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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The Germans began firing on Paris again on the fifth of August 1918. Mary Josephine Booth was familiar with the sound of the air raid sirens by then. If they came at night, she would jump out of her ...

The right-wing movements that emerged around the world in the mid-twentieth century were both highly nationalistic and willing to work across borders. And, as Michele Monserrati, a scholar of modern ...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, before the rise of public libraries, many people in remote parts of the United States got their hands on new books thanks to traveling salespeople. As ...

The University of Wyoming is home to an archive of undergarments. And its collection of unmentionables—from the simple chemises of the Civil War era to the neon nylon stockings of the go-go years—is ...

Molly Crabapple’s new best-seller, Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund tells the nearly lost history of the “most influential Jewish political force in eastern Europe ...