During a national miners strike, LGBT activists became unexpected allies, united against the Thatcher government.

A guided tour of selected luminaries of astronomy, from Ancient Greece to today.

When the author tried to defend a woman from charges of solicitation, and then testified against the arresting officer, the NYPD struck back.

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

Buried within Adelante is evidence of a fleeting attempt at prison reform and oversight in Connecticut. Is history repeating itself?

"Whatever Otherness weeds may possess, it is an outcome of human artifice.”

Would you be willing to play games to get out of debt? Would you sell your organs?

Many scholars contrast linear and cyclical time and note that cycles were an important part of Maya concepts of temporal reality.

Abraham Lincoln proclaimed freedom for enslaved people in America on January 1, 1863. Today, we've annotated the Emancipation Proclamation for readers.

Teetotalers in the early British temperance movement signed temperance pledges like those in The Livesey Collection on JSTOR.