In an era of laissez-faire governance, a growing number of federal and state regulations were justified as necessary to protect public health and morality.

Fictional representations of procedures and providers mirror—but may also undermine—popular attitudes on abortion.

Analyses including both static and dynamic costs can help us make better decisions while developing technologies to address climate change.

National security, borders and migration, climate change and global food supplies, war and terrorism. These make up the academic field of security studies.

Security studies originated in the era of Cold War geopolitics and decolonization. This annotated bibliography introduces readers to scholarship in the field.

Cultural systems have historically defined sex segregation. The imperfect science has led to failures in policing gender in sports.

Free to Be... You and Me was meant to help rear a generation free of sexist stereotypes. Fifty years on, some of its well-intentioned messages are worn around the edges.

Tomatoes, once believed by Americans to be poisonous, became an unquestioned staple of a healthy diet thanks to doctors and popular cookbooks.

A study on the criminalization of abortion in the late 1800s through the 1940s reveals that the law was often used against working-class women.

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