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 ...

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

“The world is mud-luscious” wrote e.e. cummings, and that wasn’t even the half of it. Life as we know it actually depends on mud. International Mud Day, an effort to get children outside and more ...

After decades of presenting the archetypal American consumer as white and female, advertisers are slowly broadening their imagery to include more diversity. But, as the scholar Marilyn Maness Mehaffy ...

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

Memories of talk” in after-the-fact minutes are as suspect as any other memories. “One problem with such recollections is ...

Britain’s most famous intellectuals of the day faced-off over the issue of Jamaica Governor Edward John Eyre’s declaration of martial law on the island in 1865. Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Matthew ...

How did the National Geographic Society end up becoming, in the words of historian Susan Schulten, “one of the most ubiquitous sources of information and images about the world in American culture” ...

The recent news about the stunning decline in North American bird populations should remind us that we’ve been in similar situations before. A century ago, laws were enacted to stop the wanton ...

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 ...

In 1940, author John Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts chartered a fishing boat named the Western Flyer to explore the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. The book they ...