Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Eos, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The popular musical poses Alexander Hamilton as a symbol of the value of immigrants brought to America, but over time, his party became increasingly xenophobic.

How important are labor unions for combating wage inequality in the United States?

A bastion of both the Old and New Right, Orange County in the late 1970s seems an unlikely place for punk rockers.

For both the Shawnee of North America and the Sámi of northern Europe, alcohol provided by colonizing powers was a symbolic and practical political issue.

Our best stories about workers' rights, labor unions, and international movements to improve working conditions, from the factory to the farm.

Used heavily in early medicine and at times for opposing aims, the pomegranate shows a marked versatility in its cultural connotations and connections.

Let’s check in with Anne Shakespeare, née Hathaway, about whom so little is known.

Although the tradition has largely faded in the Western church, Saint Christopher sported a canine head through much of Christian history.

The long debate over spawning habits and genetics belies the problems caused by categorizing fish with a term associated with finance and breeding.