Middle-aged performers are taking on roles once reserved for men, challenging expectations about age and gender in Bali.

Frances Benjamin Johnston looked beyond grand estates to document the ordinary buildings that defined American life.

In the early twentieth century, immigrant anarchists organized across U.S. cities and stood at the center of major labor ...

Eight centuries after the legends took shape, Arthur's world continues to inspire filmmakers, musicians, advertisers, and ...

Research on police training finds that realistic simulations may reinforce expectations of violence instead of preventing it.

Beyond the microbes, mudflats, mangrove forests, and salt marshes help protect shorelines from erosion and storm surges. Since very few larger organisms (worms and clams excepted) can live in mud, mud ...

Mayflower colonist John Goodman was out for a walk around Plymouth Colony with a spaniel, one of the two dogs that had also ...

In 1950, the U.S. State Department fired 91 employees because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual. In the next two years, nearly 200 more state employees were dismissed for the same ...

Feeling worried about how to live your life? Creeping sense of dread got you down? Scholars often identify anxiety as a distinctly modern issue, associated with existentialist thinkers, particularly ...

In 1940, author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts chartered a fishing boat named the Western Flyer to explore the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. The book they ...

Early robots in the US evolved from symbols of revolt into racialized figures tied to labor and the legacy of slavery. In the American context, where the language of master and slave was rooted in ...