In the aftermath of tragedies, it's easy to focus on the assignation of blame. But how well do we understand the causes of crushing crowds?

The Ancestral Puebloans were driven from their homes in the American Southwest by a combination of factors rather than a single cause.

Well-researched stories from Sapiens, Electric Literature, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The number of children acting like adults on stage reflects how conflicted nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans were about the definition of childhood.

Finding valuable treasure underwater is more complicated than “finders keepers, losers weepers.” Competing maritime laws govern the recovered riches.

In a dramatic act of civil disobedience, more than three hundred French women publicly confessed to having had an illegal abortion.

The Pan-American Highway began a century ago with a vision of unfettered motor-vehicle access between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego. What happened to the dream?

Fairy tales, many of which associate women’s beauty with goodness, act as scripts that pass along specific messages about women’s bodies and attractiveness.

When different cultures meet, their languages, foods, and songs mix and change—and so do their monsters.

An association of Montreal-based artists, the Beaver Hall Group embraced the free-spirited Jazz Age in their work, their habits, and their lifestyles.