The files of Paris police from the late nineteenth century reveal the tumultuous politics of the time through the graffiti recorded in them.

A 1763 massacre by colonial settlers exposed the irreconcilable contradictions of conquest by people concerned with civility.

In 1980, The Grammys gave disco its own category, but the genre was already receding into invisibility.

People in Kazakhstan have been protesting energy prices, and met with violence by the government. What does Bitcoin have to do with it?

Or, why the best laid plans of urban design sometimes go awry.

Snowmobiles were invented around the same time as wheeled transportation was becoming a robust industry.

For flowering plants in the Arctic, cold temperatures don't mean death. But warmer temperatures might.

A correctional officer’s history of 19th century prisons and modern-day parallels. From Sing Sing to suicide watch, torture treads a fine line.

Cassava can grow in hot climates with little rainfall. It may be the "root crop of the century."

The man who introduced mesmerism to the US was a slave-owner from Guadeloupe, where planters were experimenting with “magnetizing” their enslaved people.