In 1964, Dylan decided that he wanted to make a different kind of music.

The stigmatization of immigrants through the language of disease and contagion is as American as apple pie.

To “live in the whole world of music” was all the influential, experimental composer wanted—and did, even while imprisoned at San Quentin.

Canine distemper became a major threat in Great Britain after World War I. Saving the nation’s dogs depended on an imperfect collaboration.

Well-researched stories from Mongabay, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

We may think of the apartment building as the ultimate symbol of modern urban living, but as a typology, it dates to antiquity.

Bong Joon-ho’s films interrogate the ways modern Korean culture has been shaped by the post-war relationship between the United States and South Korea.

Why the ancient Egyptians did—or did not—recommended strapping a clay crocodile to an aching head.

The weeks Weil spent working in French factories helped to develop her ideas about the meaning and value of labor.

Born a free Black man, William Still kept the books and managed the money for the Philadelphia branch of the Underground Railroad.