Leadership, Culture & Society

Seven McMaster graduate students are using data science approaches to provide new insights into a number of areas of research.

Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr, and John F. Kennedy are among the luminaries whose letters are featured in an online exhibit at McMaster focused on philosopher, peace advocate and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.

In households with children, the ramifications of shelter-at-home measures - which shuttered schools and child-care centres across the country while also prohibiting families from soliciting support with child care - have fallen disproportionately to women.

We can celebrate Dame Vera while rejecting racist myths about Second World War Britain and those who seek to use Lynn to advance a xenophobic nostalgia.

Some celebs are using their platforms successfully in the pandemic ... others, not so much. (Two words: "Imagine" video.)

Friends - all with a McMaster connection - collaborate on a new book highlighting Canada's queer archives.

The underwater caves of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula have yielded the first clear evidence suggesting early humans ventured deep underground into a labyrinth of treacherous tunnels to prospect and mine red ochre.

During this pandemic, historians have been consulted like the Oracle of Delphi. Is COVID-19 like the Black Death? The 1918 flu? What lessons of history can be applied to today? Can history show us what we want to know?

The stubborn tendency of non-Indigenous Canadians to turn away from "Indigenous issues" and seek a return to "normalcy" remains an ongoing barrier to change.

Unlike other brown characters who have appeared on television before her, such as The Simpson's Apu, Devi is more than a sidekick or a figure of fun. She drives the narrative, and in ways that are alternately inspiring, cringe-worthy and relatable.

The existential threat we're facing right now might explain the proliferation of conspiracy theories, extreme political ideologies and #Reopen protests.