What happened when the Beat Generation bumped up against the popular culture they were rebelling against? Historian Stephen Petrus writes about how the youth subculture was turned into a commodity.

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

In the early- to mid-nineteenth century, Americans heard different things depending on their ideological predispositions, and perhaps to some extent we still do. After all, this summer many of us will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

On February 11, 1916, Russian-born activist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City. She was about to give a lecture on family planning. Such talk was considered illegal under the 1873 Comstock Act ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The 2006-7 drought in the greater Fertile Crescent—present-day Iraq, southeastern Turkey, western Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and parts of Egypt—was the longest and most severe drought ...