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.

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

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 ...

Sporting a winged tiara and star-spangled bustier and gifted with superhuman strength and flight, Darna could be called the Filipino version of Wonder Woman. But unlike the Amazon princess, she’s also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What colors best suit your complexion, scientifically speaking? As historian Charlotte Nicklas writes, that’s something that women in England and America started asking in the 1850s, thanks largely to ...

Women’s paid work in medieval Europe was limited, to say the least. The options were essentially: domestic service, retail, midwifery, spinning, and sex work. None of these was considered skilled ...