In the middle of a green Irish field stands a bizarre structure: not so much a building as a collection of holes, a series of gaping arches framing the sky. This is Conolly’s Folly, built in 1740 at ...

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

A Pennsylvania couple spotted one of the world’s most unusual birds in their backyard feeder. The northern cardinal looked like it was painted down the middle: one half was the brown of a female ...

Killings by police officers are increasingly salient as a political issue, but, as historian Jeffrey S. Adler found while studying Chicago Police Department records from the 1870s through the 1920s, ...

When a mob bent on insurrection stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, some onlookers labeled the event “unprecedented.” But the United States has witnessed coups d’etat before—both attempted ...

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.

The year is 1840. A sensational trial has captivated the whole of France. The accused is a dark-haired, sophisticated Parisian named Marie Lafarge. Her alleged crime? Murder by means of arsenic ...

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 ...