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Psychology suggests that boredom is a signal. Understanding its cause can help us decide how to respond.

The Vietnam War became a testing ground for private contractors and military systems that still shape conflict today.

Political and religious leaders battled for influence through the education of Japanese immigrant children.

The hit musical became a battleground for competing ideas about capitalism, artistic value, and commercial theater.

Nineteenth-century Paris tackled public urination with ornate pissoirs. American reformers later turned toilets into a temperance cause.

Autism researcher Patrick Dwyer examines how the neurodiversity movement is influencing autism research and clinical decision-making.

A neighborhood beyond the Tiber became home to generations of Jewish and Syrian migrants who reshaped the imperial capital.

Turn a research question into an effective search strategy that delivers more useful scholarly results.

Letters to lovers, siblings, artists, gods, and enemies by Diane Wakoski, Yusef Komunyakaa, Kazim Ali, June Jordan, and more.

Created after the Big Dig, the Rose Kennedy Greenway shows how cities attempt to heal the scars of highway construction.