The first Japanese delegation to the US captivated crowds and confounded expectations, as the press cast its samurai as “effeminate.”

Before it was a cult classic, the Warner Bros. film began as a 1968 children’s novel by Ted Hughes, though the book and movie tell notably different tales.

To understand current mass burning events better, scientists are turning to the phenomenon known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly.

More than an herb, za’atar shapes, narrates, and anchors identity and political dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Sinai Peninsula.

Welch’s new album continues the band's long-running dialogue with magic, myth, and modern witchcraft.

Takagi Kyōzō makes heavy use of natural imagery to decry the miserable status of the settler colonist population in Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

Behind the transformative star photographs of the 1880s lay a complex collaboration between astronomers and engravers.

Medieval European elites inherited the classical concept of friendship as something possible only for men. Christine de Pizan and Margery Kempe beg to differ.

A selection of stories that chronicle our complicated notions of time.

The viciousness of Argentina’s Dirty War resulted not only from orders from above but from ideological buy-in at the ground level.