Europe ...

The Middle Ages, like all historical epochs – like our own – was a time of light and shadow. A time, in short, which, if we approach it without prejudice, still has many lessons to offer us.

The Middle Ages are remembered as a time of conflict — there were wars between England and Scotland, between Muslims and Christians in Spain, and the Crusades in the Holy Land.

Indigenous and critical race approaches to narratives of the Middle Ages help reveal more accurate histories, and combat the misuses of ‘the medieval’ for hate.