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.

Invented in 1922, water-skiing quickly became shorthand for American ideas on beauty, athleticism, and affluence.

Historians are rethinking the claim that the Panic of 1907 in the United States helped spark the Mexican Revolution.

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Proposed as a compromise to ensure the ratification of the new US Constitution, the Bill of Rights has become a critical protector of civil liberties.

The mask, like the veil, is seen by the anxious West as concealing a racialized female subject in need of liberation from a backward culture.

The Civilization video games may not convey actual history very well, but they’ve encouraged generations of young people to learn more about the past.