From antiquity to the present, the laws governing the wearing of lipstick have been shaped by gender, class, safety, and religion.

Well-researched stories from The Atlantic, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

In the hot summer of 1826, the British people—including science fiction author, Mary Shelley—embraced a fake and frozen Roger Dodsworth.

An introduction to the histories of imperialism and the writings of those who grappled with its oppressions and legacies in the twentieth century.

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In the 1970s, a time of mass deinstitutionalization, former patients came together to found the Psychiatric Inmates Liberation Movement.

Predicting the effects of introducing a species into an ecosystem is difficult. Mitigating those effects later is even more so. Just ask Australia.

A historian’s childhood visit to the Texas monument prompts questions about history, memory, and multiculturalism.

Posters and postcards showcasing unique destinations and sights in the United States helped homogenize the tourist landscape of the early twentieth century.

Organized in the aftermath of the 1965 Watts uprising, the music festival showed that something powerful was happening in the Black community.