The field of Cold War social science and intellectual history examines how political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union shaped the production, circulation and application of social ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

The study of the history and philosophy of science examines how scientific knowledge is generated, justified and transformed over time. Historian-philosophers trace the evolution of concepts, methods ...

In the summer of 1945, four days after Japan’s official surrender and a few weeks into the Atomic Age, President Harry Truman began floating the idea of an agency guided by “the free intelligence of ...