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

Because the media can frame public events, it has played a large role in shaping how people think of Indigenous peoples’ fight for sovereignty and the integrity of their land. The movie Beans, which ...

Happy holidays! It’s that special time of year to gather with cousins, nephews, and in-laws, as we wear ironic sweaters, drink mulled wine, and reinforce traditional gender roles. “You could call it ...

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 ...

If learning promotes rationality and wards off superstition, then it stands to reason that Britain’s educated classes gradually lost faith in witches, ghosts, and fairies while the masses took longer ...

Peanut butter and jelly. Milk and cookies. Andrew Jackson and … duels? That’s right—the seventh president of the United States had a predilection for old-fashioned fights of honor. Bertram Wyatt-Brown ...

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

Trees of the genus Pisonia are not your average tree. They seem like something that would be at home in Middle Earth, or maybe Harry Potter’s wizarding world. The genus is not fully understood, even ...

The Continental Divide is the hydrological boundary between watersheds that drain into the Pacific and those that drain into the Atlantic. It runs from the Bering Strait in Alaska to the Strait of ...

On the Scottish island of Iona, two saints were trying to found a monastery. Every day, the workmen would lay the stones of the foundation. Every morning, they would return to find the last day’s work ...

When the political climate gets exceedingly earnest, some radicals find that the best way to attract interest is to shock with ambiguously ironic rhetoric. That might seem like a product of the age of ...