The peoples of Middle Earth weren’t just a product of Tolkien’s creative mind; they were shaped by the anti-Jewish culture that surrounded him.

Wilbur and Orville Wright may not have been “first in flight,” but they were first in taking care of their nieces and nephews on the weekends.

Long-playing records ushered in the era of the soundtrack, but they also made room for something else—the concept album.

A hundred years after the cosmopolitan city burnt to the ground, the truth about who started the fire and why remains a point of contention.

In country that followed a time-keeping system with variable hours, the fixed-hour clock of the Europeans had only symbolic value.

For pioneering journalist Bessie Beatty, women’s suffrage and the plight of labor were linked inextricably.

Produced by the master entertainer P. T. Barnum, a melodrama about the dangers of alcohol was the first show to run for a hundred performances in New York City.

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

When we examine the subject, foreground, and background of an image separately, the nuances of the scene emerge.

The complicated system that determines the High Holy Days is a relatively new creation, dating to around 350 CE.