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Research suggests compact housing may normalize economic insecurity rather than address the roots of the affordability crisis.

In the American Philippines, officials used vagrancy laws to police same-sex relations while avoiding explicit bans.

The tangled history of an invasive plant and a scientist’s troubling quest to engineer a more efficient natural world.

A newly digitized archive traces a roller-skating queer icon from Pride marches and discos to AIDS activism.

As automation transformed agriculture, advertisements increasingly celebrated physical strength and traditional masculine ideals.

A fur-farming experiment unleashed a prolific rodent—and sparked one of the rare successful eradications of an invasive species.

A postwar expedition to Bikini Atoll helped confirm Darwin’s theory of coral reef formation and reshaped the future of marine science.

Starving families were forced to earn aid by carving roads through rock, fields, and mountainsides.

While George Washington struggled to obtain reliable maps, British readers could consult this remarkable 1776 atlas.

For more than a century, foreign trips have reflected America's changing role in the world—and presidents' political priorities.