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.

Eighteen stone cairns were set up in 1926 to mark the route purportedly taken by Angus McMillan into Gunaikurnai Country in 1840. Should they remain?

Reports on the May 1960 downing of an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union offer a case study in Cold War posturing and misdirection.

Beneath his poems lay a lifelong devotion to magic, divination, and a visionary system that shaped his most prophetic work.

In the New Deal era, New York City banned street musicians, classifying them as beggars. Some New Yorkers fought back.

Why the social, political, and emotional dimensions of public spaces matter, and how people themselves play a central role in creating them.

Why is so much of the “public space” in cities actually private, and who benefits from it being that way?