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Victorian values and Anglo(phile) aesthetics shaped the city’s infrastructure and architecture in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

NBA player and coach Bill Russell was a leader and legend, fighting for civil rights even as racists harassed him from the sidelines.

Harnessing the power of quirk to engage students and inspire research in an online learning environment.

Crowned rex Poloniae, King of Poland, as a ten-year-old, Jadwiga soon had a decision to make: should she marry for love, or should she marry for politics?

We know the sirens of Homeric Greece sang a seductive song, but what did they look like, and why are they going viral on social media?

A deeply ingrained interest in stolen objects and their recovery reflects our collective uncertainty over how we value art.

The laws around search and seizure as they apply to average people, explained by Rafael Torres, an incarcerated Inmate Counsel Substitute in Louisiana.

Author of Undoing Drugs and NYT columnist Szalavitz talks history, science, media shifts, politics, and how the US might mitigate its overdose crisis.

In 1968, a group of Boston University students published a handbook about abortion and birth control for their peers. Over half a million copies were distributed.