In the eighteenth century, doctors recognized melancholy as a disease endemic to groups forcibly displaced from their homes, particularly enslaved Africans.

Generally lazy, often friendly, the dogs of India know how to relax.

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

The idea of offering remuneration to women for breastfeeding—even their own children—wasn’t unusual in late medieval and early modern Europe.

The 1973 World Festival of Youth and Students highlighted the paradoxes inherent in the East German socialist project.

Queer Yiddishkeit challenges the notion that Yiddish is inherently heteronormative or conservative.

The majority of national park visitors—roughly seventy-eight percent—are white? Why, and why does that need to change?

California citrus growers drew on mass-printing techniques and advances in color lithography to create distinctive brands for their boxes.

Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.

Same-sex marriages, in all possible configurations and with all possible motivations, have taken place throughout the history of the United States.